Zooplankton monitoring to contribute towards addressing global biodiversity conservation challenges

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2018Author
Chiba, S.
Batten, S.
Martin, C.S.
Ivory, S.
Miloslavich, P.
Weatherdon, L.V.
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Oceanographers have an increasing responsibility to ensure that the outcomes of scientific research are conveyed to the policy-making sphere to achieve conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity. Zooplankton monitoring projects have helped to increase our understanding of the processes by which marine ecosystems respond to climate change and other environmental variations, ranging from regional to global scales, and its scientific value is recognized in the contexts of fisheries, biodiversity and global change studies. Nevertheless, zooplankton data have rarely been used at policy level for conservation and management of marine ecosystems services. One way that this can be pragmatically and effectively achieved is via the development of zooplankton indicators, which could for instance contribute to filling in gaps in the suite of global indicators to track progress against the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2010–2020. This .....
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Journal of Plankton ResearchVolume
40Issue
5Page Range
pp.509-518Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14.2Essential Ocean Variables (EOV)
Zooplankton biomass and diversityBest Practice Type
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10.1093/plankt/fby030Citation
Chiba, S.; Batten, S.; Martin, C. S.; Ivory, S.; Miloslavich, P. & Weatherdon, L. V. (2018) Zooplankton monitoring to contribute towards addressing global biodiversity conservation challenges. Journal of Plankton Research, 40(5), pp.509-518. DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fby030Collections
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