WestBanks: understanding benthic, pelagic and air-borne ecosystem interactions in shallow coastal seas : final report

dc.contributor.author	Vincx, Magda
dc.contributor.author	Volckaert, Filip
dc.contributor.author	Stienen, Eric
dc.date	2012
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-13T11:34:48Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-13T11:34:48Z
dc.identifier.uri	https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/4067
dc.description	It has now been widely accepted that human activities have a negative impact on marine ecosystems. Anthropogenic influences can be direct (i.e. through expoitation, pollution, and habitat destruction) or indirect (i.e. climate change). Overall, this results in declining biodiversity and impoverished ecosystem functioning, leading to a loss of ecosystem services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems. In the coastal zone, these human impacts triggered biodiversity loss, which resulted in negative impacts on important ecosystem services including food provision (fisheries), provision of nursery habitats, connectivity between habitats and filtering and detoxification services.
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Brussels : Federal Science Policy, 2012
dc.title	WestBanks: understanding benthic, pelagic and air-borne ecosystem interactions in shallow coastal seas : final report
dc.type	Report
dc.subject.frascati	Earth and related Environmental sciences
dc.audience	General Public
dc.audience	Scientific
dc.subject.free	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Orfeo.peerreviewed	Not pertinent
dc.identifier.depositnumber	D/2011/1191/34
dc.identifier.belspo	SP2443
dc.relation.belspo-project	SD/BN/01A,SD/BN/01B