REDRESS

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，以优先考虑未来的恢复行动，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的可行性，潜力和成功的价值。该项目将侧重于具有促进碳固存和减缓气候变化的巨大潜力，但因深海捕捞，特别是拖网捕捞而退化的生境。具体来说，我们将研究脆弱的海洋生态系统，包括海笔和竹珊瑚在软沉积物，珊瑚花园，冷水珊瑚礁，海绵领域，和冷渗漏。REDRESS将绘制退化的深海生境地图，并确定生境避难所，以优先考虑适应未来气候变化情景的恢复工作。为了采用和调整用于恢复干预和监测的尖端解决方案，补救方案将进行大量技术投资，并将受益于实物捐助的相关运输时间（136天）。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。在MERCES经验的基础上，REDRESS将超越现有技术，开发新的方法，使用先进的技术，确定成功指标，并将目标生境扩大到冷泉。研究结果将使欧盟的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，以规划和扩大深海栖息地的恢复干预措施。补救方案将提供关于主动与被动深海恢复的优势和局限性的新见解，并对不同深海生境进行相关的成本效益分析，以支持政策制定者和决策者今后适用《自然恢复法》。

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.