The RADMED monitoring program as a tool for MSFD implementation: toward an ecosystem based approach

In the western Mediterranean Sea, the RADMED monitoring programme is already conducting several of the evaluations required under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MFSD) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The different aspects of the ecosystem that are regularly sampled under this monitor...

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Autores: López-Jurado, José Luis, Balbín, Rosa, Alemany, Francisco, Amengual, Bartolomé, Aparicio-González, Alberto, Fernández-de-Puelles, María Luz, García-Martínez, María del Carmen, Gazá, Magdalena, Jansá, Javier, Morillas-Kieffer, Ana, Moya-Ruiz, Francisca, Santiago Doménech, Rocío, Serra-Tur, Mariano, Vargas-Yáñez, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/317658
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/317658
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Operational Oceanography
Medio Marino
MSFD
Western Mediterranean
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Sumario:In the western Mediterranean Sea, the RADMED monitoring programme is already conducting several of the evaluations required under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MFSD) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The different aspects of the ecosystem that are regularly sampled under this monitoring programme are the physical environment and the chemical and biological variables of the water column, together with the planktonic communities, biomass and structure. Moreover, determinations of some anthropogenic stressors on the marine environment, such as contaminants and microplastics, are under development. Data are managed and stored at the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) Data Centre that works under the Sea- DataNet infrastructure, and are also stored in the IBAMar database. In combination with remote sensing data, they are used to address open questions on the ecosystems in the western Mediterranean Sea.