SUSTAINMARE

Thus, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded the sustainMare Research Mission to adopt a combination of long and short term regional and local approaches to assess overarching human and environmental drivers and their impacts on marine regions and land-ocean transition zones... Stressors on marine and coastal environments can originate from natural changes superimposed on a combination of various human induced impacts... Human and environmental drivers (including changes in hydrographic conditions, physical disturbance and loss of habitats, non-native species, fish mortality, eutrophication, pollution, marine litter, sound from human activities, to name but a few) are highly variable both in type and on different temporal and spatial scales.