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Assessing the state of pelagic fish communities within an ecosystem approach and the european marine strategy framework directive (2018)

Shephard, S.; Rindorf, A.; Dickey-Collas, M.; Hintzen, N. T.; Farnsworth, K.; Reid, D. G.

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The Stock Book 2019: Annual Review of Fish Stocks in 2019 with Management Advice for 2020 (2019)

Marine Institute

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Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional-scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy (2019)

Scherer, Cordula; McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail; Atkinson, Angus; Aubert, Ana?s; Bedford, ...

Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional-scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy (2019)

Scherer, Cordula; McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail; Atkinson, Angus; Aubert, Ana?s; Bedford, Jacob; Best, Mike; Bresnan, Eileen; Cook, Kathryn; Devlin, Michelle; Gowen, Richard; John, David G.; Machairopoulou, Margarita; McKinney, April; Mellor, Adam; Ostle, Clare; Tett, Paul

Abstract:

Plankton are sensitive indicators of change and, at the base of marine food webs, they underpin important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and fisheries production. In the UK and the Northeast Atlantic region, change in plankton functional groups, or ?lifeforms?, constructed based on biological traits, is the formally accepted policy indicator used to assess Good Environmental Status (GES) for pelagic habitats under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD: 2008/56/EC). To identify changes in UK pelagic habitats, plankton lifeforms, were used from diverse UK data sets collected by different methods, including plankton sampling by nets, water bottles, integrating tube samplers, and the Continuous Plankton Recorder. A Plankton Index approach was used to identify change in plankton lifeforms. This is the first time that the pelagic plankton community has been assessed on a UK-wide scale and forms the foundation of the UK?s 2020 MSFD Assessment for pelagic habitat bi...