MEECE Fact Sheets

MEECE fact sheet series is a dynamic and opportunistic knowledge transfer tool, delivering knowledge relevant to global science users (managers, science and policy advisors, NGOs, industry, etc.) and science practitioners, in a language that is clear, brief and focused on specific outcomes, action points, scientific advances and methodological developments.

The aim of the series is to communicate the science of the MEECE project to these target groups and promote its use in the wider management, policy and user communities to influence the global debate on issues relevant to climate change and marine ecosystems.

As well as a suite of generic fact sheets to highlight project outcomes, a number of fact sheets specifically addressing how MEECE science could be used to support the Marine Strategy Framework Directive process particularly in determining and assessing Good Environmental Status and indicator selection were written. These show per Descriptor how modelling and related tools can support decision making.

The full set of fact sheets are available in hardcopy, pleaes contact the project office to receive a copy.

MEECE: managing a changing environment	The MEECE Model Library	Taking the pulse of regional seas: the IndiSeas-MEECE initiative	Improving the evaluation of marine ecosystems environment status	Detecting alien algae invasions: the case of the Baltic
Management practices and a benign environment team up to recover a heavily exploited marine fish	Using models to support marine policy: The MEECE Model Atlas	Managing marine ecosystems in a changing environment	Expert systems for marine resource management

How modelling and related tools can be used to support the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Descriptors

This set of fact sheets highlight how models and related tools that have been developed during MEECE can be applied to help answer some of the difficult questions that need to be addressed in order to meet the objectives of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. A fact sheet has been written to address each Descriptor that was relevant to MEECE's activities. They provide examples and case studies of the kind of information that models can tell us and how they can be used to help define indicators of change or assess Good Environmental Status the key mechanisms of the MSFD.

Descriptor 1: Biodiversity	Descriptor 2: Non-indigenous species	Descriptor 3: Population of commercial fish/shellfish	Descriptor 4: Elements of marine food webs
Descriptor 5: Eutrophication	Descriptor 7: Alteration of hydrographical coniditions	Descriptor 8: Contaminants