Portal:Marine Biodiversity/Content

What is Marine Biodiversity?

• Evolution and meaning

Definitions

• Genetic diversity
• Species diversity
• Ecosystem diversity
• Functional diversity
• Ecosystem functioning
• Cultural and economic understanding of biodiversity

Measurement

Sampling

• Sampling tools

Distribution

• Biodiversity hotspots

Why is Marine biodiversity important?

• Resilience and resistance
• Disturbance prevention
• Nutrient cycling
• Gas and climate regulation
• Bioremediation of waste
• Biologically mediated habitat
• Food provision
• Raw materials
• Leisure
• Cultural values
• Information service
• Non-use value
• Option use value

Evolution

• Number of marine species
• Species lists

European marine biodiversity

• European marine biodiversity sites
• Geographic variation
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Baltic Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • North Sea
  • Black Sea
• Ecosystem variation
• Variation of valuation of biodiversity
  • Cultural value variation
  • Economic values variation
  • Biological Valuation
    • Conservation and restoration of marine biodiversity involving biological valuation

Marine Ecosystems

*Rocky Shores

• Sandy Shores
• Continental Shelf
• Open oceans
  • Marine Plankton
• Deep Sea
  • Abyssal Deep Sea Fish
  • Review of Hadal Environments
• Sea ice ecosystems
• Coral reefs
• Seagrass meadows
• Mangroves
• Salt marshes
• Estuaries

Threats to Marine Biodiversity

• Over exploitation
  • Effects of fisheries on European marine biodiversity
• Pollution
  • Marine Eutrophication
  • Marine Biofouling
• Habitat destruction and fragmentation
• Non-native species invasions
• Climate change
• Maritime Traffic
• Species extinction

Marine Biodiversity research

• Global Patterns
  • Ecological and latitudinal aspects
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem function
  • Food webs
• Genetic biodiversity
  • Role of secondary metabolites
• Species and Ecosystems
  • Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  • Diversity and classification of marine benthic algae

Conservation

• Conservation policy and legislation
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • EU Common Fisheries Policy
  • NATURA 2000
  • Habitats Directive
    • SAC
  • Bird Directive
    • SPA
  • MPAs (Marine Protected Areas)
  • ICZM (Integrated Coastal Zone Management)
  • EM (Ecosystem based Management)