economic and social costs and benefits of development shipping accidents would have greatest impacts on scenarios, including cumulative impacts. It incorporates seabirds, pelagic oceanographic data and dynamics (e.g. temperature, salinity, fishes and marine mammals, with flow on effects to the whole and horizontal and vertical advection-diffusion) and 64 ecosystem, but only in a confined area immediately around functional groups (each group aggregates species with the The simulations allow whole-of-system incident’s footprint. similar management decisions to be tested in support of sustainable development. major shipping routes. Scenarios of high fishing had the greatest negative impact on relative biomasses of individual functional groups, while scenarios of ocean warming had the largest impacts on the indicators of ecosystem structure and integrity. Oil spills caused by potential Program Findings 2013-2017 37 GABRP:
economic and social costs and benefits of development scenarios, including cumulative impacts. It incorporates oceanographic data and dynamics (e.g. temperature, salinity, and horizontal and vertical advection-diffusion) and 64 functional groups (each group aggregates species with similar major shipping routes. Scenarios of high fishing had the greatest negative impact on relative biomasses of individual functional groups, while scenarios of ocean warming had the largest impacts on the indicators of ecosystem structure and integrity. Oil spills caused by potential shipping accidents would have greatest impacts on seabirds, pelagic fishes and marine mammals, with flow on effects to the whole ecosystem, but only in a confined area immediately around the incident’s footprint. The simulations allow whole-of-system management decisions to be tested in support of sustainable development. GABRP: Program Findings 2013-2017 37
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