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    Guidelines for collecting citizen observations on non-indigenous species (NIS).

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    Date
    2021
    Corporate Author
    HELCOM
    Status
    Published
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    5pp.
    
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    Abstract
    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 Union 2014), European Union (EU) Biodiversity Strategy (European Commission 2011) and Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) of the EU (European Parliament Council 2008). However, most countries do not have governmental monitoring programs targeting the presence and abundance of NIS (Lehtiniemi et al. 2015), even though NIS monitoring is required by international legislations and is of great importance to national environmental management. Monitoring programs can be costly and often spatially and temporally limited (Delaney et al. 2008). Citizen observations can therefore improve the monitoring efforts by increasing the number of potential observers and therefore number of observations. Citizen observations are particularly useful in detecting seasonally occurring .....
    Resource URL
    https://helcom.fi/helcom-at-work/publications/manuals-and-guidelines/
    Publisher
    HELCOM
    Helsinki, Finland
    Document Language
    en
    Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
    14.a
    Maturity Level
    Mature
    Spatial Coverage
    Baltic Sea
    Citation
    HELCOM (2021) Guidelines for collecting citizen observations on non-indigenous species (NIS). Helsinki, Finland, HELCOM, 5pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1824
    URI
    https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/2029
    http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1824
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    • CAPARDUS Practices [147]
    • Citizen Science Practices [15]
    • HELCOM Manuals and Guidelines [49]

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