Connectivity modelling of areas closed to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems in the northwest Atlantic
ABSTRACT Over the course of the past decade, in response to United Nations General Assembly resolutions calling for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs), the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization has closed 14 areas around the high-seas portion of Grand Bank and Flemish Cap to protect deep-sea coral and sponge habitats from impacts by bottom-contact fishing gears. Structural and functional connectivity for those areas were not explicitly considered in the area-selection process. We applied a particle-tracking model in each of four seasons to produce dispersal trajectories... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Schlagwörter: | Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems / Connectivity / Flemish Cap / Grand Banks / Particle tracking models / Protected area networks / European Union (EU) / Horizon 2020 / Grant Agreement No 679849 / Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation / SponGES |
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Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28657258 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.11.007 |