Restoration of deep-sea habitats to rebuild European Seas

补救措施旨在为欧盟恢复退化的生态系统，特别是深海生态系统的承诺作出重要贡献。补救措施将提供解决办法，以确定未来恢复行动的优先顺序，将深海恢复扩展到以前被忽视的生境类型，并展示深海生态系统恢复的可行性、潜力和成功价值。该项目将侧重于具有极大潜力促进碳固存和气候缓解，但已因深海捕捞，特别是拖网捕捞而退化的生境。具体地说，我们将研究脆弱的海洋生态系统，包括软质沉积物上的海栏和竹珊瑚、珊瑚园、冷水珊瑚礁、海绵田和冷渗漏。补救措施将绘制退化的深海栖息地地图，并确定栖息地避难所，以优先开展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，RECORATION将进行重大的技术投资，并将通过实物捐助受益于相关的船期(136天)。补偿将向公共当局和经营者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，补救措施将超越最先进的水平，要么开发新的方法，使用复杂的技术，定义成功指标，要么将目标栖息地也扩大到冷渗漏。这一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、议定书和工具，以规划和推广深海栖息地的恢复干预措施。补救措施将为主动和被动深海恢复的优势和局限性以及不同深海生境下的相关成本效益分析提供新的见解，以支持未来适用《自然恢复法》的政策和决策者

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