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99 – Societal – HGOG

The HG&OG Tool is an advanced interactive knowledge graph platform that unifies European legislation, organizations, and MARBEFES BBTs within a dynamic visual system. It merges institutional hierarchies with multilayered relational maps, revealing how laws, policies, agencies, and sectors interconnect across spatial and administrative layers.

75 – Economic – Stated preference method

Stated Preference methods are survey-based approaches to non-market valuation.

72 – Economic – Benefit-value transfer

This tool is a set of techniques to estimate the economic value of non-market ecosystem services at a target site when an original valuation study is not feasible due to constraints

71 – Economic – Hedonic pricing

Hedonic pricing involves examining the relationship between the price of a good or service and its environmental characteristics.

56- Ecological – EcoSEM

It is a tool that visually represents cause–effect relationships in ecosystems using causal path diagrams, capturing direct, indirect, and feedback effects. It then quantifies and tests these relationships with Structural Equation Models (SEM) to identify the mechanisms driving ecosystem functioning and service provision.

54-Ecological-Eutropy

EUTROPY is a fast, box-based model that simulates eutrophication processes under prescribed water and nutrient fluxes. It supports long-term ecosystem and management scenario analysis in aquatic systems.

52-Ecological-Molecular – metabarcoding eDNA

eDNA is a molecular ecology tool used to detect and monitor organisms by analysing genetic material they release into the environment.

51_Deriving faunal function from Zooscan imagery

ZooScan is used to derive individual size and biomass of benthic macrofauna from scanned images, overcoming limitations of traditional bulk biomass methods. It captures size-structure variability and allows individual biomass estimation from image surface area. These data support functional and metabolic ecosystem analyses through allometric relationships.

55-Assessing Trait-based Ecological vulnerability

This tool uses specific traits-driver relationships (natural and human) as indicators of the vulnerability of species across communities and of the functional implications of species’ responses to environmental change

60 – Cultural – Participatory research – interviews, focus groups, and arts-based workshops

This tool is designed to capture social perceptions and cultural values associated with ecosystems, particularly in coastal and marine contexts.

74 – Economic – BEACH Tool (Benefit Evaluation through Assessment of Component Habitats)

BEACH4MARBEFES estimates the spatial value of marine environments at sub-national scales using natural capital accounting and habitat mapping. It transfers national societal benefits to specific habitats and regions through a structured value disaggregation method.

53-Ecological-Molecular – telomeres

Telomere length used as a molecular indicator of sub-lethal stress in deep-water corals collected near aquaculture sites in Norway.
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