A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program
Plankton are the base of marine food webs, essential to sustaining fisheries and other marine life. Continuous Plankton Recorders (CPRs) have sampled plankton for decades in both hemispheres and several regional seas. CPR research has been integral to advancing understanding of plankton dynamics and...
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ftarchimer:oai:archimer.ifremer.fr:80060 2023-05-15T15:17:44+02:00 A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program Batten, Sonia D. Abu-alhaija, Rana Chiba, Sanae Edwards, Martin Grahams, George Jyothibabu, R. Kitchener, John A. Koubbis, Philippe Mcquatters-gollop, Abigail Muxagata, Erik Ostle, Clare Richardson, Anthony J. Robinson, Karen, V Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie 2019-06 application/pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80060/83064.pdf https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00321 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80060/ eng eng Frontiers Media Sa https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80060/83064.pdf doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00321 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80060/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess restricted use Frontiers In Marine Science (2296-7745) (Frontiers Media Sa), 2019-06 , Vol. 6 , N. 321 , P. 14p.- Continuous Plankton Recorder zooplankton phytoplankton global monitoring biodiversity ocean observing essential ocean variables text Publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftarchimer https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00321 2021-09-23T20:37:31Z Plankton are the base of marine food webs, essential to sustaining fisheries and other marine life. Continuous Plankton Recorders (CPRs) have sampled plankton for decades in both hemispheres and several regional seas. CPR research has been integral to advancing understanding of plankton dynamics and informing policy and management decisions. We describe how the CPR can contribute to global plankton diversity monitoring, being cost-effective over large scales and providing taxonomically resolved data. At OceanObs09 an integrated network of regional CPR surveys was envisaged and in 2011 the existing surveys formed the Global Alliance of CPR Surveys (GACS). GAGS first focused on strengthening the dataset by identifying and documenting CPR best practices, delivering training workshops, and developing an integrated database. This resulted in the initiation of new surveys and manuals that enable regional surveys to be standardized and integrated. GACS is not yet global, but it could be expanded into the remaining oceans; tropical and Arctic regions are a priority for survey expansion. The capacity building groundwork is done, but funding is required to implement the GACS vision of a global plankton sampling program that supports decision-making for the scientific and policy communities. A key step is an analysis to optimize the global sampling design. Further developments include expanding the CPR for multidisciplinary measurements via additional sensors, thus maximizing the ship-of-opportunity platform. For example, defining pelagic ecoregions based on plankton and ancillary data could support high seas Marine Protected Area design. Fulfillment of Aichi Target 15, the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, and delivering the Essential Ocean Variables and Essential Biodiversity Variables that the Global Ocean Observing System and Group on Earth Observation's Biodiversity Observation Network have, respectively, defined requires the taxonomic resolution, spatial scale and time-series data that the CPR approach provides. Synergies with global networks exploiting satellite data and other plankton sensors could be explored, realizing the Survey's capacity to validate earth observation data and to ground-truth emerging plankton observing platforms. This is required for a fully integrated ocean observing system that can understand global ocean dynamics to inform sustainable marine decision-making. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Phytoplankton Zooplankton Archimer (Archive Institutionnelle de l'Ifremer - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer) Arctic Frontiers in Marine Science 6 |
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Plankton are the base of marine food webs, essential to sustaining fisheries and other marine life. Continuous Plankton Recorders (CPRs) have sampled plankton for decades in both hemispheres and several regional seas. CPR research has been integral to advancing understanding of plankton dynamics and informing policy and management decisions. We describe how the CPR can contribute to global plankton diversity monitoring, being cost-effective over large scales and providing taxonomically resolved data. At OceanObs09 an integrated network of regional CPR surveys was envisaged and in 2011 the existing surveys formed the Global Alliance of CPR Surveys (GACS). GAGS first focused on strengthening the dataset by identifying and documenting CPR best practices, delivering training workshops, and developing an integrated database. This resulted in the initiation of new surveys and manuals that enable regional surveys to be standardized and integrated. GACS is not yet global, but it could be expanded into the remaining oceans; tropical and Arctic regions are a priority for survey expansion. The capacity building groundwork is done, but funding is required to implement the GACS vision of a global plankton sampling program that supports decision-making for the scientific and policy communities. A key step is an analysis to optimize the global sampling design. Further developments include expanding the CPR for multidisciplinary measurements via additional sensors, thus maximizing the ship-of-opportunity platform. For example, defining pelagic ecoregions based on plankton and ancillary data could support high seas Marine Protected Area design. Fulfillment of Aichi Target 15, the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, and delivering the Essential Ocean Variables and Essential Biodiversity Variables that the Global Ocean Observing System and Group on Earth Observation's Biodiversity Observation Network have, respectively, defined requires the taxonomic resolution, spatial scale and time-series data that the CPR approach provides. Synergies with global networks exploiting satellite data and other plankton sensors could be explored, realizing the Survey's capacity to validate earth observation data and to ground-truth emerging plankton observing platforms. This is required for a fully integrated ocean observing system that can understand global ocean dynamics to inform sustainable marine decision-making. |
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Batten, Sonia D. Abu-alhaija, Rana Chiba, Sanae Edwards, Martin Grahams, George Jyothibabu, R. Kitchener, John A. Koubbis, Philippe Mcquatters-gollop, Abigail Muxagata, Erik Ostle, Clare Richardson, Anthony J. Robinson, Karen, V Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie |
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Batten, Sonia D. Abu-alhaija, Rana Chiba, Sanae Edwards, Martin Grahams, George Jyothibabu, R. Kitchener, John A. Koubbis, Philippe Mcquatters-gollop, Abigail Muxagata, Erik Ostle, Clare Richardson, Anthony J. Robinson, Karen, V Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie |
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A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program |
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A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program |
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