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What is Marine Biodiversity?

• Genetic diversity
• Species diversity
• Ecosystem diversity
• Functional diversity
• Ecosystem functioning
• Cultural and economic understanding of biodiversity
• The distinctive features of marine biodiversity

Evolution

Evaluation of Marine Biodiversity

• Valuation and assessment of biodiversity
• Measurement
• Sampling
  • Sampling tools
• Number of marine species
  • Species lists
  • Biodiversity hotspots

Why is Marine biodiversity important?

• Resilience and resistance
• Disturbance prevention
• Nutrient cycling
• Greenhouse gas regulation
• Bioremediation of waste
• Biologically mediated habitat
• Food provision
  • Mariculture
• Ocean resources
• Leisure
• Cultural values
• Non-use value
• Option use value

European marine biodiversity

• European marine biodiversity sites
• Geographic variation
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Baltic Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • North Sea
  • Black Sea
• Ecosystem variation
  • Ocean circulation
  • Salinity
• Variation of valuation of biodiversity
  • Cultural value variation
  • Cultural and Economic understandings of biodiversity
  • Biological Valuation
    • Valuation and assessment of biodiversity
    • Introduction to biodiversity of coastal and marine habitats and ecosystems

Marine Ecosystems

• Rocky Shores
• Sandy Shores
  • Meiofauna of Sandy Beaches
• Continental shelf habitat
• Kelp forests
• Open oceans
  • Marine Plankton
• Deep sea habitat
  • Deep sea bottom
  • Review of Hadal Environments
• Sea ice ecosystems
• Coral reefs
• Seagrass meadows
• Mangroves
• Seaweed (macro-algae) ecosystem services
• Salt marshes
• Estuaries

Threats to Marine Biodiversity

• Overexploitation
  • Effects of fisheries on marine biodiversity
• Pollution
  • Marine Eutrophication
  • Ecotoxicology
• Habitat destruction and fragmentation
• Non-native species invasions
• Climate change
• Species extinction

Marine Biodiversity research

• Global Patterns
  • Ecological and latitudinal aspects
• Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem function
  • A review of biodiversity-ecosystem function research
  • MarBEF Booklet
• Species and Ecosystems
  • Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  • Diversity and classification of marine benthic algae
• Genetic biodiversity
• Functional Metabolites
  • Chemical and physical properties
  • Macroalgal-herbivore interactions
  • Benthic invertebrates
  • Phytoplankton

Conservation

• EU Common Fisheries Policy
• NATURA 2000
• Habitats Directive
  • SAC
• Bird Directive
  • SPA
• Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
• ICZM (Integrated Coastal Zone Management)
• EM (Ecosystem based Management)