A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience

A. Crise (1) , H. Kaberi (2) , J. Ruiz (3) , A. Zatsepin (4) , E. Arashkevich (4) , M. Giani (1) , A.P. Karageorgis (2) , L. Prieto (3) , M. Pantazi (2) , D. Gonzalez-Fernandez (5) , M. Ribera D’alcalà (6) , V. Tornero (5, 6) , V. Vassilopoulou (2) , Xavier Durrieu de Madron (7) , Cecile Guieu (8) , P. Puig (9) , A. Zenetos (2) , B. Andral (10) , D. Angel (11) , D. Altukhov (12) , Sakina-Dorothée Ayata (8) , Y. Aktan (13) , E. Balcioğlu (13) , Fabio Benedetti (8) , M. Bouchoucha (14) , M.-C. Buia (6) , J.-F. Cadiou (15) , M. Canals (16) , M. Chakroun (17) , E. Christou (2) , M.G. Christidis (2) , G. Civitarese (1) , V. Coatu (18) , M. Corsini-Foka (2) , S. Cozzi (19) , A. Deidun (20) , A. Dell’aquila (21) , A. Dogrammatzi (2) , C. Dumitrache (21) , D. Edelist (11) , O. Ettahiri (22) , S. Fonda-Umani (23) , S. Gana (17) , F. Galgani (10) , Stéphane Gasparini (24) , A. Giannakourou (2) , M.-T. Gomoiu (18) , A. Gubanova (12) , A.-C. Gücü (25) , Ö. Gürses (25) , G. Hanke (5) , I. Hatzianestis (2) , B. Herut (26) , R. Hone (27) , E. Huertas (3) , J.-O. Irisson (8) , M. İşinibilir (13) , Julie Jimenez (28) , S. Kalogirou (2) , K. Kapiris (2) , V. Karamfilov (29) , S. Kavadas (2) , Ç. Keskin (13) , A.E. Kideyş (25) , M. Kocak (25) , G. Kondylatos (2) , C. Kontogiannis (2) , R. Kosyan (4) , P. Koubbi (30) , G. Kušpilić (31) , R. La Ferla (19) , L. Langone (19) , S. Laroche (10) , L. Lazar (18) , E. Lefkaditou (2) , I.E. Lemeshko (32) , A. Machias (2) , A. Malej (33) , M.-G. Mazzocchi (6) , V. Medinets (34) , N. Mihalopoulos (35) , S. Miserocchi (19) , S. Moncheva (36) , V. Mukhanov (37) , G. Oaie (38) , A. Oros (18) , A.A. Öztürk (13) , B. Öztürk (13) , M. Panayotova (36) , A. Prospathopoulos (2) , G. Radu (18) , V. Raykov (36) , P. Reglero (39) , G. Reygondeau (40) , N. Rougeron (10) , B. Salihoglu (8) , A. Sanchez-Vidal (16) , G. Sannino (41) , C. Santinelli (42) , D. Secrieru (38) , G. Shapiro (27) , N. Simboura (2) , T. Shiganova (4) , M. Sprovieri (19) , K. Stefanova (36) , N. Streftaris (2) , V. Tirelli (1) , M. Tom (26) , B. Topaloğlu (13) , N.E. Topçu (13) , K. Tsagarakis (2) , C. Tsangaris (2) , G. Tserpes (2) , S. Tuğrul (25) , Z. Uysal (25) , D. Vasile (10) , K. Violaki (43) , J. Xu (44) , A. Yüksek (13) , E. Papathanassiou (2)

1 OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e di Oceanografia Sperimentale
2 HCMR - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
3 ICMAN - Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucia [Cádiz, Espagne]
4 SIO - P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
5 IES - JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability
6 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
7 CEFREM - Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditérranéens
8 LOV - Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche
9 ICM - Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar [Barcelona]
10 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
11 University of Haifa [Haifa]
12 A.O. Kovalevskiy Institute of Biology of Southern Seas [Sevastopol, Ukraine]
13 Istanbul University
14 LRS - Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface
15 LRV - Laboratoire de Robotique de Versailles
16 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
17 SAROST SA [Tunis, Tunisie]
18 INCD GeoEcoMar - Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Geologie si Geoecologie Marina
19 CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma]
20 University of Malta [Malta]
21 ENEA - Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile
22 INRH - Institut National de Recherche Halieutique [Casablanca, Maroc]
23 CoNISma - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare [Rome, Italie]
24 LOV - Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche
25 METU - Middle East Technical University [Ankara]
26 IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
27 Plymouth University
28 LBE - Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement [Narbonne]
29 BAS - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
30 BOREA - Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques
31 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
32 MHI - Marine Hydrophysical Institute
33 NIB - National Institute of Biology [Ljubljana]
34 Odessa National I.I.Mechnikov University
35 ECPL - Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory [Heraklion]
36 IO-BAS - Institute of Oceanology of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
37 LPMTM - Laboratoire des Propriétés Mécaniques et Thermodynamiques des Matériaux
38 National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (Romania)
39 Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Málaga.
40 EME - UMR 212 EME "écosystèmes marins exploités"
41 ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
42 IBF - Istituto di Biofisica [Pisa]
43 UOC - University of Crete [Heraklion]
44 HUST - Huazhong University of Science and Technology [Wuhan]

PERSEUS project aims to identify the most relevant pressures exerted on the ecosystems of the Southern European Seas (SES), highlighting knowledge and data gaps that endanger the achievement of SES Good Environmental Status (GES) as mandated by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). A complementary approach has been adopted, by a meta-analysis of existing literature on pressure/impact/knowledge gaps summarized in tables related to the MSFD descriptors, discriminating open waters from coastal areas. A comparative assessment of the Initial Assessments (IAs) for five SES countries has been also independently performed. The comparison between meta-analysis results and IAs shows similarities for coastal areas only. Major knowledge gaps have been detected for the biodiversity, marine food web, marine litter and underwater noise descriptors. The meta-analysis also allowed the identification of additional research themes targeting research topics that are requested to the achievement of GES.

Keywords: Southern European Seas; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; PERSEUS project; Initial Assessment; Good Environmental Status

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Oceanography

A. Crise, H. Kaberi, J. Ruiz, A. Zatsepin, E. Arashkevich, et al.. A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2015, 95 (1), pp.28-39. ⟨10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.024⟩. ⟨hal-01169407⟩