Systematic conservation planning for the North-Atlantic deep sea

Fish abundance and distribution Invertebrate abundance and distribution

This dataset was built to feed a basin-wide spatial conservation planning exercise, targeting the deep sea of the North Atlantic, in the framework of the ATLAS H2020 project. This approach aimed to inform Marine Spatial Planning and conservation initiatives for the deep sea of the North Atlantic, by identifying conservation priority areas for the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and deep fish species and discussing the efficiency of the current spatial management context relatively to conservation stakes. This publication provides (1) the links to spatial datasets used as an input, (2) the R scripts used to run the final conservation scenarios together with associated table of targets and connectivity matrix, that can be run on the input data, and (3) the outputs of the final scenarios constructed and computed for ATLAS. Produced by IFREMER.

Data and resources

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Script 1 : Create files for features and provinces - 10 KB

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Script 2 : Create cost indices - 10 KB

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Script 3 : Run scenarios - 37 KB

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Script 4 : Functions to create outputs used in script 3 - 8 KB

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Processed data

Table of conservation targets - 2 KB

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Connectivity matrix for the “connectivity with 20 days PLD” scenario - 7 MB

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Processed data

Spatial prioritization output: “base” scenario - 1 MB

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Spatial prioritization output: “connectivity with 20 days PLD” scenario - 823 KB

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Spatial prioritization output: “small base” scenario - 830 KB

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Spatial prioritization output: “management” scenario - 1 MB

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Supplementary spatial prioritization output: “all benthic regionalised” scenario - 1 MB

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Sensor metadata - 91 KB

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DOI of the product

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Additional information

Date (publication)	2019-09-10
Date (revision)	2021-05-12
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons - Attribution, No commercial usage, Sharing under the same conditions)
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show