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The RADMED monitoring programme as a tool for MSFD implementation: towards an ecosystem-based approach

2015; Copernicus Publications; Volume: 11; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5194/os-11-897-2015

1812-0792

José Luís López‐Jurado, Rosa Balbín, Francisco Alemany, Bartomeu Amengual, Alberto Aparicio‐González, M.L. Fernández-de-Puelles, M.C. García-Martínez, M. Gazá, J. Jansá, A. Morillas-Kieffer, Francina Moya, Rocío Santiago, Mariano Serra, Manuel Vargas‐Yáñez,

Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Abstract. In the western Mediterranean Sea, the RADMED monitoring programme is already conducting several of the evaluations required under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MFSD) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The different aspects of the ecosystem that are regularly sampled under this monitoring programme are the physical environment and the chemical and biological variables of the water column, together with the planktonic communities, biomass and structure. Moreover, determinations of some anthropogenic stressors on the marine environment, such as contaminants and microplastics, are under development. Data are managed and stored at the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) Data Centre that works under the SeaDataNet infrastructure, and are also stored in the IBAMar database. In combination with remote sensing data, they are used to address open questions on the ecosystems in the western Mediterranean Sea.