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ATLAS Deliverable 3.1: Good Environmental Status and Biodiversity Assessments
Summary
This ATLAS project deliverable explores how Good Environmental Status for deep-sea habitats can be defined under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, focusing on four descriptors: biodiversity, commercial species, seafloor integrity, and marine litter. The report reviews progress with deep-sea indicator development and discusses assessment approaches for these ecologically critical but poorly monitored environments.
This deliverable aims to explore how best to define Good Environmental Status (GES) for deep-sea habitats, to review progress with indicator development for the deep sea, and to explore how better to assess GES in the deep sea considering four of the eleven Descriptors included in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD): D1 Biodiversity, D3 Commercial species, D6 Seafloor integrity and D10 Marine Litter.