Assessing coastal benthic macrofauna community condition using best professional judgement – Developing consensus across North America and Europe

Teixeira, Heliana; Borja, Ángel; Weisberg, Stephen B.; Ranasinghe, J. Ananda; Cadien, Donald B.; Dauer, Daniel M.; Dauvin, Jean–Claude; Degraer, S.; Díaz, Robert J.; Grémare, Antoine; Karakassis, Ioannis; Llansó, Roberto J.; Lovell, Lawrence L.; Marques, João Carlos; Montagne, David E.; Occhipinti‐Ambrogi, Anna; Rosenberg, Rutger; Sardá, Rafael; Schaffner, Linda C.; Velarde, Ronald G.

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“…by finding a physical control area, hindcasting, predictive modelling or the use of the best professional judgement (BPJ) (e.g. Hering, et al, 2010;Teixeira et al, 2010;Borja et al, 2012). Although the use of pristine areas or the least disturbed areas is the preferred method in setting reference conditions, it is recognised that pristine transitional habitats are rare in Europe.…”

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Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive

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Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive

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“…The designation of a species to an ecological group is drawn from the extensive literature on species in marine and transitional waters, supplemented by the consensus judgement of experts, with the index based on the relative abundances of species in each ecological group (Borja et al, 2000;Teixeira et al, 2010). The index has become an important element for assessing the ecological status of marine and transitional waters under the European Water Framework Directive, either alone or in combination with other metrics, such as species richness and Shannon-Wiener diversity (e.g.…”

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Can biotic indicators distinguish between natural and anthropogenic environmental stress in estuaries?

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Please cite this article as: Tweedley, J.R., Warwick, R.M., Potter, I.C., Can biotic indicators distinguish between natural and anthropogenic environmental stress in estuaries?, Journal of Sea Research (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.seares. 2015.04.001 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. significantly between estuarine and coastal environments, i.e. they were unaffected by natural differences between these two environments, but both were significantly correlated with overall heavy metal concentrations. Furthermore, Δ + was correlated significantly with the Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg and Pb concentrations and Λ + was correlated significantly with the Cr, Ni, Cu, Cd and Hg concentrations. Thus, one or both of these two taxonomic distinctness indices are significantly correlated with the concentrations for each of these seven heavy metals. These taxonomic distinctness indices are therefore considered appropriate indicators of anthropogenic disturbance in estuaries, as they allow a regional reference condition to be set from which significant departures can then be determined.

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“…However, cartographic applications for the implementation of EBM are still scarce; recent examples have been based on expert judgment and modelling [41,42]. The main goal of these recent applications is to describe and visually represent the relationships between human pressures and the status of coastal ecosystems, thus allowing for a comparison of the expected effects of different management solutions on coastal ecosystems [42].…”

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The Challenge of Managing Marine Biodiversity: A Practical Toolkit for a Cartographic, Territorial Approach

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An approach to the management of marine biodiversity was developed based on two levels of environmental diagnostics: (1) the characterization (to identify types), and (2) the evaluation (to define status and values). Both levels involve the production of maps, namely: (i) morphobathymetry and sedimentology; (ii) habitats; (iii) natural emergencies; (iv) degradation and risk; (v) weighted vulnerability; (vi) environmental quality; and, (vii) susceptibility to use. A general methodological aspect that must be stated first is the need of dividing the mapped area in territorial units corresponding to submultiples of the UTM grid and having different sizes according to the scale adopted. Territorial units (grid cells) are assigned to one of five classes of evaluation, ranging from high necessity of conservation or protection to non-problematic, unimportant or already compromised (according to the specific map) situations. Depending on the scale, these maps are suited OPEN ACCESSDiversity 2012, 4 420 for territorial planning (small scales, allowing for a synoptic view) or for administration and decision making (large scales, providing detail on local situations and problems). Mapping should be periodically repeated (diachronic cartography) to assure an efficient tool for integrated coastal zone management.

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Assessing coastal benthic macrofauna community condition using best professional judgement – Developing consensus across North America and Europe

Cited by 78 publications

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Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive

Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive

Can biotic indicators distinguish between natural and anthropogenic environmental stress in estuaries?

The Challenge of Managing Marine Biodiversity: A Practical Toolkit for a Cartographic, Territorial Approach

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