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 will respond accordingly.

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 Noise, their contribution to noise (from 0 to 1) is indicated in brackets:

• Ports (0.8)
• Total Shipping Intensity (1)
• Cables - during construction (0.5)
• Sand & Gravel Extraction (0.3)
• Oil & Gas Installations (0.2)
• Wind farms during construction (0.8)
• Wind farms (0.2)
• Wave Farms during construction (0.5)
• Wave Farms (0.1)
• Tidal Farms during construction (0.5)
• Tidal Farms (0.1)
• Recreational Areas (0.1)
• Pipelines during construction (0.5)

Types

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

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Baltic Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Baltic Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the Baltic Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Baltic Sea

Methodology

Coming soon

Types

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

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Clyde Marine Region here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the source.

Description

Enter the description of the Clyde Marine Region dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge.

Types

Adriatic Sea types here

Metadata

Data Source

Enter data source for Adriatic Sea here.

Original Title

Enter name of the layer at the Adriatic Sea source.

Description

Enter the description of the Adriatic Sea dataset here.

Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

Methodology

Enter here how the layer was prepared to be integrated into the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.