TY - JOUR
T1 - Global observational needs and resources for marine biodiversity
AU - Canonico, Gabrielle
AU - Buttigieg, Pier Luigi
AU - Montes, Enrique
AU - Muller-Karger, Frank E.
AU - Stepien, Carol
AU - Wright, Dawn
AU - Benson, Abigail
AU - Helmuth, Brian
AU - Costello, Mark
AU - Sousa-Pinto, Isabel
AU - Saeedi, Hanieh
AU - Newton, Jan
AU - Appeltans, Ward
AU - Bednaršek, Nina
AU - Bodrossy, Levente
AU - Best, Benjamin D.
AU - Brandt, Angelika
AU - Goodwin, Kelly D.
AU - Iken, Katrin
AU - Marques, Antonio C.
AU - Miloslavich, Patricia
AU - Ostrowski, Martin
AU - Turner, Woody
AU - Achterberg, Eric P.
AU - Barry, Tom
AU - Defeo, Omar
AU - Bigatti, Gregorio
AU - Henry, Lea-Anne
AU - Ramiro-Sánchez, Berta
AU - Durán, Pablo
AU - Morato, Telmo
AU - Murray Roberts, J.
AU - García-Alegre, Ana
AU - Cuadrado, Mar Sacau
AU - Murton, Bramley
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PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health needs of billions of people. Yet there is evidence that the biodiversity of many marine habitats is being altered in response to a changing climate and human activity. Understanding this change, and forecasting where changes are likely to occur, requires monitoring of organism diversity, distribution, abundance, and health. It requires a minimum of measurements including productivity and ecosystem function, species composition, allelic diversity, and genetic expression. These observations need to be complemented with metrics of environmental change and socio-economic drivers. However, existing global ocean observing infrastructure and programs often do not explicitly consider observations of marine biodiversity and associated processes. Much effort has focused on physical, chemical and some biogeochemical measurements. Broad partnerships, shared approaches, and best practices are now being organized to implement an integrated observing system that serves information to resource managers and decision-makers, scientists and educators, from local to global scales. This integrated observing system of ocean life is now possible due to recent developments among satellite, airborne, and in situ sensors in conjunction with increases in information system capability and capacity, along with an improved understanding of marine processes represented in new physical, biogeochemical, and biological models.
AB - The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health needs of billions of people. Yet there is evidence that the biodiversity of many marine habitats is being altered in response to a changing climate and human activity. Understanding this change, and forecasting where changes are likely to occur, requires monitoring of organism diversity, distribution, abundance, and health. It requires a minimum of measurements including productivity and ecosystem function, species composition, allelic diversity, and genetic expression. These observations need to be complemented with metrics of environmental change and socio-economic drivers. However, existing global ocean observing infrastructure and programs often do not explicitly consider observations of marine biodiversity and associated processes. Much effort has focused on physical, chemical and some biogeochemical measurements. Broad partnerships, shared approaches, and best practices are now being organized to implement an integrated observing system that serves information to resource managers and decision-makers, scientists and educators, from local to global scales. This integrated observing system of ocean life is now possible due to recent developments among satellite, airborne, and in situ sensors in conjunction with increases in information system capability and capacity, along with an improved understanding of marine processes represented in new physical, biogeochemical, and biological models.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Ecosystem health
KW - Habitat suitability indices
KW - Indicators
KW - Thresholds
KW - Essential ocean variables
KW - Essential biodiversity variables
KW - Omics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069784197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fmars.2019.00367
DO - 10.3389/fmars.2019.00367
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85069784197
SN - 2296-7745
VL - 6
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Frontiers in Marine Science
JF - Frontiers in Marine Science
M1 - 367
ER -