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Geflügelte Geister der Ozeane: die globale räumliche Ökologie und Schutz der kleinsten und schwer erfassbaren Seevögel der Welt, der Sturmschwalben (Hydrobatidae & Oceanitidae), im Mittelmeer und im Nordostatlantik

Bei den globalen Veränderungen und deren Mitigation durch Umstellung auf erneuerbare Energiequellen (z. B. Offshore-Wind- und Solarparks) müssen nachteilige Auswirkungen auf die Lebensräume im Meer besser erkannt und vermieden werden. So hat die internationale Fischereipolitik in letzter Zeit der marinen Aquakultur Vorrang eingeräumt, um die globale Nahrungsmittel- und Ernährungssicherheit vieler Staaten zu gewährleisten, ohne deren tatsächliche Auswirkungen auf die Meeresumwelt zu kennen. Das Verständnis der räumlichen Ökologie freilebender Tiere, einschließlich ihrer Verbreitung, Bewegungen und Wanderungen, ihrer Phänologie und ihrer Ernährung, führt zu einer besseren Bewirtschaftung und Erhaltung. So können beispielsweise Bemühungen zur Erhaltung wandernder Populationen, die sich ausschließlich auf Brutgebiete konzentrieren, diese Populationen nicht vor Bedrohungen entlang der Wanderrouten oder in Nicht-Brutgebieten schützen. Tierbewegungen und Wanderungen sind auch deshalb wichtig, weil sie das Verhalten, die Lebensweise und sogar die Anatomie vieler Arten beeinflussen. Darüber hinaus kann sich das Wander- und Ernährungsverhalten innerhalb und zwischen den Arten und Populationen unterscheiden. Daher ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die auf jeder dieser Ebenen genutzten Routen und Nichtbrutgebiete zu ermitteln, zumal sie auch mit unterschiedlichen Bedrohungen verbunden sein können. Darüber hinaus kann die Untersuchung verschiedener Populationen auch dazu beitragen, zu verstehen, ob die räumliche Ökologie der Art durch genetischen und/oder Umweltvariablen bestimmt wird. Eine Möglichkeit, die Bewegungen und die Verteilung außerhalb der Fortpflanzungszeit bei wandernden Arten zu bestimmen, und zwar neuerdings auch bei den kleinsten Arten, ist der Einsatz von Geolokatoren auf Lichtniveau. Darüber hinaus können feinräumige Bewegungen mit dem kleinsten GPS-Gerät von nur 0,95 g verfolgt werden. Sturmschwalben (Familien Hydrobatidae und Oceanitidae) sind die kleinsten Seevögel und für die Forscher normalerweise nur zugänglich, wenn sie während der Brutzeit in den Kolonien an Land sind. Daher ist es besonders schwierig, sie außerhalb dieses Zeitraums zu untersuchen, wenn sie sich irgendwo auf dem Meer aufhalten und während dieser Zeit wandern und normalerweise ihr Gefieder mausern. Von den meisten Arten ist bekannt, dass sie sich während der Brutzeit bevorzugt von Ichthyoplankton und Zooplankton ernähren, und oft wird diese Beute zusammen mit einem relevanten Anteil an Mikroplastik verzehrt. Obwohl die Interaktion von Sturmschwalben mit anthropogenen Offshore-Aktivitäten teilweise untersucht wurde, zielt der vorliegende Vorschlag darauf ab, wichtige Erkenntnisse über die globale räumliche Ökologie dieser wenig erforschten Taxa zu sammeln und dazu beizutragen, Wissenslücken in Bezug auf die biologische Vielfalt der Meere und die anthropogenen Einflüsse auf sie entlang der europäischen Meere zu bewerten.

Der Einfluss von SO2-Immissionen auf den Stoffwechsel von Flechten als Bioindikatoren fuer Luftverunreinigungen

Wirkung von Schwefeldioxid auf Nettophotosynthese und Atmung von Flechten; Kartierung von Flechten im Stadtgebiet; Schwefel-Analysen in Flechten.

