• Habitat features and their influence on the restoration potential of marine habitats in Europe 

      Bekkby, Trine; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Fiorentino, Dario; McOwen, Chris J.; Rinde, Eli; Boström, Christoffer; Carreiro-Silva, Marina; Linares, Cristina; Andersen, Guri Sogn; Bengil, Elizabeth Grace Tunka; Bilan, Meri; Cebrian, Emma; Cerrano, Carlo; Donovaro, Roberto; Fagerli, Camilla With; Fraschetti, Simonetta; Gagnon, Karine; Gambi, Cristina; Gundersen, Hege; Kipson, Silvija; Kotta, Jonne; Morato, Telmo; Ojaveer, Henn; Ramirez-Llodra, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      To understand the restoration potential of degraded habitats, it is important to know the key processes and habitat features that allow for recovery after disturbance. As part of the EU (Horizon 2020) funded MERCES project, ...
    • Habitat mapping in the European Seas - is it fit for purpose in the marine restoration agenda? 

      Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Smit, Christopher J; Sevastou, Katerina; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Dailianis, Thanos; Bekkby, Trine; Fiorentino, Dario; McOwen, Chris J.; Amaro, Teresa; Bengil, Elizabeth Grace Tunka; Bilan, Meri; Boström, Christoffer; Carreiro-Silva, Marina; Cebrian, Emma; Cerrano, Carlo; Danovaro, Roberto; Fraschetti, Simonetta; Gagnon, Karine; Gambi, Cristina; Grehan, Anthony; Hereu, Bernat; Kipson, Silvija; Kotta, Jonne; Linares, Cristina; Morato, Telmo; Ojaveer, Henn; Orav-Kotta, Helen; Sarà, Antonio; Scrimgeour, Rachael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      As habitat mapping is crucially important for developing effective management and restoration plans, the aim of this work was to produce a census of available map resources at the European scale focusing on: a) key marine ...
    • Human activities and resultant pressures on key European marine habitats: An analysis of mapped resources 

      Dailianis, Thanos; Smith, Christopher J.; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Sevastou, Katerina; Bekkby, Trine; Bilan, Meri; Billett, David; Boström, Christoffer; Carreiro-Silva, Marina; Danovaro, Roberto; Fraschetti, Simonetta; Gagnon, Karine; Gambi, Cristina; Grehan, Anthony; Kipson, Silvija; Kotta, Jonne; McOwen, Chris J.; Morato, Telmo; Ojaveer, Henn; Pham, Christopher K.; Scrimgeour, Rachael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Human activities exert a wide range of pressures on marine ecosystems, often resulting in the loss of species and degradation of habitats. If effective policies and management practices to restore past damage and reduce ...
    • 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 ...
    • Investigating societal attitudes towards marine ecosystem restoration 

      O Connor, Eamonn; Hynes, Stephen; Chen, Wenting; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Smith, Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Globally, direct and indirect human impacts have led to the widespread degradation of marine ecosystems. The resulting loss of habitat and marine biodiversity has led to the increased impetus for marine ecosystem restoration ...
    • 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 ...