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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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:13797db 2023-05-15T15:19:06+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 Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie 2019-06-14 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:13797db eng eng Frontiers Research Foundation doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00321 issn:2296-7745 orcid:0000-0002-9289-7366 NE/R002738/1 SAH01001 NE/R015953/1 NE/L002663/2 NE/L002663/1 Phytoplankton Biomass Recorder Survey North-Atlantic Data Set Zooplankton Coastal Biodiversity Ecosystems Contribute Patterns 1104 Aquatic Science 1910 Oceanography 2212 Ocean Engineering 2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2306 Global and Planetary Change 2312 Water Science and Technology Journal Article 2019 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00321 2020-12-08T06:26:59Z 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 North Atlantic Phytoplankton Zooplankton The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Arctic Frontiers in Marine Science 6 |
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Phytoplankton Biomass Recorder Survey North-Atlantic Data Set Zooplankton Coastal Biodiversity Ecosystems Contribute Patterns 1104 Aquatic Science 1910 Oceanography 2212 Ocean Engineering 2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2306 Global and Planetary Change 2312 Water Science and Technology 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 Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie A global plankton diversity monitoring program |
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Phytoplankton Biomass Recorder Survey North-Atlantic Data Set Zooplankton Coastal Biodiversity Ecosystems Contribute Patterns 1104 Aquatic Science 1910 Oceanography 2212 Ocean Engineering 2301 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2306 Global and Planetary Change 2312 Water Science and Technology |
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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 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 Takahashi, Kunio T. Verheye, Hans M. Wilson, Willie |
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A global plankton diversity monitoring program |
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