Assessing the sensitivity of the sea floor

Assessing the sensitivity of the sea floor - ICES

Different habitats in the benthic ecosystem have differing levels of sensitivity and the pressures from human activities impact to varying degrees.

The sensitivity of seafloor compliance measurements to sub-basalt ...

sensitivity of seafloor compliance to sub-basalt sediments depends mostly on the water depth and the sub-basalt sediment layer depth, thickness and shear ...

The sensitivity of seafloor compliance measurements to sub-basalt ...

The sensitivity of seafloor compliance to sub-basalt sediments depends mostly on the water depth and the sub-basalt sediment layer depth, thickness and shear ...

Assessing the sensitivity of habitats to fishing: from seabed maps to ...

In the Welsh part of the Irish Sea, a method was developed for assessing the sensitivity of different seabed habitats to existing fishing activities, ...

Estimating sensitivity of seabed habitats to disturbance by bottom ...

Habitat sensitivity maps are produced of the critical trawling intensities that reduce the biomass of long-lived taxa to a certain level. The ...

ICES Advice on Vulnerable marine ecosystems and Assessing Sea ...

Advice released on approach to carry forward sea floor sensitivity mapping for Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). ICES Published: 4 July 2016. Page ...

The sensitivity of seafloor compliance to two-dimensional low ...

Furthermore, we can use a relatively small number of parameters (wave speed, radius and depth of the cylinder) to assess the resolution of the resulting 1-D ...

Screening and assessing physical pressures affecting seafloor ...

Under Descriptor 6 (D6), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires that seafloor integrity is at a level that ensures the ...

Comment on “Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate ... - Science

In the context of all the possible causes of variability, the temporal match of an unfiltered stack of seafloor bathymetry with periods of high ...

Assessing the sensitivity of habitats to fishing: From seabed maps to ...

In the Welsh part of the Irish Sea, a method was developed for assessing the sensitivity of different seabed habitats to existing fishing ...

A seafloor sensitivity index to oil spills in tropical marine protected ...

The results revealed that 12.7% of the area was classified at a high seafloor sensitivity index (SIseafloor), 28.7% was classified at relatively ...

Assessing the sensitivity of habitats to fishing: from seabed maps to ...

Following consensus on the habitat sensitivity, these data were combined with the most resolved sea-floor habitat maps. These habitat ...

Assessing the human footprint on the sea-floor of coastal systems

Coastal systems are among the most studied, most vulnerable, and economically most important ecosystems on Earth; nevertheless, ...

Assessing the sensitivity of seagrass bed biotopes to pressures ...

Assessing the sensitivity of seagrass bed biotopes to pressures associated with marine activities ... sea floor. This accumulation of sediments is.

Assessing sea floor functional biodiversity and vulnerability

As an example, coral mor- phology can have prominent habitat effects on other species, but arborescent forms are very sensitive to physical ...

Predicted extent of physical disturbance to seafloor - Marine Scotland

This assessment, developed for use in OSPAR and UK Marine Strategy assessments (known as 'Extent of Physical Damage' indicator (OSPAR, 2017), predicts the ...

Response to Comment on "Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to ...

... seafloor but does not argue that sea level change is a first-order control on seafloor morphology worldwide. Upon evaluating the overlap ...

Response to Comment on “Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to ...

The average spacing of these faults can be measured by identifying fault scarps along cross-axis bathymetry and side-scan sonar profiles (4, 6).

Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in ...

This yielded variations in seafloor topography of ~150 m in response to 600-m varia- tions in crustal thickness driven by sea level changes over ...

Comment on “Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven ...

Olive et al. (Reports, 16 October 2015, p. 310) argue that ~10% fluctuations in melt supply do not produce appreciable changes in ocean ridge bathymetry on ...