MERCES: Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (H2020 funded project)

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1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
2 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.26830v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Ecology, Marine Biology
Keywords
degraded marine habitats, shallow soft/hard bottom habitats, deep-sea ecosystems, ecological restoration
Copyright
© 2018 Danovaro et al.
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Cite this article
Danovaro R, Gambi C. 2018. MERCES: Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas (H2020 funded project) PeerJ Preprints 6:e26830v1

Abstract

MERCES “Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas” (GA 689518) is the first H2020 European project focused on the ecological restoration of degraded marine habitats and the recovering of their biodiversity and ecosystem services. Specific aims include a) improving existing, and developing new, restoration actions of degraded marine habitats; b) increasing the adaptation of EU degraded marine habitats to global change; c) enhancing marine ecosystem resilience and services; d) conducting cost-benefit analyses for marine restoration measures; e) creating new industrial targets and job opportunities. To achieve these objectives MERCES created a multi-disciplinary consortium (28 Partners from 16 Countries) with skills in marine ecology, restoration, policy, socio-economics, knowledge transfer, dissemination and communication.

Author Comment

This is an abstract which has been accepted for the WCMB