Use of Our Future Seas:Relevance of Spatial and Temporal Scale for Physical and Biological Indicators

Trifonova, Neda, Scott, Beth, De Dominicis, Michela and Wolf, Judith (2022) Use of Our Future Seas:Relevance of Spatial and Temporal Scale for Physical and Biological Indicators. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. pp. 1-20. ISSN 2296-7745

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Abstract

There is about to be an abrupt step-change in the use of our coastal seas, specifically by the addition of large-scale offshore renewable energy developments to combat climate change. Many trade-offs will need to be weighed up for the future sustainable management of marine ecosystems between renewables and other uses (e.g., fisheries, marine protected areas). Therefore, we need a much greater understanding of how different marine habitats and ecosystems are likely to change with both natural and anthropogenic transformations. This work will present a review of predictive Bayesian approaches from ecosystem level, through to fine scale mechanistic understanding of foraging success by individual species, to identify consistent physical (e.g., bottom temperature) and biological (e.g., chlorophyll-a) indicators of habitat and ecosystem change over the last 30 years within the North Sea. These combined approaches illuminate the feasibility of integrating knowledge across scales to be able to address the spatio-temporal variability of biophysical indicators to ultimately strengthen predictions of population changes at ecosystem scales across broadly different habitat types. Such knowledge will provide an effective baseline for more strategic and integrated approaches to both monitoring studies and assessing anthropogenic impacts to be used within marine spatial planning considerations.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The authors would like to thank the following people for providing original images, incorporated in this work: Rory O’Hara Murray (Marine Scotland Science, United Kingdom), Ella-Sophia Benninghaus and Morgane Declerck (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	climate change,fisheries,marine ecosystem,marine protected areas,marine spatial planning,net primary production,potential energy anomaly,seabirds and marine mammals,oceanography,global and planetary change,aquatic science,water science and technology,environmental science (miscellaneous),ocean engineering,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1910
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2026 10:30
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2026 07:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102036
DOI:	10.3389/fmars.2021.769680

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