Practical implementation of ecosystem monitoring for the ecosystem approach to management
Summary The implementation of the ecosystem approach means there is a need to monitor an increased range of environmental conditions and ecological components in the marine environment. Many existing monitoring surveys have successfully added tasks or components to an existing monitoring programme w...
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crwiley:10.1111/1365-2664.12648 2024-09-15T17:57:59+00:00 Practical implementation of ecosystem monitoring for the ecosystem approach to management Kupschus, Sven Schratzberger, Michaela Righton, David Blanchard, Julia Defra strategic evidence partnership fund Cefas Seedcorn funding 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12648 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2664.12648 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2664.12648 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1365-2664.12648 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2664.12648 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Journal of Applied Ecology volume 53, issue 4, page 1236-1247 ISSN 0021-8901 1365-2664 journal-article 2016 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12648 2024-07-18T04:25:53Z Summary The implementation of the ecosystem approach means there is a need to monitor an increased range of environmental conditions and ecological components in the marine environment. Many existing monitoring surveys have successfully added tasks or components to an existing monitoring programme while maintaining consistency of time series. This approach is not practical when the immediate data need for a wide range of ecosystem components requires substantial changes to the programme or when collections of different ecological components have conflicting requirements. We propose a more integrated approach aimed at not only assessing change, but simultaneously delivering evidence of the underlying reasons for observed changes. Using principles developed from observational and modelling efforts in the Barents Sea and the wider literature, we distil the essential characteristics an integrated monitoring programme must exhibit. We demonstrate how such an integrated programme can offer substantial operational efficiencies compared to a coordinated approach. Integrated monitoring based on ecosystem processes has significant advantages over the coordinated approach that uses ecosystem states independently and focuses on maximizing precision of each indicator. While integration is needed to address current policy requirements, changes to monitoring risk time‐series consistency. However, we explain how such risks can be minimized while at the same time establishing a framework that allows the incorporation of important information from other less flexible data sources to be used in the assessment. Policy implications . Process‐based integrated monitoring is essential for the ecosystem approach. The focus on ecosystem processes provides the essential elements for future proof efficient management: (i) It provides both unbiased status estimates for reporting requirements and describes the causes of state change. (ii) It minimizes risks to historic time series while coping with changing ecological conditions. (iii) It ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Barents Sea Wiley Online Library Journal of Applied Ecology 53 4 1236 1247 |
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Summary The implementation of the ecosystem approach means there is a need to monitor an increased range of environmental conditions and ecological components in the marine environment. Many existing monitoring surveys have successfully added tasks or components to an existing monitoring programme while maintaining consistency of time series. This approach is not practical when the immediate data need for a wide range of ecosystem components requires substantial changes to the programme or when collections of different ecological components have conflicting requirements. We propose a more integrated approach aimed at not only assessing change, but simultaneously delivering evidence of the underlying reasons for observed changes. Using principles developed from observational and modelling efforts in the Barents Sea and the wider literature, we distil the essential characteristics an integrated monitoring programme must exhibit. We demonstrate how such an integrated programme can offer substantial operational efficiencies compared to a coordinated approach. Integrated monitoring based on ecosystem processes has significant advantages over the coordinated approach that uses ecosystem states independently and focuses on maximizing precision of each indicator. While integration is needed to address current policy requirements, changes to monitoring risk time‐series consistency. However, we explain how such risks can be minimized while at the same time establishing a framework that allows the incorporation of important information from other less flexible data sources to be used in the assessment. Policy implications . Process‐based integrated monitoring is essential for the ecosystem approach. The focus on ecosystem processes provides the essential elements for future proof efficient management: (i) It provides both unbiased status estimates for reporting requirements and describes the causes of state change. (ii) It minimizes risks to historic time series while coping with changing ecological conditions. (iii) It ... |
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