Biodiversity in the Open Ocean: Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling (BOOMS)
Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)Increasing pressure due to anthropogenic drivers is leading to a reduction of global biodiversity and its associated benefits at the planetary scale. In open ocean (seafloor depth greater than 200 m) the most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss is fishing and extraction of seafood, with a lesser but rapidly increasing importance of climate change, …