Artificial Substrate

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Artificial Substrate

File:Layer Artificial Substrate.png
Layer Info
Category	Ecology
Sub-category	Pressure

Description

Artificial substrate (sometimes referred to as artificial habitat) is a human-made or synthetic environment in which an organism lives, or the surface or medium on which an organism grows or is attached.

MSP Challenge

The artificial substrate pressure is calculated on a month-by-month basis considering the activities running (or planned) in the sea basin. The contribution from each human activity to the total artificial substrate in the sea region is defined from 0 (no impact) to 1 (full impact) by expert knowledge.

Artificial substrate is subsequently a pressure on the ecosystem. This means that this data layer is fed into the ecosystem simulation (EwE), and the ecosystem simulation will provide the users with the expected response from the species in the ecossystem.

Return to pressures.

Types

• Very Low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Very High

Metadata

Not applicable. This layer is calculated by the system.

In the North Sea the following data layers contribute to Artificial Substrate, their contribution to Artificial Substrate (from 0 to 1) is indicated in brackets:

• Ports (0.8)
• Wind farms (0.4)
• Tidal Farms (0.2)
• Oil & Gas Installations (0.2)
• Wave Farms (0.1)
• Cables (0.1)
• Pipelines (0.1)
• Aquaculture (0.1)

Types

• Very low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Very high

Metadata

Not applicable. This layer is calculated by the system.

In the Baltic Sea the following data layers contribute to Artificial Substrate, their contribution to Artificial Substrate (from 0 to 1) is indicated in brackets:

• Ports (0.8)
• Oil & Gas Platforms (0.5)
• Aquaculture (0.3)
• Wind Farms (0.3)
• Pipelines (0.2)

Types

• Extremely Low
• Low
• Medium
• High
• Extra High

Metadata

Not applicable. This layer is calculated by the system.

In the Clyde Marine Region the following data layers contribute to Artificial Substrate, their contribution to Artificial Substrate (from 0 to 1) is indicated in brackets:

• Ports (0.1)
• Shellfish Farms (0.1)
• Fish Farms (0.1)
• Wind Farms (0.4)
• Cables (0.1)
  

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea Edition.