EU Horizon 2020 research project

Marine Coastal Ecosystems
Biodiversity and Services
in a Changing World

Science and tools to protect Europe’s marine and coastal ecosystems, and the people who depend on them, in a changing climate.

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Ecosystem models

Develop new empirical models on the interaction between climate change, biodiversity, functions and services in marine coastal ecosystems.

Climate scenarios

Establish a framework to assess the vulnerability of marine social-ecological systems under climate change scenarios.

Nature-based solutions

Evaluate the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and protection measures at enhancing the resilience of marine coastal ecosystems.

Policy guidance

Provide evidence-based guidance for marine policy and innovative research pathways to support cost-effective strategies.

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About the project

What is MaCoBioS?

MaCoBioS is an EU-funded project whose main objective is to ensure efficient and integrated management and conservation strategies for European marine coastal ecosystems to face climate change.

The EU Biodiversity strategy highlights the importance of halting the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The main challenge is to fill knowledge gaps on the inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to ensure an effective transfer of knowledge to stakeholders. Marine coastal ecosystems are European priority habitats: almost half of the EU population lives in its maritime regions.

Seagrass beds
Coral reefs
Mangroves
Coralligenous & maërl
Salt marshes
Kelp forests

Discover our work

Comic‘Waves of Hope’ is here!Our science comic about marine ecosystems and Nature-based Solutions.Read the comicToolboxThe Blue NBS ToolboxFive tools to design and implement marine and coastal Nature-based Solutions.Open the ToolboxWebGISExplore our maps onlineKelp, seagrass and Posidonia habitats, with climate scenarios for 2050 and 2100.Open the WebGISStory mapSalt marshesFrom muddy boots to satellites: our fieldwork told as a story.Start the storyEventBlue NBS Week, Paris5–7 November 2024: exhibition, conferences and workshops at UNESCO.Read the storySurveySurvey resultsPublic awareness of climate change and the value of marine and coastal ecosystems.See the results