BONUS+ projects
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BONUS+ projects' key results to policymakers
BONUS+ briefing documents for policymakers (publishing date 24 October 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________A total of 16 projects involving over 100 research institutes and universities were funded (totaling EUR 22 million) through a joint call BONUS+ in 2007. It set out to test the mechanisms of collaboration among the national funding institutions.
In 2011, during their third and final project year, analysis of the obtained data and compilation of the research outputs are ongoing. The results of the projects were presented at the Baltic Sea Science Congress Joint research efforts for sustainable ecosystem management on 22-26 August 2011 in St. Petersburg.
The BONUS Forum on 24 October 2011 in Gdansk, Poland showcased the BONUS+ projects' key findings and next steps to decionmakers.
The projects' pages you can access by clicking on each project name below. There you will find a short introduction to the project, list of project participants and principal scientists, annual progress reports as well as a link to the project hosted own web page.
Works to separate the effects of climate change and human pressures on the coastal ecosystems by combining outputs of the regional climate scenarios and simulating the drainage basin processes Tests strategies for exploring and establishing causal links of pollutants, effects and status of coastal fish populations Assesses the genetic diversity situation in several Baltic key species and identifies the most significant pressures, investigates new ways to incorporate genetic biodiversity information into an ecosystem-based management of the Baltic Sea Employs advanced technology and novel combinations of approaches to develop a predictive model of gas accumulation and emission under realistic scenarios of climate change and eutrophication. It aims to understand how climate change and long-term eutrophication affect the accumulation and emission of methane and hydrogen sulfide from the seabed to the water column and atmosphere Attempts to establish the first-ever complete
carbon budget of the Baltic Sea. Investigates how climate change and human
impact alternate carbon fluxes in the ecosystem Examines
how to make shipping, as well as offshore and
coastal engineering activities environmentally safer by using new knowledge on semi-persistent
surface currents to avoid maritime activities where, in case of a spill,
dangerous substances can very probably be washed to the most vulnerable areas Tests possible cascading effect of comb jelly on the plankton foodweb in the Baltic - predation on cod eggs and larvae, depletion of plankton-eating fish food resources, changes in water clarity eventually leading to a regime shift of the whole system Develops tools needed to detect and understand human-induced pressure on the Baltic Sea ecosystem based on a broad range of biological effects of pollution | | Builds a complex modeling system dedicated entirely to untangling the combined effects of eutrophication and climate change in the Baltic Sea Estimates the required nutrient reduction in the Baltic region to maintain a healthy sea ecosystem taking into account future climate changes; synthesises information at an ecosystem scale and enriches the knowledge on processes leading to hypoxia, and the role the sediments and the benthic animals play in recycling nutrients Constructs an integrated risk analysis of ecosystem management in the Gulf of Finland related to fisheries, eutrophication, oil spills, dioxin risks related to the consumption of herring, and climate change Develops scenarios of the Baltic Sea development to the end of the 21st century by establishing the links between marine sediment markers and conditions in the sea, reconstructing the 6000 year development of the marine system based on these sediment proxies Develops powerful, precise and cost-efficient methods for spatial prediction of the biological properties of coastal underwater habitats, and combines predictive models and scenarios of human pressures to assess effects on coastal ecology Analyses the societal conditions for the effective protection of the Baltic Sea at national, macro-regional and the EU levels, using an interdisciplinary framework Develops and applies the modeling and decision making support tool to settle eutrophication over the entire Baltic Sea drainage basin Integrates social and natural science approaches to improve our understanding of the structures and processes that shape the governance of environmental risks and suggests a normative framework for improving environmental risk governance in the Baltic Sea |
Projects' progress summaries
Overwiew of the 1st year of projects' workOverview of the 2nd year of projects' work
