• Gaps in current Baltic Sea environmental monitoring – Science versus management perspectives 

      Kahlert, Maria; Eilola, Kari; Mack, Leoni; Meissner, Kristian; Sandin, Leonard; Strömberg, Helena; Uusitalo, Laura; Viktorsson, Lena; Liess, Antonia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Legislations and commitments regulate Baltic Sea status assessments and monitoring. These assessments suffer from monitoring gaps that need prioritization. We used three sources of information; scientific articles, project ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...