PROJECT : BIOCEAN5D
- Funding : Horizon Europe
- Start Date : 01/09/2022
- End Date : 31/08/2026
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Scientific project
BIOCEAN5D
MARINE BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION ACROSS SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND HUMAN SCALES
Principal Investigator(s) :
Edith Heard (EMBL)
Local Coordinator(s) :
Fabien Lombard
Team(s) involved :
COMPLEx
IMEV
Members :
Jean-Olivier Irisson
SUMMARY
Build a unique suite of technologies, protocols, and models allowing holistic re- exploration of marine biodiversity. A focus is to understand pan-European biodiversity land-to-sea gradients and ecosystem services (tara-TREC expedition).
Project Description
” BIOcean5D unites EMBL, EMBRC, Genoscope, together with 26 partners from 11 countries, to build a unique suite of technologies, protocols, and models allowing holistic re- exploration of marine biodiversity, across multiple spatial and temporal scales stretching from pre-industrial to today. A focus is to understand pan-European biodiversity land-to-sea gradients and ecosystem services, through an expedition (TREC, 2023/24) that will deploy mobile labs, the Tara schooner, and innovative citizen science tools, across European seas. New data will be harmonized with existing data into an open-access data hub, leveraging international infrastructures, and generating transformative, cross-technologies/cross-scales standard marine biodiversity knowledge at the socio- ecosystem level. Knowledge will focus on (i) new theories and models of marine biodiversity , (ii) novel indicators of ecosystem health, (iii) innovative methods for economic and legal valuations of marine biodiversity “
