| Title | ATLAS: a trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe |
| Download | Download (whole publication) |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Grehan, A J; Roberts, J M; ATLAS Consortium |
| Source | Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; by Todd, B J ; Brown, C J; Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8295, 2017 p. 51, https://doi.org/10.4095/305851  Open Access |
| Links | GeoHab 2017
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| Links | ATLAS
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | 2017 GeoHab: Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping; Dartmouth, NS; CA; May 1-4, 2017 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Program and abstracts: 2017
GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Eastern offshore region |
| NTS | 1; 2; 3; 10; 11; 13; 14; 15; 16; 27 |
| Area | Atlantic Ocean; Europe; Canada; United States of America |
| Lat/Long WENS | -80.0000 22.0000 73.0000 17.0000 |
| Subjects | Nature and Environment; mapping techniques; oceanography; marine environments; coastal studies; conservation; marine organisms; marine ecology; resource management; biological communities; environmental
studies; ecosystems; deep basins; climate; planning; Biology; Climate change |
| Program | Offshore Geoscience |
| Released | 2017 09 26 |
| Abstract | The ATLAS EU Horizon 2020 project, running from 2016 to 2020, has created a dynamic new partnership to assess the Atlantic's deep-sea ecosystems and Marine Genetic Resources and create the integrated
and adaptive planning products needed for sustainable Blue Growth. ATLAS is gathering diverse new information on sensitive Atlantic ecosystems (including Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and Ecologically or Biologically Sensitive Areas (EBSAs)) to
produce a step-change in our understanding of their connectivity, functioning and responses to future changes in human use and ocean climate. Fully integrated spatial planning products built on basin and regional scales are needed to allow
stakeholders to explore, and respond to, alternate scenarios of ocean dynamics and cross-sectoral Blue Growth.
The EU FP7 MESMA (Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas) framework is being applied in case studies spanning the deep
waters of the EU, US, Canada and ABNJs (NAFO and NEAFC regulatory areas) against the backdrop of potential climate change, to develop marine spatial planning scenarios to support basin scale ecosystem based management. Initial plans for each case
study are presented. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The sixteenth annual GeoHab Conference was held this year (2017) at the Waterfront Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,
Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 305851 |
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