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SECOS:
SECOS: The service of sediments in german coastal seas; Main proposal; Coordination

Duration:
01.04.2013 - 31.03.2016
Project manager:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann
Funding:
BMBF - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Researchfoci:
Focus 2: Basin-scale ecosystem dynamics
Focus 3: Changing Ecosystems
Partners:

Coastal and marginal seas serve as natural reaction sites for the processing and accumulation of land-derived discharges. The main location of modification and accumulation of input into coastal and marginal seas are in most cases the sediments. Their key positions as central reactors in land-sea interaction is insufficiently studied and assessed. In the frame of the proposed study, distribution and quantitative relevance of sedimentary services in the range of the German Baltic waters shall be mapped and modelled including projection of future scenarios with the aim to advance the development of management tools. This will be primarily realized by the functional assessment of those main sedimentary areas that are most relevant contributors to desired feedbacks to the environment and the society, and by a typology derived from these services. For key areas, key services and the entire outer coastal range of the German Baltic, an approach for the monetary assessment of the relevant ecosystem services will be designed and included in habitat maps. The project regionally complements an approach coordinated by Rostock University that studies the inner waters and the direct fringe of the Baltic coastline, and the project proposal NOAH (coordinated by HZG), which, for the North Sea, also applies the approach of geo-referenced functional mapping.

Publikationen

  • Gogina, M., J. R. Renz, S. Forster and M. L. Zettler (2022). Benthic macrofauna community bioirrigation potential (BIPc): Regional map and utility validation for the south-western Baltic Sea. Biology 11: 1085, doi: 10.3390/biology11071085
  • Van Dam, B., N. Lehmann, M. Zeller, A. Neumann, D. Pröfrock, M. Lipka, H. Thomas and M. E. Böttcher (2022). Benthic Alkalinity fluxes from coastal sediments of the Baltic and North Seas: Comparing approaches and identifying knowledge gaps. EGUsphere 2022: 1-23, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-161