The project EcoNAOS: vision and practice towards an open approach in the Northern Adriatic Sea ecological observatory
Autori: Minelli A, Oggioni A, Pugnetti A, Sarretta A, Bastianini M, Bergami C, Bernardi Aubry F, Camatti E, Scovacricchi T, Socal G
Rivista: Research Ideas and Outcomes
DOI: 10.3897/rio.4.e24224
Abstract:
A critical global and regional issue is the man-induced changing of the marine ecosystem, which threatens its sustainable use by present and future generations. Significant challenges still persist in developing and delivering the sound ecological knowledge necessary to assess the on-going changes and their impact on the sustainable use of the sea and on the consequences for the protection strategies. This requires an innovative integration of ecological and oceanographic research and conservation monitoring programmes, across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The creation of marine ecological observatories, able to arrange and maintain integrated, harmonized and coherent long-term ecological observations, is actually stressed as a relevant step at the European level, for sustaining European marine policies (see, e.g., the EASAC and JRC (2016) policy report and the Recommendations from the G7 expert workshop on future of the oceans and seas – G7 Science Ministers 2016). Indeed, the most significant issues concerning the sea are fundamentally biological and socio-ecological, since they are related to its role as a source of food, health and human well-being.
Keywords: LTER-Italy, Northern Adriatic Sea, Open Science, marine ecological data, Open Access, Research project lifecycle
