Methodological elements for optimising the spatial monitoring design to support regional benthic ecosystem assessments

Gert Van Hoey; Julia Wischnewski; Johan Craeymeersch; Jennifer Dannheim; Lisette Enserink; Laurent Guerin; Francisco Marco-Rius; Joey O’connor; Henning Reiss; Anne F. Sell; Marie Vanden Berghe; Michael L. Zettler; Steven Degraer; Silvana N.R. Birchenough

doi:10.1007/s10661-019-7550-9

Methodological elements for optimising the spatial monitoring design to support regional benthic ecosystem assessments

Gert Van Hoey^*
, Julia Wischnewski
, Johan Craeymeersch
, Jennifer Dannheim
, Lisette Enserink
, Laurent Guerin
, Francisco Marco-Rius
, Joey O’connor
, Henning Reiss
, Anne F. Sell
, Marie Vanden Berghe
, Michael L. Zettler
, Steven Degraer
, Silvana N.R. Birchenough

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Benthic habitat condition assessments are a requirement under various environmental directives. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), for example, challenges member states in a European sea region to perform comparable assessments of good environmental status and improve coherence
of their monitoring programmes by 2020. Currently, North Sea countries operate independent monitoring programmes using nationally defined assessment
areas. Lack of an agreed OSPAR or EU scale monitoring method and programme has been identified as a priority science need. This paper proposes a method
for the development of a coherent and efficient spatial sampling design for benthic habitats on regional level and gives advice on optimal monitoring effort
to get more accurate assessments. We use ecologically relevant assessment areas (strata) across national borders and test spatial sample allocation methods.

Original language	English
Article number	423
Number of pages	13
Journal	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Volume	191
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7550-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2019

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Keywords

Benthos
Coordination
Monitoring
Sample allocation
Sampling design
Stratification

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Van Hoey, G., Wischnewski, J., Craeymeersch, J., Dannheim, J., Enserink, L., Guerin, L., Marco-Rius, F., O’connor, J., Reiss, H., Sell, A. F., Vanden Berghe, M., Zettler, M. L., Degraer, S., & Birchenough, S. N. R. (2019). Methodological elements for optimising the spatial monitoring design to support regional benthic ecosystem assessments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191(7), Article 423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7550-9

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Methodological elements for optimising the spatial monitoring design to support regional benthic ecosystem assessments

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