Assesses impacts on marine ecosystems critical to biodiversity. Supports the blue economy (fisheries, aquaculture, shipping) in adapting to changing ocean conditions.
Challenge
Ocean acidification, warming and deoxygenation as slow onset processes are some of the major causes of marine biodiversity decline and alteration of the coastal marine ecosystems functioning and services. Meanwhile, the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the aquatic environment not only alters the chemical properties of the water, but impacts the physiology and metabolism of marine organisms, the population dynamics and the structure of aquatic communities, with likely effects on marine food webs and the carbon biogeochemical cycle.
Solution
This demonstrator will design a new integrated IRISCC service combining the unique RI expertise in marine ecology and environmental sciences of EMBRC with the long-term data from ICOS and SeaDataNet.
SeaDataNet will contribute validated chemical data collections of aggregated datasets from EMODnet Chemistry and DIVAnd software; EMBRC together with LifeWatch services will facilitate Species Distribution Modelling projections via its Bio-ORACLE pipeline; and eLTER will contribute observational data on long-term changes in aquatic ecosystems.
Outcome
As a result, the following outcomes are foreseen: 1) the effect on marine ecosystem biodiversity, functioning and services, 2) the effects of mitigation strategies of climate change in the ocean, 3) experimentally determined model parameters that can be used in climate change models for adaptation and mitigation.
Reproducibility
The demonstrator showcases service designed experiments deployed in 4 different oceanic locations representing 4 different supersites (EMBRC stations in the Baltic Sea, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea).
