Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology

Angel Borja (1) , Jesper Andersen (2) , Christos Arvanitidis (3) , Alberto Basset (4) , Lene Buhl-Mortensen (5) , Susana Carvalho (6) , Katherine Dafforn (7) , Michelle Devlin (8) , Elva Escobar-Briones (9) , Christian Grenz (10) , Tilmann Harder (11) , Stelios Katsanevakis (3) , Dongyan Liu (12) , Anna Metaxas (13) , Xosé Anxelu G. Morán (14) , Alice Newton (15) , Chiara Piroddi (16) , Xavier Pochon (17) , Ana Queirós (18) , Paul Snelgrove (19) , Cosimo Solidoro (20) , Michael St. John (21) , Heliana Teixeira (22)

1 AZTI - Tecnalia
2 IFRO - Institute of Food and Resource Economics [Copenhagen]
3 HCMR - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
4 University of Salento [Lecce]
5 IMR - Institute of Marine Research [Bergen]
6 KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
7 Macquarie University
8 C2O Consulting
9 UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico
10 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
11 University of Bremen
12 ECNU - East China Normal University [Shangaï]
13 Dalhousie University [Halifax]
14 Medio Marino
15 CIMA - Centre for Marine and Environmental Research [Faro]
16 Water Resources Unit [Ispra]
17 Cawthron Institute
18 PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory
19 MUN - Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada]
20 OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e di Oceanografia Sperimentale
21 DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark
22 JRC - European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra]

Frontiers in Marine Science launched the Marine EcosystemsEcology (FMARS-MEE) section in2014, with a paper that identified eight grand challenges for the discipline (Borja, 2014). Sincethen, this section has published a total of 370 papers, including 336 addressing aspects of thosechallenges. As editors of the journal, with a wide range of marine ecology expertise, we felt it wastimely to evaluate research advances related to those challenges; and to update the scope of thesection to reflect the grand challenges we envision for the next 10 years. This output will matchwith the United Nations (UN) Decade on Oceans Science for Sustainable Development (DOSSD;Claudet et al., 2020), UN Decade of Ecosystems Restoration (DER;Young and Schwartz, 2019), andthe UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs;Visbeck et al., 2014)

Keywords: human pressures; global change; ecosystem health assessment; ecosystem services; conservation and protection; ecosystem-based management; biodiversity; ecosystem functioning

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Ocean, Atmosphere; Environmental Sciences; Global Changes; Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental and Society

Angel Borja, Jesper Andersen, Christos Arvanitidis, Alberto Basset, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, et al.. Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020, 7, ⟨10.3389/fmars.2020.00362⟩. ⟨hal-02746285⟩