Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management
Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures, and provide a sensitive indicator of coastal ocean health, climate change, and ocean acidification, with associated implication...
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ftulancaster:oai:eprints.lancs.ac.uk:164854 2023-08-27T04:11:22+02:00 Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management Obura, David O Aeby, Greta Amornthammarong, Natchanon Appeltans, Ward Bax, Nicholas Bishop, Joe Brainard, Russell E Chan, Samuel Fletcher, Pamela Gordon, Timothy A C Gramer, L Gudka, M Halas, J Hendee, J Hodgson, G Huang, D Jankulak, M Jones, A Kimura, T Levy, J Miloslavich, P Chou, L M Muller-Karger, F Osuka, K Samoilys, M Simpson, S D Tun, K Wongbusarakum, S 2019-09-19 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/164854/ https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00580 unknown Obura, David O and Aeby, Greta and Amornthammarong, Natchanon and Appeltans, Ward and Bax, Nicholas and Bishop, Joe and Brainard, Russell E and Chan, Samuel and Fletcher, Pamela and Gordon, Timothy A C and Gramer, L and Gudka, M and Halas, J and Hendee, J and Hodgson, G and Huang, D and Jankulak, M and Jones, A and Kimura, T and Levy, J and Miloslavich, P and Chou, L M and Muller-Karger, F and Osuka, K and Samoilys, M and Simpson, S D and Tun, K and Wongbusarakum, S (2019) Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. ISSN 2296-7745 Journal Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftulancaster https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00580 2023-08-03T22:40:53Z Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures, and provide a sensitive indicator of coastal ocean health, climate change, and ocean acidification, with associated implications for society. Monitoring coral reef status and trends is essential to better inform science, management and policy, but the projected collapse of reef systems within a few decades makes the provision of accurate and actionable monitoring data urgent. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network has been the foundation for global reporting on coral reefs for two decades, and is entering into a new phase with improved operational and data standards incorporating the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) (www.goosocean.org/eov) and Framework for Ocean Observing developed by the Global Ocean Observing System. Three EOVs provide a robust description of reef health: hard coral cover and composition, macro-algal canopy cover, and fish diversity and abundance. A data quality model based on comprehensive metadata has been designed to facilitate maximum global coverage of coral reef data, and tangible steps to track capacity building. Improved monitoring of events such as mass bleaching and disease outbreaks, citizen science, and socio-economic monitoring have the potential to greatly improve the relevance of monitoring to managers and stakeholders, and to address the complex and multi- dimensional interactions between reefs and people. A new generation of autonomous vehicles (underwater, surface, and aerial) and satellites are set to revolutionize and vastly expand our understanding of coral reefs. Promising approaches include Structure from Motion image processing, and acoustic techniques. Across all systems, curation of data in linked and open online databases, with an open data culture to maximize benefits from data integration, and empowering users to take action, are priorities. Action in the next decade will be essential to ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Lancaster University: Lancaster Eprints Frontiers in Marine Science 6 |
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Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures, and provide a sensitive indicator of coastal ocean health, climate change, and ocean acidification, with associated implications for society. Monitoring coral reef status and trends is essential to better inform science, management and policy, but the projected collapse of reef systems within a few decades makes the provision of accurate and actionable monitoring data urgent. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network has been the foundation for global reporting on coral reefs for two decades, and is entering into a new phase with improved operational and data standards incorporating the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) (www.goosocean.org/eov) and Framework for Ocean Observing developed by the Global Ocean Observing System. Three EOVs provide a robust description of reef health: hard coral cover and composition, macro-algal canopy cover, and fish diversity and abundance. A data quality model based on comprehensive metadata has been designed to facilitate maximum global coverage of coral reef data, and tangible steps to track capacity building. Improved monitoring of events such as mass bleaching and disease outbreaks, citizen science, and socio-economic monitoring have the potential to greatly improve the relevance of monitoring to managers and stakeholders, and to address the complex and multi- dimensional interactions between reefs and people. A new generation of autonomous vehicles (underwater, surface, and aerial) and satellites are set to revolutionize and vastly expand our understanding of coral reefs. Promising approaches include Structure from Motion image processing, and acoustic techniques. Across all systems, curation of data in linked and open online databases, with an open data culture to maximize benefits from data integration, and empowering users to take action, are priorities. Action in the next decade will be essential to ... |
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Obura, David O Aeby, Greta Amornthammarong, Natchanon Appeltans, Ward Bax, Nicholas Bishop, Joe Brainard, Russell E Chan, Samuel Fletcher, Pamela Gordon, Timothy A C Gramer, L Gudka, M Halas, J Hendee, J Hodgson, G Huang, D Jankulak, M Jones, A Kimura, T Levy, J Miloslavich, P Chou, L M Muller-Karger, F Osuka, K Samoilys, M Simpson, S D Tun, K Wongbusarakum, S |
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Obura, David O Aeby, Greta Amornthammarong, Natchanon Appeltans, Ward Bax, Nicholas Bishop, Joe Brainard, Russell E Chan, Samuel Fletcher, Pamela Gordon, Timothy A C Gramer, L Gudka, M Halas, J Hendee, J Hodgson, G Huang, D Jankulak, M Jones, A Kimura, T Levy, J Miloslavich, P Chou, L M Muller-Karger, F Osuka, K Samoilys, M Simpson, S D Tun, K Wongbusarakum, S Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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Obura, David O Aeby, Greta Amornthammarong, Natchanon Appeltans, Ward Bax, Nicholas Bishop, Joe Brainard, Russell E Chan, Samuel Fletcher, Pamela Gordon, Timothy A C Gramer, L Gudka, M Halas, J Hendee, J Hodgson, G Huang, D Jankulak, M Jones, A Kimura, T Levy, J Miloslavich, P Chou, L M Muller-Karger, F Osuka, K Samoilys, M Simpson, S D Tun, K Wongbusarakum, S |
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Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management |
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coral reef monitoring, reef assessment technologies, and ecosystem-based management |
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Obura, David O and Aeby, Greta and Amornthammarong, Natchanon and Appeltans, Ward and Bax, Nicholas and Bishop, Joe and Brainard, Russell E and Chan, Samuel and Fletcher, Pamela and Gordon, Timothy A C and Gramer, L and Gudka, M and Halas, J and Hendee, J and Hodgson, G and Huang, D and Jankulak, M and Jones, A and Kimura, T and Levy, J and Miloslavich, P and Chou, L M and Muller-Karger, F and Osuka, K and Samoilys, M and Simpson, S D and Tun, K and Wongbusarakum, S (2019) Coral Reef Monitoring, Reef Assessment Technologies, and Ecosystem-Based Management. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. ISSN 2296-7745 |
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