Improving benthic monitoring by combining trawl and grab surveys

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1183-1190

  Jørgensen, Lis Lindal ^a   Renaud, Paul E ^b   Cochrane, Sabine K J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Barents Sea; Beam trawl; Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Epifauna; Infauna; Monitoring; North Sea; Petroleum industry; Sampling equipment; Trawling impacts; Van Veen grab

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; BARENTS SEA; BEAM TRAWL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EPIFAUNA; INFAUNA; NORTH SEA; TRAWLING IMPACTS; VAN VEEN GRAB;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

FISHERIES;

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIFAUNA; TRAWLING;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERIES; INVERTEBRATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 79958730584     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.03.035     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Anisimova, N.A., Jørgensen, L.L., Lubin, P., Manushin, I., 2010. Mapping and monitoring of benthos in the Barents Sea and Svalbard waters: Results of the join Russian Norwegian Benthic program 2006-2008. IMR/PINRO Joint Report Series 2009 (1), 114 pp. ISSN 1502-8828.
2. Auster P.J., Langton R.W. The effects of fishing on fish habitat. Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation 1999, vol. 22:150-187. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
3. Auster P.J., Malatesta R.J., Langton R.W., Watling L., Valentine P.C., Donaldson C.L.S., Langton E.W., Shepard A.N., Babb I.G. The impacts of mobile fishing gear on seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Maine (northwest Atlantic): implications for conservation of fish populations. Reviews in Fisheries Science 1996, 4:185-202.
4. Barnes R.D. Invertebrate Zoology 1987, Saunders College International Edition. fifth ed.
5. Bolam S.G., Fernandes T.F., Huxham M. Diversity, biomass, and ecosystem processes in the marine benthos. Ecological Monographs 2002, 72:599-615.
6. Borja A., Muxilka I., Franco J. The application of a marine biotic index to different impact sources affecting soft-bottom benthic communities along European coasts. Marine Pollution Bulletin 2003, 46:835-845.
7. Bremner J., Rogers S.I., Frid C.L.J. Assessing functional diversity in marine benthic ecosystems: a comparison of approaches. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2003, 254:11-25.
8. Bremner J., Rogers S.I., Frid C.L.J. Matching biological traits to environmental conditions in marine benthic ecosystems. Journal of Marine Systems 2006, 60:302-316.
9. Callaway R., Alsvag J., de Boois I., Cotter J., Ford A., Hinz H., Jennings S., Kröncke I., Lancaster J., Piet G., Prince P., Ehrich S. Diversity and community structure of epibenthic invertebrates and fish in the North Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 2002, 59:1199-1214.
10. Callaway R., Engelhard G.H., Dann J., Cotter J., Rumohr H. North Sea epibenthos and trawling. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2007, 346:27-43.
11. Carroll M.L., Denisenko S.G., Renaud P.E., Ambrose W.G. Benthic infauna of the seasonally ice-covered western Barents Sea: patterns and relationships to environmental forcing. Deep Sea Research II 2008, 55:2340-2351.
12. Cochrane S.K.J., Denisienko S.G., Renaud P.E., Emblow C.S., Ambrose W.G., Ellingsen I.H., Skar{eth}hamar J. Benthic fauna and productivity regimes in the Barents Sea - ecological implications in a changing Arctic. Journal of Sea Research 2009, 61:222-233.
13. Cochrane, S.K.J., Pearson, T.H., Greenacre, M., Costelloe, J., Dahle, S., Gulliksen, B., (submitted for publication). Benthic fauna and functional traits along a Polar Front transect in the Barents Sea -advancing tools for ecosystem-scale assessments. Journal of Marine Systems.
14. Colijn F., Cadée G.C. Is phytoplankton growth in the Wadden Sea light or nitrogen limited?. Journal of Sea Research 2003, 49:83-93.
15. Collie J.S., Escanero G.A., Valentine P.C. Photographic evaluation of the impacts of bottom fishing on benthic epifauna. ICES Journal of Marine Science 2000, 57:987-1001.
16. De Juan S., Thrush S.F., Demestre M. Functional changes as indicators of trawling disturbance on a benthic community located in a fishing ground (NW Mediterranean Sea). Marine Ecology Progress Series 2007, 334:117-129.
17. Management of the marine environment of the Barents Sea and the marine areas outside Lofoten. Stortingsmelding 2006, 8:139. Det Kongelige Miljøverndepartement, (2005/2006, in Norwegian).
18. Duineveld G.C.A., Bergman M.J.N., Lavaleye M.S.S. Effects of an area closed to fisheries on the composition of the benthic fauna in the southern North Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 2007, 64:899-908.
19. Enequist P. Studies on the soft-bottom amphipods of the Skagerak. Zoologiske Bidrag från Uppsala 1949, 28:297-492.
20. Fauchald K., Jumars P.A. The diet of worms: a study in polychaete feeding guilds. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review 1979, 17:193-284.
21. FKD (Fishery and Coast Department), 2004. Forskrift om tildeling, endring og bortfall av konsesjoner og lokaliteter for oppdrett av laks, ørret og regnbueørret (laksetildelingsforskriften). Pub. 2004-1567, 12 pp (in Norwegian).