GTS Bulletin: FQMM80 EDZW - Forecast (details are described in the abstract)

The FQMM80 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (F): Forecast T1T2 (FQ): Other shipping A1A2 (MM): Mediterranean area (Remarks from Volume-C: WEATHER AND SEA BULLETIN FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (IN ENGLISH))

Oekologie und Zoogeographie mediterraner Gebirgsbachtiere

Das Projekt bezweckt die Untersuchung der oekologischen Bedingungen in Fliessgewaessern im Mittelmeergebiet unter den besonderen Bedingungen des Mediterranklimas, d.h. der langen sommerlichen Trockenperiode und damit in Zusammenhang der Anpassungsmechanismen der in solchen Baechen lebenden Tiere, vor allem der Insekten. Gleichzeitig erfolgt eine faunistisch-zoogeographische Auswertung der Ergebnisse. Die Arbeit erfolgt mit expeditionsmaessiger Untersuchungsmethodik. Einzelergebnisse werden laufend publiziert, Endziel ist eine monographische Darstellung in Buchform.

Population trend of bird species: datasets from Article 12, Birds Directive 2009/147/EC reporting (2013-2018) - INTERNAL VERSION - Oct. 2020

All EU Member States are requested to monitor birds listed in the Birds Directive (2009/147/EC) and send a report about the progress made with the implementation of the Directive every 6 years following an agreed format. The assessment of breeding population short-term trend at the level of country is here presented. The spatial dataset contains gridded birds distribution data (10 km grid cells) as reported by EU Member States for the 2013-2018 period. The dataset is aggregated by species code and country in the attribute CO_MS. By use of the aggregated attribute [CO_MS], the tabular data can be joined to the spatial data to obtain e.g. the EU population status and trend. This metadata refers to the INTERNAL dataset as it includes species flagged as sensitive by Member States. Therefore, its access is restricted to only internal use by EEA.

Seawater carbonate chemistry and maximum growth rates of Skeletonema marinoi and Alexandrium ostenfeldii, toxin composition of Alexandrium ostenfeldii in a laboratory experiment

Phytoplankton populations can display high levels of genetic diversity that, when reflected by phenotypic variability, may stabilize a species response to environmental changes. We studied the effects of increased temperature and CO2 availability as predicted consequences of global change, on 16 genetically different isolates of the diatom Skeletonema marinoi from the Adriatic Sea and the Skagerrak (North Sea), and on eight strains of the PST (paralytic shellfish toxin)-producing dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii from the Baltic Sea. Maximum growth rates were estimated in batch cultures of acclimated isolates grown for five to 10 generations in a factorial design at 20 and 24 °C, and present day and next century applied atmospheric pCO2, respectively. In both species, individual strains were affected in different ways by increased temperature and pCO2. The strongest response variability, buffering overall effects, was detected among Adriatic S. marinoi strains. Skagerrak strains showed a more uniform response, particularly to increased temperature, with an overall positive effect on growth. Increased temperature also caused a general growth stimulation in A. ostenfeldii, despite notable variability in strain-specific response patterns. Our data revealed a significant relationship between strain-specific growth rates and the impact of pCO2 on growth-slow growing cultures were generally positively affected, while fast growing cultures showed no or negative responses to increased pCO2. Toxin composition of A. ostenfeldii was consistently altered by elevated temperature and increased CO2 supply in the tested strains, resulting in overall promotion of saxitoxin production by both treatments. Our findings suggest that phenotypic variability within populations plays an important role in the adaptation of phytoplankton to changing environments, potentially attenuating short-term effects and forming the basis for selection. In particular, A. ostenfeldii blooms may expand and increase in toxicity under increased water temperature and atmospheric pCO2 conditions, with potentially severe consequences for the coastal ecosystem.

The influence of seawater pH on U/ Ca ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

The increasing pCO2 in seawater is a serious threat for marine calcifiers and alters the biogeochemistry of the ocean. Therefore, the reconstruction of past-seawater properties and their impact on marine ecosystems is an important way to investigate the underlying mechanisms and to better constrain the effects of possible changes in the future ocean. Cold-water coral (CWC) ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots. Living close to aragonite undersaturation, these corals serve as living laboratories as well as archives to reconstruct the boundary conditions of their calcification under the carbonate system of the ocean. We investigated the reef-building CWC Lophelia pertusa as a recorder of intermediate ocean seawater pH. This species-specific field calibration is based on a unique sample set of live in situ collected L. pertusa and corresponding seawater samples. These data demonstrate that uranium speciation and skeletal incorporation for azooxanthellate scleractinian CWCs is pH dependent and can be reconstructed with an uncertainty of ±0.15. Our Lophelia U / Ca-pH calibration appears to be controlled by the high pH values and thus highlighting the need for future coral and seawater sampling to refine this relationship. However, this study recommends L. pertusa as a new archive for the reconstruction of intermediate water mass pH and hence may help to constrain tipping points for ecosystem dynamics and evolutionary characteristics in a changing ocean.

