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MEDPAN

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EBSA - Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

Nature and species conservation sites & protected areas

• International Protected Areas (marine and coastal)

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Dec. 3, 2019, 11:47 a.m.

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Abstract

The EBSAs are special areas in the ocean that serve important purposes to support the healthy functioning of oceans and the many services that it provides. Scientific criteria for identifying EBSAs where defined in the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9): (1) Uniqueness or Rarity, (2) Special importance for life history stages of species, (3) Importance for threatened, endangered or declining species and/or habitats (4) Vulnerability, Fragility, Sensitivity, or Slow recovery, (5) Biological Productivity, (6) Biological Diversity (7) Naturalness.
Please cite the dataset as follows: MAPAMED, the database on Sites of interest for the conservation of marine environment in the Mediterranean Sea. MedPAN, UNEP/MAP/RAC-SPA. May 2016 release.

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Attribute Name	Label	Description
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Workshop
EBSA_ID
GLOBAL_ID

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Language: English
Supplemental Information: The data was provided by MAPAMED (Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean). A GIS database that gathers information on marine protected areas of the Medi...
Spatial Representation Type: vector mixed