“Our Recommendations:
- Longer funding cycles are needed to assess the recovery of deep-sea ecosystems.
- Increased commitment to fund pre-impact baseline surveys.
- Stronger, more explicit policy to support future monitoring efforts.”
Recht hat er damit! Schließlich ist die Tiefsee ein Ökosystem, in dem die biologischen Zyklen sehr langsam laufen und die Folgen der Ölpest darum noch sehr lange andauern werden: “In an ecosystem that measures longevity in centuries and millennia the impact of 4 million barrels of oil constitutes a crisis of epic proportions.”
Quellen:
Valentine, Marla M., and Mark C. Benfield. “Characterization of epibenthic and demersal megafauna at Mississippi Canyon 252 shortly after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 77.1-2 (2013): 196-209.
McClain, Craig R., Clifton Nunnally, and Mark C. Benfield. “Persistent and substantial impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea megafauna.” Royal Society Open Science 6.8 (2019): 191164.
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