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The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H8

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: Iberia-Biscay-Ireland

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H7

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H9

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: Baltic Sea

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H10

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: Mediterranean Sea

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H22

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: Global

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H22

Partners:

Technical University of Denmark

Region: Mediterranean Sea

The demersal fish are those species that spend a fraction of their lives in close association with the seabed, feeding primarily on bottom organisms. A typical example of a demersal fish is cod (Gadus morhua). Demersal fish are often an important target of fisheries in marine shelf ecosystems. Demersal fish act as couplers of pelagic and benthic energy pathways.

Datasets ID: H21

Partners: Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

Benthic flora are essential elements in benthic-pelagic coupling and in carbon sequestration (blue carbon). Besides uptake of inorganic carbon and production of oxygen, the most important species of flora are habitat builders that often help stabilise sediment (e.g., seagrasses) and provide shelter, spawning, and nursery ground for multiple species, including some of commercial interest. Moreover, benthic flora typically supports high associated biodiversity.

Datasets ID: H22

Partners: OGS

Region: Mediterranean Sea

Benthic flora are essential elements in benthic-pelagic coupling and in carbon sequestration (blue carbon). Besides uptake of inorganic carbon and production of oxygen, the most important species of flora are habitat builders that often help stabilise sediment (e.g., seagrasses) and provide shelter, spawning, and nursery ground for multiple species, including some of commercial interest. Moreover, benthic flora typically supports high associated biodiversity. 

Datasets ID: H40

Partners: NIOZ

Region: Black Sea

The flux of organic carbon to the bottom critically drives benthic ecosystems through the benthic food chain, diagenesis, and quantity of carbon sequestration through burial. The difficulty of in-situ determination greatly limits Information on carbon flow to the bottom at the ecosystem scale. Models can provide important information on carbon flux to the bottom at ecosystem scale and on its spatial and temporal variation.

Datasets ID: H6

Partners: OGS

Region: Mediterranean Sea

The flux of organic carbon to the bottom critically drives benthic ecosystems through the benthic food chain, diagenesis, and quantity of carbon sequestration through burial. The difficulty of in-situ determination greatly limits Information on carbon flow to the bottom at the ecosystem scale. Models can provide important information on carbon flux to the bottom at ecosystem scale and on its spatial and temporal variation.

Datasets ID: H3

Partners: UoL

Region: Black Sea

The flux of organic carbon to the bottom critically drives benthic ecosystems through the benthic food chain, diagenesis, and quantity of carbon sequestration through burial. The difficulty of in-situ determination greatly limits Information on carbon flow to the bottom at the ecosystem scale. Models can provide important information on carbon flux to the bottom at ecosystem scale and on its spatial and temporal variation.

Datasets ID: H2

Partners: UKMO

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

The flux of organic carbon to the bottom critically drives benthic ecosystems through the benthic food chain, diagenesis, and quantity of carbon sequestration through burial. The difficulty of in-situ determination greatly limits Information on carbon flow to the bottom at the ecosystem scale. Models can provide important information on carbon flux to the bottom at ecosystem scale and on its spatial and temporal variation.

Datasets ID: H5

Partners: BSH

Region: Baltic Sea

Bottom light availability is an important environmental information in determining regions where marine flora; seaweeds, seagrasses and microphytobenthos; can develop. We will deliver the bottom light product as Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR), which includes radiation wavelengths between 400-700 nm.

Datasets ID: H6

Partners: OGS

Region: Mediterranean Sea

Bottom light availability is an important environmental information in determining regions where marine flora; seaweeds, seagrasses and microphytobenthos; can develop. We will deliver the bottom light product as Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR), which includes radiation wavelengths between 400-700 nm.

Datasets ID: H41

Partners: UoL

Region: Black Sea

Bottom light availability is an important environmental information in determining regions where marine flora; seaweeds, seagrasses and microphytobenthos; can develop. We will deliver the bottom light product as Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR), which includes radiation wavelengths between 400-700 nm.

Datasets ID: H2

Partners: UKMO

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

Bottom light availability is an important environmental information in determining regions where marine flora; seaweeds, seagrasses and microphytobenthos; can develop. We will deliver the bottom light product as Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR), which includes radiation wavelengths between 400-700 nm.

Datasets ID: H5

Partners: BSH

Region: Baltic Sea

The macrozoobenthos, usually defined as benthic macrofauna larger than 1 mm in size, is an essential element in benthic-pelagic coupling, because it mediates particulate and solute fluxes between the water column and sediments. It degrades organic matter that sinks to the bottom, changes biogeochemical properties of sediments via bioturbation and bioirrigation, affecting, for instance, rates of microbial oxidation and denitrification. It also serves as a food source for higher trophic levels, thus helping to sustain fish and fisheries. Macrozoobenthic communities, in turn, respond to organic matter supplied from the water column, hydrodynamic regime, and temperature. Major feeding groups (suspension and deposit feeders) differ in diet composition and vertical habitat distribution, which defines their functioning. In turn, their environment and changes in its characteristics affect these groups differently.

