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Geographic area European Seas North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Celtic Sea Irish Sea

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North Sea Norwegian Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea Arctic Ocean Baltic Sea Gulf of Bothnia Gulf of Finland Gulf of Riga Mediterranean Sea Alboran Sea Balearic Sea Ligurian Sea Tyrrhenian Sea Gulf of Lion Adriatic Sea Ionian Sea Strait of Sicily Aegean Sea Levantine Sea Black Sea

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Thematic area Habitat mapping Conservation

Habitat group

Habitat group Group 1: Seagrass beds Group 2: Macroalgal forests Group 3: Shellfish beds Group 5: Sponge, coral and coralligenous beds Group 4: Maerl beds Group 6: Vents and seeps Group 7: Soft sediments (not deeper than 1000 m) All habitats

Methodology

Methodology Airborne Artificial Reefs Deployment Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Direct Sampling Environmental DNA (eDNA) LiDAR Remote Sensing

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Multispectral Remote Sensing Satellite Sub-Bottom Profiling (SBP) Substrate Enhancement / Stabilization Towed Camera Systems (Scuba/Drop Cameras) Transplantation Other

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Keywords edna gorgonians endemism climate resilience discount rate diving

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marine conservation coralligenous metadata blue carbon prioritisation classification funding Mediterranean Sea numerical computing remote sensing sonar validation maerl array programming eunis multibeam ground-truth budget scientific computing Marine reastoration posidonia species richness reference site numpy NumPy participation habitat map national plan showcase costs Python LIFE programme heatwaves nature restoration law open data natura 2000 cost-benefit indicators maritime spatial planning stakeholders monitoring seagrass ecosystem services doi msfd fisheries climate change marine biodiversity

Short, sourced pages on mapping, assessing and restoring Europe's marine habitats, written by the researchers of the Life Mapper partnership.

Programme:: Programme for Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)
Title of the Project:: Guidelines for MAPping, ProtEcting, and Restoring Marine Ecosystems
Acronym:: LIFE24-PRE-IT-LIFE MAPPER
Duration:: 01/05/2025 – 30/04/2028
Total Budget:: € 1,290,850.61

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