North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
DOI10.5281/zenodo.4279776Zenodo4279776MaRDI QIDQ6690468FDOQ6690468
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Pablo Durán Muñoz, Ellen Kenchington, Berta Ramiro-Sánchez, Tina Molodtsova, Christopher K. Pham, Luís Rodrigues, Dierk Hebbeln, Giovanni Chimienti, Covadonga Orejas, José L. Rueda, David Stirling, José-Manuel González-Irusta, Laurence Fauconnet, Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Mar Sacau, Lea-Anne Henry, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Gerald H Taranto, Manuela Ramos, Georgios Kazanidis, Erik Cordes, Steve W. Ross, Lenaick Menot, Telmo Morato, Carlos Dominguez-Carrió, Anthony Grehan
Publication date: 18 November 2020
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
We applied the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) multi criteria assessment (MCA) method for identifying VMEs in the North-East Atlantic (ICES, 2016a,b; Morato et al., 2018) from ATLAS VME database to provide the first North Atlantic Ocean basin-scale VME assessment. This MCA is a taxa-dependent spatial method that incorporates the fact that not all VME indicators have the same vulnerability to human impacts, and thus should not be weighted equally. By including a measure of the confidence associated with each VME record, this methodology also considers some of the uncertainties associated with the sampling methodologies, the reported taxonomy, and data quality issues. Equally important, this dataset highlights areas in the North Atlantic that have been poorly sampled and that require further attention. Finally, this methodology also allows for the evaluation and comparison of the VME likelihood with spatial fisheries data that may directly generate significant adverse impacts on VMEs. In thedata report, we made the North Atlantic basin-scale VME index dataset publicly, thus allowing its consultation and use by scientists, managers, or other relevant stakeholders.
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