| Improving benthic monitoring by combining trawl and grab surveys. | |
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PMID: 21507428 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Environmental monitoring is performed on seafloor communities since these organisms are relatively stationary and integrate the environmental conditions over many years. Standard practices involve sampling by grab. Epifaunal taxa, often missed by grab sampling, are likely to have different ecological functions. We investigate how current environmental assessments represent the benthic community as a whole by comparing taxonomic and functional components sampled by grabs and epibenthic trawls. Faunal communities sampled by trawl (filtrating or predator, epifauna) and grab (infaunal, detrivore) differs widely by sampling distinct functional components, and these may be expected to respond to different human-induced stressors. Neither component appears to be a good surrogate for the community as a whole. We suggest a benthic monitoring by combining both techniques. Sustainable ecosystem functioning is intimately tied to the health of both components of the benthic community, and is recognized as an important goal by signatories of the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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Lis Lindal Jørgensen; Paul E Renaud; Sabine K J Cochrane |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-4-18 |
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Title: Marine pollution bulletin Volume: - ISSN: 1879-3363 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-4-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0260231 Medline TA: Mar Pollut Bull Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Institute of Marine Research, P.O. Box 6404, N-9294 Tromsø, Norway. |
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