作者
Tim P Bean, Naomi Greenwood, Rachel Beckett, Lauren Biermann, John Paul Bignell, Jan Brant, Gordon H Copp, Michelle J Devlin, Stephen Dye, Stephen W Feist, Liam Fernand, Dean Foden, Kieran Hyder, Chris Jenkins, Jeroen van der Kooij, Silke Kröger, Sven Kupschus, Clare Leech, Kinson S Leonard, Christopher P Lynam, Brett Phillip Lyons, Thomas Maes, Stephen James Malcolm, Paul McIlwaine, Nathan D Merchant, EE Nicolaus, Lucille Paltriguera, David J Pearce, Sophie Genevieve Pitois, Paul D Stebbing, Bryony Townhill, Suzanne Ware, Oliver Williams, David Righton
发表日期
2017
期刊
Frontiers in Marine Science
卷号
4
页码范围
263
出版商
Frontiers
简介
Marine environmental monitoring is undertaken to provide evidence that environmental management targets are being met. Moreover, monitoring also provides context to marine science and over the last century has allowed development of a critical scientific understanding of the marine environment and the impacts that humans are having on it. The seas around the UK are currently monitored by targeted, impact-driven, programmes (e.g., fishery or pollution based monitoring) often using traditional techniques, many of which have not changed significantly since the early 1900s. The advent of a new wave of automated technology, in combination with changing political and economic circumstances, means that there is currently a strong drive to move toward a more refined, efficient, and effective way of monitoring. We describe the policy and scientific rationale for monitoring our seas, alongside a comprehensive description of the types of equipment and methodology currently used and the technologies that are likely to be used in the future. We contextualize the way new technologies and methodologies may impact monitoring and discuss how whole ecosystems models can give an integrated, comprehensive approach to impact assessment. Furthermore, we discuss how an understanding of the value of each data point is crucial to assess the true costs and benefits to society of a marine monitoring programme.
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