MARBEFES - MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services

欧洲联盟及其成员国有一个根本需要了解必须如何维持生物多样性和生态系统的功能，以确保它们提供生态系统服务、货物和效益，而这些反过来又必须被社会可持续地利用。最重要的是，作为这一呼吁的理由，MSS需要重视生态系统的这些自然和社会资本方面。MARBEFES的总体目标是确定沿海和海洋生态系统的生物多样性和功能与由此产生的生态系统服务和社会产品及效益之间的联系。在这方面，它将通过分布式工具箱(TRL 6)中一套经过验证的创新工具实现生态和社会经济价值，以加强政策和治理，确保今世后代的利益。我们将大大超越目前对维持、丧失和获得生物多样性以及生态和经济价值的原因和后果以及由此对欧洲海洋的管理和治理的影响的最先进理解。该项目的产出和成果涉及23个经验丰富的合作伙伴，其基础是利用12个宽阔地带样带案例研究中现有的和新的信息和数据，开发和验证一套生态、经济和社会文化评估工具。这些措施涵盖欧洲海洋生物多样性的广度，从北极到亚热带地区，跨越优势生境和标志性物种，从浅层到深层，涵盖一系列社会经济背景。因此，通过利益攸关方共同创建政策相关性，MARBEFES展示了评估不同自然资本资源的工具，并为从财政分配到管理以及货币和非货币利益的规划提供信息。在这方面，该项目通过将海洋生物多样性及其生态结构和功能与生态和经济价值联系起来，促进了我们的知识

The European Union and its Member States (MSs) have a fundamental need to understand how biodiversity and ecosystem functioning must be maintained to ensure that they deliver ecosystem services, goods, and benefits, which in turn must be sustainably used by society. Central to this, and as the raison d’?tre of this call, the MSs need to value these natural and social capital aspects of ecosystems. The overall aim of MARBEFES is to determine the links between the biodiversity and functioning of coastal and marine ecosystems and the resulting ecosystem services and societal goods and benefits. In this it will achieve ecological and socio-economic valuation through a validated set of innovative tools in a distributed toolbox (TRL 6) to enhance policy and governance to secure benefits for current and future generation. We will progress substantially beyond the current state-of-the-art understanding of the causes and consequences of the maintenance, loss and gain of biodiversity and ecological and economic value and the repercussions of this for the management and governance of European seas. Involving 23 highly experienced partners, the project outputs and outcomes are based on developing and validating a set of ecological, economic and socio-cultural valuation tools using existing and new information and data in 12 Broad Belt Transect case studies. These cover the breadth of European marine biodiversity, from the Arctic to semi-tropical areas, across dominant habitats and iconic species, and from shallow to deep areas and encompass a range of socio-economic contexts. As such, and through stakeholder co-creation for policy relevance, MARBEFES showsthe toolsto value different natural capital resources and inform planning from financial allocations to management and with monetary and non-monetary benefits. In this, the project advances our knowledge through linking marine biodiversity and its ecological structure and functioning to ecological and economic valuation