Ready conclusions and suggestions of the 1st CEA meeting, Marseille, 21 October 2014
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1st meeting of the CIGESMED Committee of External Advisors (CEA)
Marseille, 21 October 2014
Ready conclusions
The CEA members held closed-door discussion over the different topics. Preliminary assessments and recommendations from the committee are summarized as follow:
- General comment
- Whole scope of the project, particularly :
- Increase of our Mediterranean marine biodiversity knowledge
- Management oriented project
- Citizen science : high potential
- Challenge of designing a standardized protocol for the whole Mediterranean
- Suggestions from CEA
- Definition of the « coralligenous »
- More consistency in the terminology of GES? : ecological ? environmental ? And related issues. Necessity to clarify the concepts in relation to the different EU directives.
- Standardization of the survey methodologies as much as possible, in order to achieve a comparable assessment
- Index-Cor : focus on Metric 1, as a way to solve the possible problem of species heterogeneity between basins and sample sizes
- Highlight the importance to design a new protocol (added value)
- Quantitative / Semi-quantitative evaluation of pressures, in order to validate the index in an independent way
- Citizen sciences : important to pay attention to training people + NGO’s involvement (be used as trainers as well) + summer school + to think about the continuation of the network (strategy to be developed for the post project period : for example COST action)
- Promotion of the initiative to other Mediterranean countries (collaboration with Spain, Italy, Northern Africa,…) and RAC SPA
- Clearly explicit the data availability at the beginning of the project in order to be able to discriminate the factors (climate change vs anthropogenic pressures)
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