Implementing and innovating marine monitoring approaches for assessing marine environmental status

Frontiers in Marine Science

Andrey A. Kurekin¹  Vincenzo Saggiomo²  Angel Borja³  Abigail E. Cahill⁴  John Kenneth Pearman⁵  Marco Lo Martire⁶  Silvestro Greco⁷  Kremena Stefanova⁸  Albert Renè⁹  Anne CHENUIL^1,10  Romain R.DAVID DAVID^1,10  Jean-Pierre FERAL^1,10  Esther Garcés^1,11  Isabel Ferrera^1,11  Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta^1,11  Josep M Gasol^1,11  Rodney Forster^1,12  Christian Wilson^1,13  Alice Newton^1,13  Nina DZHEMBEKOVA^1,13  Peter I. Miller^1,13  Sabine Cochrane^1,14  Sophie Genevieve Pitois^1,15  Susana Carvalho^1,15  Eugenio Rastelli^1,17  Stefan G.H. Simis^1,17  Snejana Moncheva^1,17  Antonio Dell'Anno^1,18  Cinzia Corinaldesi^1,18  Laura Carugati^1,18  Marco Berzano^1,18  Veselka Marinova^1,18  Priscila Goela^1,19  Sonia Cristina^1,19  Roberto Danovaro^2,20 

[1] Coastal Studies (IECS);AZTI, Marine Research Division Division;Akvaplan-niva AS;Albion College;Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA);CoNISMa;EcoReach SRL;Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE);Fish Behaviour Team, CEFAS Laboratory;Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE);Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC (ICM-CSIC);;Institute of Estuarine &Institute of Oceanology, (IO-BAS);Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, ISPRA;King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST);OceanDTM, Riverside Business Centre;Plymouth Marine Laboratory;Polytechnic University of Marche;Sagremarisco Lda.;Stazione Zoologica “A. Dohrn”;

关键词: molecular approaches;    Marine Biodiversity;    marine monitoring;    Marine Strategy Framework Directive;    in situ monitoring;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmars.2016.00213

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are relatively labour intensive per unit area/time that they cover. To implement the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), European Member States are required to improve marine monitoring and design monitoring networks. This can be achieved by developing and testing innovative and cost-effective monitoring systems, as well as indicators of environmental status. Here, we present several recently developed methodologies and technologies to improve marine biodiversity indicators and monitoring methods. The innovative tools are discussed concerning the technologies presently utilized as well as the advantages and disadvantages of their use in routine monitoring. In particular, the present analysis focuses on: (i) molecular approaches, including microarray, Real Time quantitative PCR (qPCR), and metagenetic (metabarcoding) tools; (ii) optical (remote) sensing and acoustic methods; and (iii) in situ monitoring instruments. We also discuss their applications in marine monitoring within the MSFD through the analysis of case studies in order to evaluate their potential utilization in future routine marine monitoring. We show that these recently-developed technologies can present clear advantages in accuracy, efficiency and cost.

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