User-oriented Solutions for Marine Biodiversity Management

B-USEFUL is a collaborative Horizon Europe project that aims to co-develop a set of user-oriented solutions and decision-support tools building and improving upon available European infrastructure for monitoring, data collection and ecosystem- based science advice.

More specifically, B-USEFUL will …

identify key end-user needs to support decision-making for spatial planning and sustainable management of European marine biodiversity and ecosystem services;

co-develop a set of operational indicators, targets and “what-if” scenarios of multiple interacting stressors acting on marine biodiversity and ecosystem services;

compile and standardize available data on marine species and habitats across areas and organism groups, as well as human pressures impacting marine biodiversity;

maximize the uptake and harmonization of available European data infrastructure for monitoring and assessing marine biodiversity;

advance our understanding of the adverse cumulative impacts of climate change and anthropogenic pressures acting on marine biodiversity;

quantify the risk, vulnerability and resilience of species, communities and habitats to human impacts;
provide a new model infrastructure to better characterize and forecast changes in marine biodiversity;
co-develop interactive, user-oriented tools and solutions for decision-making fitting the needs of marine spatial planning.