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Assessment of bottom trawl impacts on the status of seabed communities in European seas. <i>Fish Fish. 27(2)</i>: 285-299. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054</a>","BEntID":435613,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Fish Fish. 27(2)</i>: 285-299. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.70054</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Hiddink, Jan Geert; Valanko, Sebastian; Batts, Luke; Beukhof, Esther D.; Blomqvist, Mats; Bolam, Stefan; Calero, Belén; Casini, Michele; Delgado, Marina; Depestele, Jochen; Desmidt, Joanna; Di Bona, Gabriele; Di Lorenzo, Bianca; Dinesen, Grete E.; D'Onghia, Gianfranco; Egekvist, Josefine; Fanelli, Emanuela; Farriols, Maria Teresa; Franceschini, Gianluca; Gil, Juan; González‐Irusta, José Manuel; Laffargue, Pascal; Maina, Irida; Maiorano, Porzia; Mamede, Renato; Mangano, Maria Cristina; Xuan, Alessandra Nguyen; Papadopoulou, Nadia; Penna, Marina; Pierucci, Andrea; Pulcini, Marina; Raicevich, Sasa; Rakaj, Arnold; Reizopoulou, Sofia; Riva, Giada; Russo, Tommaso; Sala, Antonello; Sarà, Gianluca; Sbrana, Alice; Scarcella, Giuseppe; Sciberras, Marija; Sköld, Mattias; Smith, Chris J.; Sobrino, Ignacio; Spedicato, Maria Teresa; Todorova, Valentina; Tsikopoulou, Irini; van der Reijden, Karin J.; Vaz, Sandrine; Vina‐Herbon, Cristina; Vrgoc, Nedo; Wright, Katherine; Zhang, Wenyan; Zupa, Walter; van Hoey, Gert; Eigaard, Ole Ritzau; van Kooten, Tobias; van Denderen, P. 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The Black, Baltic and Aegean-Levantine Seas showed low trawling intensity and high seabed status across habitats. In contrast, the Western Mediterranean, Ionian and Central Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas were the most severely impacted. Trawling affected the sensitive species biomass fraction more strongly than the total community biomass. RBS<sub>tot</sub> was in good condition (here chosen as RBS &gt; 75% for epifauna) for over 79% of habitat-ecoregion combinations. In contrast, RBS<sub>sen</sub> met this threshold in only 46% of these. A strong correlation emerged between the mean trawling intensity and RBS<sub>tot</sub> and RBS<sub>sen</sub>, allowing the use of SAR to estimate ecosystem status. This relationship can support decisions on where, and by how much, SAR reductions are needed to achieve good environmental status in regions where no detailed assessment is available. 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