A multidisciplinary approach for generating globally consistent data on mesophotic, deep-pelagic, and bathyal biological communities

Woodall, Lucy, Andradi-Brown, Dominic, Brierley, Andrew, Clark, Malcolm, Connelly, Douglas, Hall, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3665-6322, Howell, Kerry, Huvenne, Veerle, Linse, Katrin, Ross, Rebecca, Snelgrove, Paul, Stefanoudis, Paris, Sutton, Tracy, Taylor, Michelle, Thornton, Thomas and Rogers, Alex (2018) A multidisciplinary approach for generating globally consistent data on mesophotic, deep-pelagic, and bathyal biological communities. Oceanography, 31 (3). 76–89. ISSN 1042-8275

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Abstract

Approaches to measuring marine biological parameters remain almost as diverse as the researchers who measure them. However, understanding the patterns of diversity in ocean life over different temporal and geographic scales requires consistent data and information on the potential environmental drivers. As a group of marine scientists from different disciplines, we suggest a formalized, consistent framework of 20 biological, chemical, physical, and socioeconomic parameters that we consider the most important for describing environmental and biological variability. We call our proposed framework the General Ocean Survey and Sampling Iterative Protocol (GOSSIP). We hope that this framework will establish a consistent approach to data collection, enabling further collaboration between marine scientists from different disciplines to advance knowledge of the ocean (deep-sea and mesophotic coral ecosystems).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2018 10:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 03:41
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66727
DOI:	10.5670/oceanog.2018.301

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