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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nogues, Quentin
• Bourdaud, Pierre
• Araignous, Emma
• Halouani, Ghassen
• Ben Rais Lasram, Frida
• Dauvin, Jean-Claude
• Le Loc'h, François
• Niquil, Nathalie
• Coll, Marta

Titel

An ecosystem-wide approach for assessing the spatialized cumulative effects of local and global changes on coastal ecosystem functioning

Ist Teil von

• ICES journal of marine science, 2023-05, Vol.80 (4), p.1129-1142

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Coastal ecosystems are subjected to an increasing number of anthropogenic drivers, including marine renewable energies and climate change (CC). These drivers can interact in complex ways, which may lead to cumulative effects (CEs) whose potential consequences on the ecosystems need to be addressed. We used a holistic approach—ecological network analysis (ENA)—coupled with a two-dimensional food web model—Ecospace—to conduct an ecosystem study of the CEs of CC plus the operation of an offshore wind farm on ecosystem functioning in the extended Bay of Seine (English Channel). Mapped ENA indices showed that CEs were not restricted to the wind farm area, i.e. where anthropogenic drivers are concomitant. CEs varied both in space and among ecosystem properties, displaying that ENA indices can distinguish between different cumulative pathways that modify ecosystem functioning in multiple ways. Moreover, the effects seemed to be tied to the structuring role of CC, and differed under the 2050 and 2100 conditions. Such changes resulted in stronger loss of ecosystem resilience under the 2100 conditions despite the benefits of the reef and reserve effects of the wind farm.