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2021-04-01
<p>Major knowledge gaps and a lack of refined models and cost-effective tools to monitor and predict<br>
biodiversity delay agreement and implementation of biodiversity management policies at the highest<br>
levels. These delays will be reduced through cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder trans-Atlantic datasharing<br>
and integration of ocean mixing and food supply into biodiversity maps. The main vision of<br>
WP3 Biodiversity and Biogeography is to conduct pilot studies to validate robust and cost-effective<br>
techniques to minimise uncertainty in deep ocean biodiversity and biogeography assessment.<br>
At international levels, the Global Open Oceans and Deep Seabed (GOODS) classification scheme is a<br>
decision-support tool to help safeguard marine biodiversity, support the ecosystem approach, marine<br>
spatial management and the design of MPA networks in national waters and in the international High<br>
Seas, thereby helping nations implement global policies enshrined by UNCLOS (e.g. ABNJs), the FAO<br>
(e.g. VMEs) and the CBD (e.g. EBSAs). GOODS integrates layers of physical and biological information<br>
to delineate biogeographic provinces as entities of flora, fauna and environmental settings. It was later<br>
adapted for ABNJ waters >800 m deep, delineating a “Northern Atlantic boreal” and a “North Atlantic”<br>
province based on distinct patterns of particulate organic carbon flux and water temperatures.<br>
However, the adapted scheme now needs further refinement in light of policy drivers such as the<br>
VMEs and EBSAs as it lacks input from structurally complex seabed environments such as CWC reefs,<br>
sponge grounds and hydrothermal vents that may also meet EBSA and VME criteria. It could also be<br>
substantially improved with input from the latest ocean models integrating horizontal and vertical<br>
mixing as water mass characteristics are critical for GOODS boundaries and for species distribution<br>
models (SDMs) to predict occurrences of cold-water corals, sponges and fish. Yet even SDMs that<br>
integrate larval tracking are still overly simplistic and inaccurate, and at best they use coarse estimates<br>
of surface primary production to proxy seafloor food supply.<br>
In this deliverable, ATLAS used a combination of techniques, along with the best available information<br>
along with knowledge developments made by WP1 and WP2 and new data gathered by WP3 to<br>
improve the understanding of deep-sea the biodiversity and biogeographic patterns of sensitive deepwater<br>
ecosystems and deep-sea fish in the North Atlantic and forecast changes under IPCC 21st century<br>
scenarios of water mass structure and ocean currents.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4658502
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ATLAS Deliverable 3.3: Biodiversity, biogeography and GOODS classification system under current climate conditions and future IPCC scenarios
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