Browsing HELCOM Manuals and Guidelines by Subject "Data acquisition"
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BALSAM Project 2013‐2015: Recommendations and Guidelines for Benthic Habitat Monitoring with Method Descriptions for Two Methods for Monitoring of Biotope and Habitat Extent.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2015)Work package 6 of the BALSAM Project dealt with Baltic benthic habitat monitoring methods and programmes useful for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This included both as-sessing the usefulness of monitoring ... -
Guidelines for coastal fish monitoring.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2019)Coastal fish communities are influenced by a plethora of impacting variables, including human-induced pressures related to overexploitation, climate change, eutrophication, contaminants, habitat degradation, effects of ... -
Guidelines for collecting citizen observations on non-indigenous species (NIS).
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)Monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) is required through several international agreements and guidelines, such as the EU Regulation on Invasive Alien Species (The European Parliament and the Council of the European ... -
Guidelines for monitoring of mesozooplankton.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)The mesozooplankton is a size fraction of zooplankton community (0.2 to 20 mm) that is addressed in the HELCOM- monitoring guidelines. Mesozooplankton constitute an important part of zooplankton in the pelagic food webs, ... -
Guidelines for monitoring Seal abundance and distribution in the HELCOM area.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2018)HELCOM Recommendation 27-28/2 tasks the HELCOM SEAL Expert Group to develop and coordinate monitoring programmes to, among other things, assess the abundance and distribution, and the trends ofthese parameters of the Baltic ... -
HELCOM Indicator Manual. Version 2020-1.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)The HELCOM indicators are a critical component of the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) and its approach to the assessment of good ecological/environmental status (referred to as ‘good status’ from here on) in the marine ... -
HELCOM Monitoring Programme Litter. Programme: Macrolitter characteristics and abundance-volume-floating litter.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)Monitoring is to be carried out to fulfill assessment requirements of HELCOM ecological objectives that are specified through HELCOM core indicators. The requirements on monitoring can include number of stations, the ... -
HELCOM Monitoring Programme topic Litter. Programme: Macrolitter characteristics and abundance/volume – Beach litter.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)The monitoring of beach litter started for most HELCOM countries in 2012, and has continued regularly since then. However, the countries have until now used different monitoring protocols for identifying and reporting beach ... -
HELCOM Monitoring Programme topic Litter. Programme: Litter in biota.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)Surveys on litter in biota are conducted to allow for an assessment of litter in biota in terms of amounts and composition of ingested plastic and numbers/frequencies of animals adversely affected due to litter, such ... -
HELCOM Monitoring Programme topic Litter. Programme: Litter on the seafloor.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)There is wide experience and data collected on litter in the seafloor and fishing gear/lost fishing nets in the HELCOM area. Seafloor litter collection is integrated to bottom trawling for fish stocks assessment, so therefore ... -
HELCOM Monitoring Programme topic Litter. Programme: Microlitter particle abundance and characteristics.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2020)A common monitoring strategy is missing because monitoring methods are under development, and a common approach needs to be agreed upon. Monitoring should enable the identification of artificial polymer particles from ... -
Manual for Marine Monitoring in the COMBINE Programme of HELCOM.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2017)Monitoring is since long a well-established function of the Helsinki Convention. Monitoring of physical, chemical and biological variables of the open sea started in 1979, monitoring of radioactive substances in the Baltic ...