Benthic habitat mapping on the Basque continental shelf (SE Bay of Biscay) and its application to the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Galparsoro, Ibon; Rodríguez, José Germán; Menchaca, Iratxe; Quincoces, Iñaki; Garmendia, Joxe Mikel; Borja, Ángel

doi:10.1016/j.seares.2014.09.013

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“…By using only acoustic data in our study the modeled variables produced (whilst not ground-truthed) are repeatable, provide outputs at a uniform resolution, and allow a consistent assessment of uncertainty to be made across the area (Mascaro et al, 2014). These properties are valuable when addressing questions of map interpretation (Steiniger and Weibel, 2005) and ecosystem status at regional scale (Walz and Syrbe, 2013;Galparsoro et al, 2015a). It is possible to use these data to produce categorical maps.…”

Section: Broadscale Seabed Mapping Using Opportunistic High-resolutimentioning

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Implementing and Innovating Marine Monitoring Approaches for Assessing Marine Environmental Status

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Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are relatively labor intensive per unit area/time that they cover. To implement the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), European Member States are required to improve marine monitoring and design monitoring networks. This can be achieved by developing and testing innovative and cost-effective monitoring systems, as well as indicators of environmental status. Here, we present several recently developed methodologies and technologies to improve marine biodiversity indicators and monitoring methods. The innovative tools are discussed concerning the technologies presently utilized as well as the advantages and disadvantages of their use in routine monitoring. In particular, the present analysis focuses on: (i) molecular approaches, including microarray, Real Time quantitative PCR (qPCR), and metagenetic (metabarcoding) tools; (ii) optical (remote) sensing and acoustic methods; and (iii) in situ monitoring instruments. We also discuss Danovaro et al. Innovative Approaches in Marine Monitoring their applications in marine monitoring within the MSFD through the analysis of case studies in order to evaluate their potential utilization in future routine marine monitoring. We show that these recently-developed technologies can present clear advantages in accuracy, efficiency and cost.

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Section: Broadscale Seabed Mapping Using Opportunistic High-resolutimentioning

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Implementing and Innovating Marine Monitoring Approaches for Assessing Marine Environmental Status

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“…The predominant seabed and water column habitat types can effectively be characterized in terms of a pragmatic selection of the major categories under the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) scheme (Cochrane et al, 2010;Galparsoro et al, 2012Galparsoro et al, , 2015 (Table 3). The biological communities associated with those habitats can then be addressed; thus extending the conceptual view from purely taxonomic entities to higher-level structural aggregations of taxa as part of their biotope (Olenin and Ducrotoy, 2006) (Figure 2).…”

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What Is Marine Biodiversity? Towards Common Concepts and Their Implications for Assessing Biodiversity Status

Cochrane

Andersen²,

Berg

et al. 2016

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Biodiversity' is one of the most common keywords used in environmental sciences, spanning from research to management, nature conservation, and consultancy. Despite this, our understanding of the underlying concepts varies greatly, between and within disciplines as well as among the scientists themselves. Biodiversity can refer to descriptions or assessments of the status and condition of all or selected groups of organisms, from the genetic variability, to the species, populations, communities, and ecosystems. However, a concept of biodiversity also must encompass understanding the interactions and functions on all levels from individuals up to the whole ecosystem, including changes related to natural and anthropogenic environmental pressures. While biodiversity as such is an abstract and relative concept rooted in the spatial domain, it is central to most international, European, and national governance initiatives aimed at protecting the marine environment. These rely on status assessments of biodiversity which typically require numerical targets and specific reference values, to allow comparison in space and/or time, often in association with some external structuring factors such as physical and biogeochemical conditions. Given that our ability to apply and interpret such assessments requires a solid conceptual understanding of marine biodiversity, here we define this and show how the abstract concept can and needs to be interpreted and subsequently applied in biodiversity assessments.

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“…Frameworks for the classification of marine habitats based on geophysical features of the environment have previously been proposed for Australia and other jurisdictions (e.g. Bax & Williams, ; European Commission, ; Galparsoro et al, ; Ramos, Puente, & Juanes, ; Roff & Taylor, ). The present research indicates that such an approach may be applied to estuaries too.…”

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Are geomorphological typologies for estuaries also useful for classifying their ecosystems?

Mahoney

Bishop

2018

Aquatic Conservation

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1. With the large number of estuaries within many jurisdictions, it is not always feasible to develop estuary-specific management plans. Typologies that identify ecologically similar estuaries may assist in delineating groups of estuaries across which common conservation strategies may be developed, where key threatening processes are also similar.2. Estuarine typologies have been implemented in many countries, but most are based on hydrology and/or geomorphology rather than ecology. This study assessed the extent to which an Australian estuarine ternary classification scheme, which assigns estuaries to geomorphic classes according to wave, tidal and riverine influences, also captures differences in the mosaic of habitat types present.3. An analysis of 352 Australian estuaries and coastal waterways, for which geomorphological classifications and areas of key habitats were available, revealed strong differences in habitat mosaics among geomorphic classes. These differences among classes in habitat mosaics were independent of the extent of anthropogenic modification.4. The areal extent of mangrove and saltmarsh habitats displayed particularly large differences among estuarine geomorphic classes, being greatest in tide-dominated estuaries and deltas, and being smallest in wave-dominated estuaries, deltas, and strandplains. 5.Overall, results suggest that geomorphic classification schemes may be useful in identifying groups of ecologically similar estuaries, for which common conservation strategies might be developed, depending on stressors. This approach will be particularly useful in developing management strategies for estuaries where detailed habitat maps are not available.

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Benthic habitat mapping on the Basque continental shelf (SE Bay of Biscay) and its application to the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

Implementing and Innovating Marine Monitoring Approaches for Assessing Marine Environmental Status

Implementing and Innovating Marine Monitoring Approaches for Assessing Marine Environmental Status

What Is Marine Biodiversity? Towards Common Concepts and Their Implications for Assessing Biodiversity Status

Are geomorphological typologies for estuaries also useful for classifying their ecosystems?

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