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Borja, AngelAndersen, Jesper H.
Arvanitidis, Christos D.
Basset, Alberto
Buhl-Mortensen, Lene
Carvalho, Susana

Dafforn, Katherine A.
Devlin, Michelle J.
Escobar-Briones, Elva G.
Grenz, Christian
Harder, Tilmann
Katsanevakis, Stelios
Liu, Dongyan
Metaxas, Anna
Moran, Xose Anxelu G.

Newton, Alice
Piroddi, Chiara
Pochon, Xavier
Queirós, Ana M.
Snelgrove, Paul V.R.
Solidoro, Cosimo
St. John, Michael A.
Teixeira, Heliana
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionMarine Science Program
Microbial oceanography Research Group
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Date
2020-06-03Submitted Date
2020-02-27Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/663906
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Frontiers in Marine Science launched the Marine Ecosystems Ecology (FMARS-MEE) section in 2014, with a paper that identified eight grand challenges for the discipline (Borja, 2014). Since then, this section has published a total of 370 papers, including 336 addressing aspects of those challenges. As editors of the journal, with a wide range of marine ecology expertise, we felt it was timely to evaluate research advances related to those challenges; and to update the scope of the section to reflect the grand challenges we envision for the next 10 years. This output will match with the United Nations (UN) Decade on Oceans Science for Sustainable Development (DOSSD;Claudet et al., 2020), UN Decade of Ecosystems Restoration (DER; Young and Schwartz, 2019), and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; Visbeck et al., 2014). First, we analyzed each published paper and assigned their topic to a maximum of two out of the eight challenges (all information available in Supplementary Table 1). We then extracted the 3–5 most cited papers within each challenge using two criteria: the total number of citations during this 6-year period, and the annual citation rate (i.e., the mean annual number of citations since publication). We then collated the topics covered by this reduced list of papers (Table 1) and summarized the outcomes for each topic.Citation
Borja, A., Andersen, J. H., Arvanitidis, C. D., Basset, A., Buhl-Mortensen, L., Carvalho, S., … Teixeira, H. (2020). Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00362Sponsors
This paper was contribution number 973 from AZTI's Marine Research; Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA). Heliana Teixeira thanks FCT/MCTES for the financial support to the host institution CESAM (UIDB/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020).Publisher
Frontiers Media SAJournal
Frontiers in Marine ScienceAdditional Links
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00362/fullhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00362/pdf
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10.3389/fmars.2020.00362