Mediterranean Karst Aquifer Map 1:5,000,000 (MEDKAM) (WMS)

Karst aquifers constitute important freshwater resources, but are challenging to manage and to protect, because of their unique hydraulic structure and behaviour, representing continuous challenges for research and development. Karst aquifers are widespread and contribute to freshwater supply of most Mediterranean countries and many cities are supplied by karst water, e.g., Rome, Vienna, Montpellier and Beirut. These land surfaces correspond to the main recharge zones of karst aquifers, which are often hydraulically connected over large areas and are highly vulnerable to contamination. The preparation of the Mediterranean Karst Aquifer Map (MEDKAM) generally followed the workflow used for the World Karst Aquifer Map (WOKAM). A new lithological classification has been developed for the MEDKAM, similar to that of the WOKAM, which groups the geological units into four meaningful hydrogeological units: 1). Karst aquifers in sedimentary and metamorphic carbonate rocks. 2). Karst aquifers in evaporite rocks. 3). Various hydrogeological settings in other sedimentary and volcanic formations (karst aquifers are possibly present at depth). 4). Local, poor and shallow aquifers in other metamorphic rocks and igneous rocks (no karst aquifers present at depth).

Electron Transport System (ETS) Assay in the Atlantic Ocean

This dataset comprises measurements of microbial community respiration, derived from electron transport system (ETS) activity assays, in discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles. ETS activity (mmol O2 m⁻³ d⁻¹) was determined enzymatically as a proxy for aerobic microbial and planktonic respiration, and respiratory oxygen consumption (RO2, mmol O2 m⁻³ d⁻¹) was subsequently calculated by applying respiration-to-ETS conversion factors of 0.75 for samples from the epipelagic zone and 0.086 for samples from the mesopelagic zone. Each of the 219 sampling stations was additionally assigned to an open-ocean biogeochemical province following the classification of Reygondeau et al. (2018). Samples were collected at depths ranging from 5 m to 4539 m water depth during thirteen research cruises carried out between November 2006 and April 2025: RODA-I (2006), RODA-II (2007), CAIBEX and CAIBOX (2009), HOTMIX and PUMP (2014), FLUXES I (2017), TRATLEQ1/M158 (2019), e-IMPACT1 and e-IMPACT2 (2022), APERO (2023), MICOLOR2 (2024) and OceanICU (2025). The combined geographical coverage extends across the eastern boundary upwelling system off northwest Africa (Canary Upwelling System, Cape Blanc, Canary Eddy Corridor), the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, the equatorial Atlantic, and a transect across the eastern South Atlantic and equatorial Atlantic between Walvis Bay (Namibia) and the Canary Islands; the HOTMIX cruise additionally sampled the eastern Mediterranean Sea before transiting into the Atlantic.

Lipid class composition of mesopelagic fish from the North Atlantic Ocean and the Western Mediterranean Sea

Mesopelagic fish collected during 3 field campaigns in 2020 were analysed for their lipid content. The sampling was conducted on 5 main locations; 2 stations in the Western Mediterranean Sea (September/October), 4 stations in the North Atlantic off the Iberian Peninsula (October), 4 stations in the Irminger Sea (July), 5 stations in the Iceland Basin (July) and 4 stations in the Northern Norwegian Sea (May). The fish were collected at distinct depth intervals, with different trawl types depending on the vessel. The database consists of 28 mesopelagic fish species belonging to 9 families and 5 genera. For each record, length and wet weight of the fish analysed is recorded with the wax ester (WE), triacylglycerol (TAG) and phospholipid (PL) values as % of total lipids (TL). Each data record is associated with information on the sampling location, geographic coordinates, month and year of sample collection, sampling gear and depth, taxonomic ranks (phylum, class, order, family), and number and replicates analysed. The lipids were extracted following Folch's extraction method (Folch et al. 1957), which was implemented on whole fish or a weighted sub-sample of a homogenized whole fish. Individual lipid classes were separated by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC). A lipid sample was spotted onto silica-coated quartz rods, (chromarods; SES GmbH) and the lipid classes separated by development in two solvent systems: hexane/diethyl ether/acetic acid (60:17:0.2, by volume) followed by hexane/diethyl ether (96:4 vol/vol). The analysis was performed using an Iatroscan MK 5 TLC-FID analyser.

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