ECOBPSS Practices: Recent submissions
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MEDIN data guideline for photo-identification of cetaceans and surface swimming sharks Version 3.1.
(MEDIN, 2010)This guideline covers the recording of data collected using photo-identification techniques and is based on the protocol developed by CCW. It covers both the raw data from such sampling, and the methodologies to be used ... -
IWC photo-identification catalogues: draft guidelines.
(International Whaling Commission, Impington, UK, 2017)The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has a history of using data and analyses from photo-identification catalogues to assist with its work. (Within this document the term ‘photo-ID catalogue’ describes a database ... -
Guidelines for genetic data analysis.
(2018)The IWC Scientific Committee recently adopted guidelines for quality control of DNA data. Once data have been collected, the next step is to analyse the data and make inferences that are useful for addressing practical ... -
JCDP Data Collection Guidance: Collecting JCDP Compliant Cetacean Survey Data (version 1).
(Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, UK, 2022)Mobile marine species, including cetaceans, offer a considerable challenge when attempting to assesses abundance and distribution. Cetaceans can be cryptic and visual survey methods must take into account the limited ... -
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 ... -
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: 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 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 ... -
Guideline for underwater noise: Installation of impact or vibratory driven piles.
(Danish Energy Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022)This Guideline concerns underwater noise in relation to the construction of offshore wind in Danish waters. Technical methods are presented for performing numerical prognosis and measurements. Also, sets of acoustic criteria ... -
JAMP Eutrophication Monitoring Guidelines: Benthos (OSPAR Agreement 2012-12).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2012)bottom macrozoobenthos) generally occur in recognisable states, depending on the substrate, depth, wave exposure and salinity etc. Macrobenthic communities are an appropriate target for monitoring since: a) an important ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator: Condition of benthic habitat communities (BH2) – common approach. OSPAR Agreement 2018-06. Updated 2022/2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)These guidelines outline the monitoring and assessment requirements for the OSPAR common approach: “condition of benthic habitat communities (BH2)”. More detailed technical specifications for this indicator are in Annex ... -
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 ... -
European seagrasses: an introduction to monitoring and management.
(Monitoring and Managing of European Seagrasses Project, 2004)With this booklet, we aim to give environmental managers a basic introduction to monitoring and management of European seagrasses. Several countries already have established comprehensive and advanced monitoring programmes ... -
SeagrassNet Manual for Scientific Monitoring of Seagrass Habitat, Worldwide edition.
(University of New Hampshire, SeagrassNet, Durham, N.H., 2015)SeagrassNet is a scientific global monitoring program based at the University of New Hampshire that investigates and documents the status of seagrass resources worldwide and the threats to this important and imperilled ... -
Volunteer Seabirds At Sea Survey Methods,
(Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, UK, 2020)This document is designed as an aide-memoir to those taking part in JNCC’s Volunteer Seabirds at Sea (VSAS) survey programme but would also be useful to anyone using a distance sampling method to conduct bird or cetacean ... -
Guidelines for the long term Monitoring programmes for marine turtles nesting beaches and standardized monitoring methods for nesting beaches, feeding and wintering areas.
(United Nations Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA), Tunis, Tunisia, 2017)This Guideline describes and suggests improvement on the methodology for the long-term standardized collection and assimilation of data on adult and juvenile loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea ... -
BIAS Standards for noise measurements. Background information, Guidelines and Quality Assurance. Amended version. 2015.
(BIAS - Baltic Sea Information on the Acoustic Soundscape, 2015)These standards were developed in the LIFE+ project BIAS with the intention to be used for long-term measurements of continuous underwater noise. The aim of the standards is to specify the data acquisition process for ... -
ANNEX 5 - Method for calculating Days at Sea and Fishing Days.
(Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2016)This document describes the method used to calculate the effort measures Days at Sea and Fishing Days. The intention is that the method can be implemented on different platforms. An R script has been produced that implements ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator PH2 “Changes in Phytoplankton Biomass and Zooplankton Abundance”. Adopted by BDC(2) 2022, OSPAR Agreement 2019-06. Updated 2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)Plankton biomass and/or abundance in the ocean are hydro-climatic variables and as such have been demonstrated to reflect environmental changes, as illustrated by already numerous phytoplankton and zooplankton published ...