RT Journal Article
T1 Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae
A1 Duffy, J. Emmett
A1 Bennedetti-Cechi, Lisandro
A1 Triñanes Fernández, Joaquín Ángel
A1 Muller-Karger, Frank Edgar
A1 Ambo-Rappe, Rohani
A1 Boström, Christoffer
A1 Buschmann, Alejandro H.
A1 Byrnes, Jarrett
A1 Coles, Robert G.
A1 Creed, Joel
A1 Cullen-Unsworth, Leanne
A1 Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo
A1 Duarte, Carlos M.
A1 Dino Fortes, Miguel
A1 Goni, Gustavo Jorge
A1 Edgar, Graham
A1 Hu, Chuanmin
A1 Huang, Xiaoping
A1 Hurd, Catriona L.
A1 Johnson, Craig
A1 Konar, Brenda
A1 Krause-Jensen, Dorte
A1 Krumhansl, Kira
A1 Macreadie, Peter I.
A1 Marsh, Helene
A1 McKenzie, Len
A1 Mieszkowska, Nova
A1 Miloslavich, Patricia
A1 Montes, Enrique
A1 Nakaoka, Masahiro
A1 Norderhaug, Kjell Magnus
A1 Mtwana Nordlund, Lina
A1 Orth, Robert Joseph
A1 Prathep, Anchana
A1 Putman, Nathan
A1 Samper-Villarreal, Jimena
A1 Serrao, Ester
A1 Short, Frederick
A1 Sousa Pinto, Isabel
A1 Steinberg, Peter David
A1 Stuart-Smith, Rick
A1 Unsworth, Richard
A1 Van Keulen, Mike
A1 Van Tussenbroek, Brigitta Ine
A1 Wang, Mengqiu
A1 Waycott, Michelle
A1 Weatherdon, Lauren
A1 Wernberg, Thomas
A1 Yaakub, Siti Maryam
K1 Biodiversity
K1 Seagrass
K1 Network
K1 Macroalgae
K1 Biodiversity observation network (BON)
K1 Essential ocean variables (EOV)
AB In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food for diverse and abundant biological communities and drive ecosystem processes. Seagrass meadows and macroalgal forests play key roles for coastal societies, contributing to fishery yields, storm protection, biogeochemical cycling and storage, and important cultural values. These socio-economically valuable services are threatened worldwide by human activities, with substantial areas of seagrass and macroalgal forests lost over the last half-century. Tracking the status and trends in marine macrophyte cover and quality is an emerging priority for ocean and coastal management, but doing so has been challenged by limited coordination across the numerous efforts to monitor macrophytes, which vary widely in goals, methodologies, scales, capacity, governance approaches, and data availability. Here, we present a consensus assessment and recommendations on the current state of and opportunities for advancing global marine macrophyte observations, integrating contributions from a community of researchers with broad geographic and disciplinary expertise. With the increasing scale of human impacts, the time is ripe to harmonize marine macrophyte observations by building on existing networks and identifying a core set of common metrics and approaches in sampling design, field measurements, governance, capacity building, and data management. We recommend a tiered observation system, with improvement of remote sensing and remote underwater imaging to expand capacity to capture broad-scale extent at intervals of several years, coordinated with stratified in situ sampling annually to characterize the key variables of cover and taxonomic or functional group composition, and to provide ground-truth. A robust networked system of macrophyte observations will be facilitated by establishing best practices, including standard protocols, documentation, and sharing of resources at all stages of workflow, and secure archiving of open-access data. Because such a network is necessarily distributed, sustaining it depends on close engagement of local stakeholders and focusing on building and long-term maintenance of local capacity, particularly in the developing world. Realizing these recommendations will produce more effective, efficient, and responsive observing, a more accurate global picture of change in vegetated coastal systems, and stronger international capacity for sustaining observations
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21191
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21191
LA eng
NO Duffy JE, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Trinanes J, Muller-Karger FE, Ambo-Rappe R, Boström C, Buschmann AH, Byrnes J, Coles RG, Creed J, Cullen-Unsworth LC, Diaz-Pulido G, Duarte CM, Edgar GJ, Fortes M, Goni G, Hu C, Huang X, Hurd CL, Johnson C, Konar B, Krause-Jensen D, Krumhansl K, Macreadie P, Marsh H, McKenzie LJ, Mieszkowska N, Miloslavich P, Montes E, Nakaoka M, Norderhaug KM, Norlund LM, Orth RJ, Prathep A, Putman NF, Samper-Villarreal J, Serrao EA, Short F, Pinto IS, Steinberg P, Stuart-Smith R, Unsworth RKF, van Keulen M, van Tussenbroek BI, Wang M, Waycott M, Weatherdon LV, Wernberg T and Yaakub SM (2019) Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:317
NO This is contribution 34 from the Smithsonian's MarineGEO Network. JT was funded by NOAA/OceanWatch & GG was funded by NOAA/AOML. This manuscript is also a contribution to the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, and to the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project, which is supported by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and Future Earth. The work leading up to the manuscript was funded in part under the US National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP RFP NOAA-NOS-IOOS-2014-2003803 in partnership between NOAA, BOEM, NASA, the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Program Office, and NSF. Specifically, the MBON work was funded through NASA grant NNX14AP62A to FM-K [National Marine Sanctuaries as Sentinel Sites for a Demonstration Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)]
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