Restoration of deep-sea habitats to rebuild European Seas

恢复深海栖息地以重建欧洲海域

• 批准号: 10107562
• 金额: $ 10.79万
• 依托单位: PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10107562
• 关键词: Restoration; deep; sea; habitats; rebuild

REDRESS aims to provide a key contribution to the EU commitments towards restoring degraded ecosystems, especially in the deep sea. REDRESS will provide solutions to prioritize future restoration actions, extend deep-sea restoration to previously neglected habitat types, and demonstrate the feasibility, potential, and value for success of deep-sea ecosystem restoration. The project will focus on habitats that have great potential to contribute to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation but have been degraded by deep-sea fishing, especially trawling. Specifically, we will study vulnerable marine ecosystems, including sea pens and bamboo corals on soft sediments, coral gardens, cold-water coral reefs, sponge fields, and cold seeps. REDRESS will map degraded deep-sea habitats and identify habitat refugia to prioritize restoration efforts that will adapt to future scenarios of climate change. To adopt and adapt cutting-edge solutions for both restoration interventions and monitoring, REDRESS will make a significant technological investment and will benefit from a relevant ship time by in-kind contribution (136 days). REDRESS will offer nature-based solutions to public authorities and operators to advance ecosystem restoration in the deep sea. Building on the MERCES experience, REDRESS will go beyond the state of art, either developing new methodologies, using sophisticated technologies, defining success indicators, and expanding the target habitats also to cold seeps. The results will enable a significant advancement in the EU's marine restoration strategy. The project will also provide socio economic data, protocols, and tools to plan, and upscale restoration interventions in deep-sea habitats. REDRESS will provide novel insights into the advantages and limits of active vs passive deep-sea restoration, and related cost-benefit analysis in different deep-sea habitats supporting policies and decision makers in the future application of the Nature Restoration Law

REDRESS 旨在为欧盟恢复退化生态系统（特别是深海生态系统）的承诺做出重要贡献。 REDRESS 将提供解决方案，以确定未来恢复行动的优先顺序，将深海恢复扩展到以前被忽视的栖息地类型，并展示深海生态系统恢复成功的可行性、潜力和价值。该项目将重点关注那些对碳固存和减缓气候变化具有巨大潜力但已因深海捕捞（尤其是拖网捕捞）而退化的栖息地。具体来说，我们将研究脆弱的海洋生态系统，包括软沉积物上的海笔和竹珊瑚、珊瑚花园、冷水珊瑚礁、海绵场和冷泉。 REDRESS 将绘制退化的深海栖息地地图，并确定栖息地保护区，以优先考虑适应未来气候变化情景的恢复工作。为了采用和适应恢复干预和监测的尖端解决方案，REDRESS 将进行重大技术投资，并将通过实物贡献从相关的运输时间（136 天）中受益。 REDRESS 将为公共当局和运营商提供基于自然的解决方案，以促进深海生态系统的恢复。以 MERCES 经验为基础，REDRESS 将超越现有技术，要么开发新方法，使用先进技术，定义成功指标，要么将目标栖息地扩展到冷泉。研究结果将使欧盟海洋恢复战略取得重大进展。该项目还将提供社会经济数据、协议和工具，以规划和升级深海栖息地的恢复干预措施。 REDRESS将为主动与被动深海恢复的优势和局限性提供新颖的见解，并在不同的深海栖息地进行相关的成本效益分析，为未来自然恢复法应用中的政策和决策者提供支持