Unequivocal VMEs and VME likelihood on the North Atlantic

Distribution of unequivocal Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and VME likelihood based on indicator taxa records, on the North Atlantic (18°N to 76°N and 36°E to 98°W). Several datasets, originating from public databases, literature review and data call to ATLAS partners, were gathered to compute the presence of unequivocal VME habitats in 25km * 25 km cells for the ATLAS work package 3. One layer displays the unequivocal VMEs (value=4) and the assigned high (value=3), medium (value=2) or low (value=1) likelihood of gridsquares to host VMEs, indexed on indicator taxa records from public databases with the method detailed in Morato et al (2018). The second displays the confidence associated to the VME likelihood score, indexed on data quality as detailed in Morato et al (2018) (values for unequivocal VMEs thus 100% confidence=4; high confidence=3; medium confidence=2; low confidence=1). This dataset was built to feed a basin-wide spatial conservation planning exercise, targeting the deep sea of the North Atlantic. The goal of this approach was to identify conservation priority areas for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and deep fish species, based on the distribution of species and habitats, human activities and current spatial management.

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Source https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng/Data/Catalogue#/metadata/3f14f4aa-ffaa-4152-865f-01be69048fce
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00460
Related Identifier https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3f14f4aa-ffaa-4152-865f-01be69048fce/attachments/References%20used%20to%20list%20the%20cold%20seeps%20ecosystems.pdf
Related Identifier http://vents-data.interridge.org
Related Identifier https://vme.ices.dk
Related Identifier https://deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov/
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.12770/3f14f4aa-ffaa-4152-865f-01be69048fce
Metadata Access https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/GEOCATALOGUE/fre/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetRecordById&Id=3f14f4aa-ffaa-4152-865f-01be69048fce&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd
Provenance
Creator Combes Magali; Vaz Sandrine
Publisher IFREMER
Contributor Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER (France)
Publication Year 2019
OpenAccess true
Representation
Version 1.0
Discipline Oceanography/Marine Science
Spatial Coverage (-98.000W, 18.000S, 36.000E, 76.000N)