Marine Protected Areas for Europe (MPA Europe)

欧洲海洋保护区是一个由欧盟共同资助的项目，将绘制一个代表欧洲海洋生物多样性的地点网络（欧盟及其邻国的大西洋专属经济区，以及所有地中海、波罗的海、该网络将指明在何处优先设立海洋保护区，以保护生物多样性，以及海洋空间规划（MSP）可以最大限度地发挥蓝碳效益。通过使用从物种到生态系统（包括栖息地）的一整套生物多样性措施，以及包括碳储存、水流和气候变化速度模型在内的环境数据，将有可能量化和绘制拟议的MPA网络内目前和未来的连通性。提供的多种方案将支持决策者、行业和非政府组织（NGO）更广泛和更好的MSP。MPA欧洲的跨学科方法得到了多种合作伙伴的支持。这些机构包括：诺德大学（挪威）、教科文组织政府间海洋学委员会（比利时）、苏格兰海洋科学协会（联合王国苏格兰）、海洋科学中心（葡萄牙）、中国海洋大学（中国）、Science Crunchers（葡萄牙）、琉球大学（日本）、奥胡斯大学（丹麦）和自然保护联合委员会（联合王国英格兰）。合作伙伴包括海洋生物学、分类学、生态学、海洋学、海洋地球化学和海洋地理学、MPA网络设计、底栖生境制图、碳动力学、物种分布、气候建模等方面的专家，MSP组成了MPA欧洲团队。

MPA Europe is a project co-funded by the European Union (EU) that will map a network of locations representative of biodiversity in European seas (Atlantic Exclusive Economic Zones of the EU and its neighbours, and all the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black seas).This network will indicate where to prioritise placement of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) for biodiversity protection and how Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) can maximise blue carbon benefits. By using a holistic set of biodiversity measures, from species to ecosystems (including habitats), and environmental data including carbon storage, water currents, and climate change velocity models, it will be possible to quantify and map both the present and future connectivity within the proposed MPA network. The multiple scenarios provided will support wider and improved MSP by policy makers, industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).The inter-disciplinary approach of MPA Europe is supported by a diversity of partners. These include Nord University (Norway), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (Belgium), the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Scotland, UK), the Centre of Marine Sciences (Portugal), the Ocean University of China (China), Science Crunchers (Portugal), the University of the Ryukyus (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (England, UK). The partners include experts in marine biology, taxonomy, ecology, oceanography, biogeochemistry, and biogeography, MPA network design, benthic habitat mapping, carbon dynamics, species distribution, climate modelling, and MSP compose the MPA Europe team.