The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status?
Phytoplankton are crucial to marine ecosystem functioning and are important indicators of environmental change. Phytoplankton data are also essential for informing management and policy, particularly in supporting the new generation of marine legislative drivers, which take a holistic ecosystem appr...
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ftunivplympearl:oai:pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:10026.1/3762 2024-05-19T07:45:23+00:00 The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status? McQuatters-Gollop, A Edwards, M Helaouët, P Johns, DG Owens, NJP Raitsos, DE Schroeder, D Skinner, J Stern, RF 2015-09 88-97 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3762 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.010 en eng Elsevier BV ISSN:0272-7714 ISSN:1096-0015 E-ISSN:1096-0015 0272-7714 1096-0015 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3762 doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.010 Not known phytoplankton time-series ocean policy continuous plankton recorder climate changes journal-article Article 2015 ftunivplympearl https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.010 2024-05-01T00:05:12Z Phytoplankton are crucial to marine ecosystem functioning and are important indicators of environmental change. Phytoplankton data are also essential for informing management and policy, particularly in supporting the new generation of marine legislative drivers, which take a holistic ecosystem approach to management. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) seeks to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) of European seas through the implementation of such a management approach. This is a regional scale directive which recognises the importance of plankton communities in marine ecosystems; plankton data at the appropriate spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales are therefore required for implementation. The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey is a multidecadal, North Atlantic-basin scale programme which routinely records approximately 300 phytoplankton taxa. Because of these attributes, the survey plays a key role in the implementation of the MSFD and the assessment of GES in the Northeast Atlantic region. This paper addresses the role of the CPR's phytoplankton time-series in delivering GES through the development and informing of MSFD indicators, the setting of targets against a background of climate change and the provision of supporting information used to interpret change in non-plankton indicators. We also discuss CPR data in the context of other phytoplankton data types that may contribute to GES, as well as explore future possibilities for the use of new and innovative applications of CPR phytoplankton datasets in delivering GES. Efforts must be made to preserve long-term time series, such as the CPR, which supply vital ecological information used to informed evidence-based environmental policy. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic PEARL (Plymouth Electronic Archiv & ResearchLibrary, Plymouth University) Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 162 88 97 |
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Phytoplankton are crucial to marine ecosystem functioning and are important indicators of environmental change. Phytoplankton data are also essential for informing management and policy, particularly in supporting the new generation of marine legislative drivers, which take a holistic ecosystem approach to management. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) seeks to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) of European seas through the implementation of such a management approach. This is a regional scale directive which recognises the importance of plankton communities in marine ecosystems; plankton data at the appropriate spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales are therefore required for implementation. The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey is a multidecadal, North Atlantic-basin scale programme which routinely records approximately 300 phytoplankton taxa. Because of these attributes, the survey plays a key role in the implementation of the MSFD and the assessment of GES in the Northeast Atlantic region. This paper addresses the role of the CPR's phytoplankton time-series in delivering GES through the development and informing of MSFD indicators, the setting of targets against a background of climate change and the provision of supporting information used to interpret change in non-plankton indicators. We also discuss CPR data in the context of other phytoplankton data types that may contribute to GES, as well as explore future possibilities for the use of new and innovative applications of CPR phytoplankton datasets in delivering GES. Efforts must be made to preserve long-term time series, such as the CPR, which supply vital ecological information used to informed evidence-based environmental policy. |
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McQuatters-Gollop, A Edwards, M Helaouët, P Johns, DG Owens, NJP Raitsos, DE Schroeder, D Skinner, J Stern, RF |
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McQuatters-Gollop, A Edwards, M Helaouët, P Johns, DG Owens, NJP Raitsos, DE Schroeder, D Skinner, J Stern, RF |
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The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status? |
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The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status? |
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The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey: How can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of Good Environmental Status? |
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continuous plankton recorder survey: how can long-term phytoplankton datasets contribute to the assessment of good environmental status? |
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