• Indicator-Based Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity – Lessons from 10 Case Studies across the European Seas 

      Uusitalo, Laura; Blanchet, Hugues; Andersen, Jesper Harbo; Beauchard, Olivier; Berg, Torsten; Bianchelli, Silvia; Cantafaro, Annalucia; Carstensen, Jacob; Carugati, Laura; Cochrane, Sabine K.J.; Danovaro, Roberto; Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina; Karvinen, Ville; Moncheva, Snejana; Murray, Ciaran; Neto, Joao M.; Nygård, Henrik; Pantazi, Maria; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Simboura, Nomiki; Srebaliene, Greta; Uyarra, María C.; Borja, Angel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the environmental status of European marine waters to be assessed using biodiversity as 1 out of 11 descriptors, but the complexity of marine biodiversity and its large span ...
    • Overview of Integrative Assessment of Marine Systems: The Ecosystem Approach in Practice 

      Borja, Angel; Elliott, Michael; Andersen, Jesper H; Berg, Torsten; Carstensen, Jacob; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina; Korpinen, Samuli; Lowndes, Julia S. Stewart; Martin, Georg; Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Traditional and emerging human activities are increasingly putting pressures on marine ecosystems and impacting their ability to sustain ecological and human communities. To evaluate the health status of marine ecosystems ...
    • Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status 

      Borja, Angel; Prins, Theo C.; Simboura, Nomiki; Andersen, Jesper Harbo; Berg, Torsten; Marques, Joao-Carlos; Neto, Joao M.; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Reker, Johnny; Teixeira, Heliana; Uusitalo, Laura (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Assessing the environmental status of marine ecosystems is useful when communicating key messages to policy makers or the society, reducing the complex information of the multiple ecosystem and biodiversity components and ...
    • What Is Marine Biodiversity? Towards Common Concepts and Their Implications for Assessing Biodiversity Status 

      Cochrane, Sabine K.J.; Andersen, Jesper H; Berg, Torsten; Blanchet, Hugues; Borja, Ángel; Carstensen, Jacob; Elliott, Michael; Hummel, Herman; Niquil, Nathalie; Renaud, Paul E (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Biodiversity’ is one of the most common keywords used in environmental sciences, spanning from research to management, natureconservation, and consultancy. Despite this, our understanding of the underlying concepts varies ...