Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa The MEDINA e-Infrastructure: enhancing ongoing monitoring and assessment of marine ecosystems in North Africa Roberto Pastres, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice pastres@unive. it medinaproject@unive. it Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa 1 Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia (UNIVE) IT 2 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) ES 3 Universidade Pablo de Olavide (UPO) ES 4 Université Abdelmalek ESSAADI (UAE-FPL) 5 Joint Research Centre - EC (JRC) 6 7 National Inst. for Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF) Union International pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses ressources (IUCN) Morocco EU Egypt CH 8 Commissariat National du Littoral (CNL) 9 Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) 10 ACRI Etudes et Conseil (ACRI) Morocco 11 European Space Agency (ESA) FR 12 CNR -IIA Istituto sull’Inquinamento Atmosferico IT Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977 Algeria GB

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa MEDINA Overall objectives: -To contribute to the assessment of coastal ecosystem status in North African countries; -To enhance the monitoring capacity in the region. -To feedback MEDINA’s scientific contribution within the EU regulatory framework. -To ensure the optimal exploitation of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) in supporting on going monitoring&assessment Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa MEDINA’s key features: -Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response conceptual framework for on-going monitoring and assessment. -Use of models (biogeochemical, Species Distribution, Food Web etc …. ) for relating Drivers/Pressures to State/Impacts. -Fusion of remotely-sensed and in-situ observation, through modelling, for monitoring optimization. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Monitoring is entrusted to several institutions! Morocco Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa The MEDINA e-Infrastructure is building a bridge between the National Monitoring Capacity and the resources made available by the GCI. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa What is the MEDINA e-Infrastructure? • Infrastructure that supports access to geographic interoperable spatial information. • Distributed geographic database, based on standardized protocols, to ensure interoperability. • A tool to disseminate Medina products. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Main features and components of the Me. I FEATURE (i. e. what? ) COMPONENT (i. e. how? ) DISCOVERY CATALOG VISUALIZATION MAP SERVICES (WMS), ONLINE VIEWER, DELIVERY DATA ACCESS MAP SERVICES (WFS, WCS)

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Me. I conceptual model Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Me. I: stage of development -The basic structure of the reference catalogue for the Medina e-Infrastructure (Me. I) has been defined; -The Me. I is operational and is being populated ; - Pilot cases: an Architecture Implementation Pilot has been developed (Species Distribution Model for Posidonia oceanica): see video. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa http: //www. medinageoportal. eu/ The Medina e‐Infrastructure viewer is designed to improve visualisation and analysis of spatial data through tools such as: zoom in and out, pre‐defined selection of areas, a tool for adjust layers transparency. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa The GEOSS searching tool allows the user to look for specific environmental topics among the GEOSS Data Catalogue and the Medina catalogue, thereby assuring the exploitation of the GEOSS GCI resources. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa The Me. I data catalogue groups the indicators within three categories: Ecological Objectives and DPSIR, Modelling Outputs and Earth Observations Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa MEDINA contribution to the implementation of UNEP-MAP Ec. Ap Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Progress towards ECAP entails important challenges for all Mediterranean countries: The approach is complex and a huge monitoring effort is required to assess the ecosystem status in relation to GES for all the 11 Ec. Os. MEDINA will focus on 3 Ec. Os that are relevant for the area and can be addressed (fully or partially) by remotely sensed EO and modelling : Ec. O 1 Biodiversity Ec. O 5 Eutrophication Ec. O 9 Contaminant Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa MEDINA contribution to the implementation of UNEP-MAP Ec. Ap Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Oceanic fronts as “deep sea habitat in Ec. Ap” : dynamic boundaries between water mass with a larger-than-average horizontal gradient in property like temperature, colour, salinity or turbidity Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa AIP 6: DEVELOPMENT OF A POSIDONIA DISTRIBUTION MODEL (Po. SDM) AVAILABLE THROUGH GEOSS COMMON INFRASTRUCTURE (GCI) DM Posidonia oceanica Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Why a Posidonia DM? Species Distribution Model (or Habitat Suitability Model, HSM) are often used to integrate or extrapolate sparse occurrence data (Elith & Leathwick, 2009). The application of the Posidonia DM provides an estimate of the potential extension of the Posidonia habitat, thus allowing the estimation of one key UNEP-MAP operational objective and related indicators, namely, OO 1. 4 (Key coastal and marine habitats are not being lost) Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa GEOSS BROKER: http: //www. eurogeoss-broker. eu/ Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Po. DM - Posidonia oceanica distribution model - Development Tuscany Balearic Island Campania Apulia 3) Calibration sites Data coupling (Inputs) P. oceanica presence Posidonia Kd Chl … Kd; Euphotic depth; Chl; CDM (EMIS EOs) SST(Aqua-MODIS) PAR (Sea. Wi. FS) Bathymetry (GEBCO) 3/18/2018 Effects on P. oceanica probability of presence Calabria Model calibration (Binomial Generalized Additive Model) 22

Po. DM – 4) Model Testing Pilot Case Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia) Input data Bathymetry (m) Chlorophyll –a (g m-2) Par (Einstein m-2 day-1) Model Prediction (probability of presence) Light coef. Extinction (m-1) SST(°C) Sea-truth distribution (Zaouali, 1993) 3/18/2018 23

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa 5) Implementation of the model on the basis of raster files showing the environmental variables for the entire Mediterranean region. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977

Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa Next steps - The Me. I will be populated with the results of the regional ecosystem assessement and those concerning five test areas (Pilot Cases) -The Me. I will be presented to monitoring agencies and stakeholders at four National workshops, to be held in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia in May-June 2014. Meetings will be focused on Ec. Ap implementation. Project supported by the EC under FP 7 -ENV-2011 -1 n° 282977