Marine ecosystems are affected by multiple anthropogenic drivers. Although these often operate in several interactive ways (e.g., cumulative, additive, and antagonistic) at various temporal and spatial scales, separate effects are better known than interactive effects.
The aim of this session is to present and synthesize some of the recent work carried out by ICES expert groups and discuss whether there is a need to establish a new group dealing with interactive effects of different drivers.
10.30 Introduction
10.40 Examples of the effects of interactive drivers from historical data
Ruth Thurstan and Emily Klein
10.50 Interactive effects of human drivers from the viewpoint of marine sediment extraction
Ad Stolk and Jan van Dalfsen
11.00 Determining cause-effect relationships between marine renewable energy developments and the benthic ecosystem at different scales
Andrew Gill and Jennifer Dannheim
11.10 How driver interactions may accelarate regimes shifts
Stefan Neuenfeldt
11.20 Challenges for setting management targets for ecological indicators under scenarios of climate change
Nikolaus W. Probst and Simon P.R. Greenstreet
11.30 SYMBIOSES: practical risk management tool to integrate fisheries and hydrocarbon activities in the Lofoten and Barents Sea, Norway
Daniel Howell, JoLynn Caroll, and Frode Vikebø
