Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas
Global biodiversity is in decline, with the marine environment experiencing significant and increasing anthropogenic pressures. In response marine protected areas (MPAs) have increasingly been adopted as the flagship approach to marine conservation, many covering enormous areas. At present, however,...
Published in: | Scientific Reports |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Nature Publishing Group
2016
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/7/srep33163.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33163 |
id |
ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:513250 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:513250 2023-05-15T13:49:32+02:00 Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas Hogg, Oliver Huvenne, Veerle Griffiths, Huw Dorschel, Boris Linse, Katrin 2016-10-03 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/7/srep33163.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33163 en eng Nature Publishing Group https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/7/srep33163.pdf Hogg, Oliver; Huvenne, Veerle orcid:0000-0001-7135-6360 Griffiths, Huw orcid:0000-0003-1764-223X Dorschel, Boris; Linse, Katrin orcid:0000-0003-3477-3047 . 2016 Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas. Scientific Reports, 6, 33163. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163 <https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163> cc_by_4 CC-BY Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2016 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163 2023-02-04T19:42:51Z Global biodiversity is in decline, with the marine environment experiencing significant and increasing anthropogenic pressures. In response marine protected areas (MPAs) have increasingly been adopted as the flagship approach to marine conservation, many covering enormous areas. At present, however, the lack of biological sampling makes prioritising which regions of the ocean to protect, especially over large spatial scales, particularly problematic. Here we present an interdisciplinary approach to marine landscape mapping at the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia as an effective protocol for underpinning large-scale (105–106 km2) MPA designations. We have developed a new high-resolution (100 m) digital elevation model (DEM) of the region and integrated this DEM with bathymetry-derived parameters, modelled oceanographic data, and satellite primary productivity data. These interdisciplinary datasets were used to apply an objective statistical approach to hierarchically partition and map the benthic environment into physical habitats types. We assess the potential application of physical habitat classifications as proxies for biological structuring and the application of the landscape mapping for informing on marine spatial planning Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Scientific Reports 6 1 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive |
op_collection_id |
ftnerc |
language |
English |
description |
Global biodiversity is in decline, with the marine environment experiencing significant and increasing anthropogenic pressures. In response marine protected areas (MPAs) have increasingly been adopted as the flagship approach to marine conservation, many covering enormous areas. At present, however, the lack of biological sampling makes prioritising which regions of the ocean to protect, especially over large spatial scales, particularly problematic. Here we present an interdisciplinary approach to marine landscape mapping at the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia as an effective protocol for underpinning large-scale (105–106 km2) MPA designations. We have developed a new high-resolution (100 m) digital elevation model (DEM) of the region and integrated this DEM with bathymetry-derived parameters, modelled oceanographic data, and satellite primary productivity data. These interdisciplinary datasets were used to apply an objective statistical approach to hierarchically partition and map the benthic environment into physical habitats types. We assess the potential application of physical habitat classifications as proxies for biological structuring and the application of the landscape mapping for informing on marine spatial planning |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Hogg, Oliver Huvenne, Veerle Griffiths, Huw Dorschel, Boris Linse, Katrin |
spellingShingle |
Hogg, Oliver Huvenne, Veerle Griffiths, Huw Dorschel, Boris Linse, Katrin Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
author_facet |
Hogg, Oliver Huvenne, Veerle Griffiths, Huw Dorschel, Boris Linse, Katrin |
author_sort |
Hogg, Oliver |
title |
Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
title_short |
Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
title_full |
Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
title_fullStr |
Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
title_full_unstemmed |
Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
title_sort |
landscape mapping at sub-antarctic south georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas |
publisher |
Nature Publishing Group |
publishDate |
2016 |
url |
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/7/srep33163.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33163 |
geographic |
Antarctic |
geographic_facet |
Antarctic |
genre |
Antarc* Antarctic |
genre_facet |
Antarc* Antarctic |
op_relation |
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513250/7/srep33163.pdf Hogg, Oliver; Huvenne, Veerle orcid:0000-0001-7135-6360 Griffiths, Huw orcid:0000-0003-1764-223X Dorschel, Boris; Linse, Katrin orcid:0000-0003-3477-3047 . 2016 Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas. Scientific Reports, 6, 33163. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163 <https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163> |
op_rights |
cc_by_4 |
op_rightsnorm |
CC-BY |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163 |
container_title |
Scientific Reports |
container_volume |
6 |
container_issue |
1 |
_version_ |
1766251525786566656 |