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Review
. 2018 Sep;40(5):509-518.
doi: 10.1093/plankt/fby030. Epub 2018 Aug 25.

Zooplankton monitoring to contribute towards addressing global biodiversity conservation challenges

Sanae Chiba  1   2 , Sonia Batten  3 , Corinne S Martin  2 , Sarah Ivory  2 , Patricia Miloslavich  4   5   6 , Lauren V Weatherdon  2
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Review

Zooplankton monitoring to contribute towards addressing global biodiversity conservation challenges

Sanae Chiba et al. J Plankton Res. 2018 Sep.

Abstract

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 article begins by highlighting how under-represented the marine realm is within the current suite of global Aichi Target indicators. We then examine the potential to develop global indicators for relevant Aichi Targets, using existing zooplankton monitoring data, to address global biodiversity conservation challenges.

Keywords: Aichi Biodiversity Targets; EOVs; indicators; monitoring; zooplankton.

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Fig. 1.
Schematic diagram of the hierarchical structure of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and indicators.
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Fig. 2.
Number (bar) and ratio (pie) of the specific indicators developed or proposed for the Goals B, C and D of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets with ranking of their marine relevance. Red dots indicate the number of generic indicators that have no matching specific indicators, either terrestrial or marine (as of January 2017). See the indicator list (CBD/COP13): https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-13/cop-13-dec-28-en.pdf.
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Fig. 3.
Workflow from establishment and implementation of the GOOS-Bio/Eco zooplankton EOVs to development of global biodiversity indicators for the UN-related projects and contribution to International marine conservation policy, with the roles of the respective organizations/groups involved.
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