Datasets ID: H40

Partners: NIOZ

Region: Black Sea

The macrozoobenthos, usually defined as benthic macrofauna larger than 1 mm in size, is an essential element in benthic-pelagic coupling, because it mediates particulate and solute fluxes between the water column and sediments. It degrades organic matter that sinks to the bottom, changes biogeochemical properties of sediments via bioturbation and bioirrigation, affecting, for instance, rates of microbial oxidation and denitrification. It also serves as a food source for higher trophic levels, thus helping to sustain fish and fisheries. Macrozoobenthic communities, in turn, respond to organic matter supplied from the water column, hydrodynamic regime, and temperature. Major feeding groups (suspension and deposit feeders) differ in diet composition and vertical habitat distribution, which defines their functioning. In turn, their environment and changes in its characteristics affect these groups differently.

Datasets ID: H2

Partners: UKMO/PML

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

The macrozoobenthos, usually defined as benthic macrofauna larger than 1 mm in size, is an essential element in benthic-pelagic coupling, because it mediates particulate and solute fluxes between the water column and sediments. It degrades organic matter that sinks to the bottom, changes biogeochemical properties of sediments via bioturbation and bioirrigation, affecting, for instance, rates of microbial oxidation and denitrification. It also serves as a food source for higher trophic levels, thus helping to sustain fish and fisheries. Macrozoobenthic communities, in turn, respond to organic matter supplied from the water column, hydrodynamic regime, and temperature. Major feeding groups (suspension and deposit feeders) differ in diet composition and vertical habitat distribution, which defines their functioning. In turn, their environment and changes in its characteristics affect these groups differently.

Datasets ID: H40

Partners: NIOZ

Region: Black Sea

Understanding the distribution of marine mammals (MM) is essential to gain insights into their ecology and population dynamics, to implement conservation and management measures and assess their effectiveness, and to project the future of the ecosystem services and goods they provide (food provisioning, top-down control of the food web, carbon regulation, tourism, and leisure). The current Copernicus Marine Service does not include any products for large marine top predators such as marine mammals. This limitation prevents Copernicus Marine Service from providing stakeholders with products to assess the role of large marine top predators on the ecosystem. NECCTON will provide a new HTL model for marine mammals with the objective of providing new useful decision-tools to all stakeholders involved in the management or conservation of high trophic levels.

Datasets ID: H12

Partners: The National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

Region: Adriatic Sea

Understanding the distribution of marine mammals (MM) is essential to gain insights into their ecology and population dynamics, to implement conservation and management measures and assess their effectiveness, and to project the future of the ecosystem services and goods they provide (food provisioning, top-down control of the food web, carbon regulation, tourism, and leisure). The current Copernicus Marine Service does not include any products for large marine top predators such as marine mammals. This limitation prevents Copernicus Marine Service from providing stakeholders with products to assess the role of large marine top predators on the ecosystem. NECCTON will provide a new HTL model for marine mammals with the objective of providing new useful decision-tools to all stakeholders involved in the management or conservation of high trophic levels.

Datasets ID: H24

Partners: Instituto do Mar

Region: Azores

Mesozooplankton are heterotrophic organisms in the size range from 0.2 to 20 mm. Mesozooplankton move with ocean currents but can migrate vertically in the water column. Mesozooplankton generally feed on primary producers, microzooplankton and detritus particles. They are an important prey for fish larva and planktivorous fish and therefore represent an important link between primary producers and higher trophic levels.

Datasets ID: H4

Partners: NERSC

Region: Arctic

Mesozooplankton are heterotrophic organisms in the size range from 0.2 to 20 mm. Mesozooplankton move with ocean currents but can migrate vertically in the water column. Mesozooplankton generally feed on primary producers, microzooplankton and detritus particles. They are an important prey for fish larva and planktivorous fish and therefore represent an important link between primary producers and higher trophic levels.

Datasets ID: H2

Partners: UKMO

Region: North-West (NW) European Shelf

Mesozooplankton are heterotrophic organisms in the size range from 0.2 to 20 mm. Mesozooplankton move with ocean currents but can migrate vertically in the water column. Mesozooplankton generally feed on primary producers, microzooplankton and detritus particles. They are an important prey for fish larva and planktivorous fish and therefore represent an important link between primary producers and higher trophic levels.

Datasets ID: H5

Partners: BSH

Region: Baltic Sea