22. Fosså J.H., Mortensen P.B., Furevik D.M. The deep water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters: distribution and fishery impacts. Hydrobiologia 2002, 471:1-12.
23. Frauenheim K., Neumann V., Thiel H., Turkay M. The distribution of the larger epifauna during summer and winter in the North Sea and its suitability for environmental monitoring. Senckenbergiana Maritima 1989, 20(3/4):101e118.
24. Gray J.S., Bakke T., Beck H.J., Nilssen I. Managing the environmental effect of the Norwegian oil and gas industry: from conflict to consensus. Marine Pollution Bulletin 1999, 38:525-530.
25. Greenacre M. Correspondence analysis of raw data. Ecology 2010, 91(4):958-963.
26. Heip, C., Craeymeersch, J.A., 1995. Benthic community structures in the North Sea. In: Franke, H.D., Luening, K. (Eds.), The Challenge to Marine Biology in a Changing World; Helgoland (FRG). Hamburg (FRG): Biologische Anstalt Helgoland. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 49 (1-4), 313-328.
27. Jennings S., Lancaster J., Woolmer A., Cotter J. Distribution, diversity and abundance of epibenthic fauna in the North Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1999, 79:385-399.
28. Kaiser M.J., Spencer B.E. Behavioral responses of scavengers to beam trawl disturbance. Aquatic Predators and their Prey 1996, 117-123. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford. S.P.R. Greenstreet, M.L. Tasker (Eds.).
29. Kaiser M.J., Ramsay K., Richardson C.A., Spence F.E., Brand A.R. Chronic fishing disturbance has changed shelf sea benthic communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 2000, 69:494-503.
30. Kendall M.A., Warwick R.M., Somerfield P.J. Species size distributions in Arctic benthic communities. Polar Biology 1997, 17:389-392.
31. Loeng H. Features of the physical oceanographic conditions of the Barents Sea. Polar Research 1991, 10:5-18.
32. Myhrvold A., Hovland M., Nøland S.A. Baseline and environmental monitoring in deep water - a new approach. Society of Petroleum Engineers SPE 2004, 86776:1-8.
33. Norling K., Rosenberg R., Hulth S., Grémare A., Bonsdorff E. Importance of functional biodiversity and species-specific traits of benthic fauna for ecosystem functions in marine sediment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2007, 332:11-23.
34. Olsgard F., Brattegard T., Holthe T. Polychaetes as surrogates for marine biodiversity: lower taxonomic resolution and indicator groups. Biodiversity and Conservation 2003, 12:1033-1049.
35. OSPAR, 2003. Strategies of the OSPAR Commission for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic. Ref 2003-21, OSPAR, Bremen, p. 22.
36. Otto L., Zimmerman J.T.F., Furnes G.K., Mork M., Saetre R., Becker G. Review of the physical oceanography of the North Sea. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 1990, 26:161e238.
37. Pearson T.H., Rosenberg R. Macrobenthic succession in relation to organic enrichment and pollution of the marine environment. Oceanography and Marine Biology. An Annual Review 1978, 16:229-311.
38. Pechenik J.A. Biology of the Invertebrates 2000, McGraw Hill, Boston, p. 578. fourth ed.
39. Peterson C.H., Rice S.D., Short J.W., Elser D., Bodkin J.L., Ballachey B.E., Irons D.B. Long-term ecosystem response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Science 2003, 302:2082-2086.
40. Ramsay K., Kaiser M.J., Hughes R.N. Responses of benthic scavengers to fishing disturbance by towed gears in different habitats. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 1998, 224:73-89.
41. Reiss H., Kröncke I., Ehrich S. Estimating catch efficiency of a 2m beam trawl for sampling epifauna by removal experiments. ICES Journal of Marine Science 2006, 63:1453-1464.
42. Renaud, P.E., Jensen, T., Wassbotten, I., Mannvik, H.P., Botnen, H., 2008. Offshore sediment monitoring on the Norwegian shelf: a reginal approach 1996-2006. Akvaplan-niva Report 3487-003, Akvaplan-niva, Tromsø, Norway.
43. SFT (State Pollution Control Authority), 2010. Retningslinjer for miljøovervåking av petroleumsvirksomheten på norsk kontinentalsokkel. Statens Forurensningstilsyn, p. 45 (in Norwegian).
44. United States Department of Commerce, 2007. Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act. Public Laws 94-265/109-479 US Dept Commerce, Washington, DC.
45. Waldbusser G.G., Marinelli R.L. Macrofaunal modification of porewater advection: role of species function, species interaction, and kinetics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2006, 311:217-231.
46. Warwick R.M. The level of taxonomic discrimination required to detect pollution effects on marine benthic communities. Marine Pollution Bulletin 1988, 19:259-268.
47. Witbaard R., Klein R. Long-term trends on the effects of the southern North Sea beamtrawl fishery on the bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica L. (Mollusca, Bivalvia). ICES Journal of Marine Science 1994, 51:99-105.
48. Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Kdra M. Surrogacy in natural patterns of benthic distribution and diversity: selected taxa versus lower taxonomic resolution. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2007, 351:53-63.
49. Zenkevitch, L.A., 1963 Biology of the Seas of the USSR. London, Allen and Unwin, 931 pp.
50. Zühlke R., Alvsvåg J., de Boois I., Cotter J., Ehrich S., Ford A., Hinz H., Jarre-Teichmann A., Jennings S., Kröncke I., Lancaster J., Piet G., Prince P. Epibenthic diversity in the North Sea. Marine Biodiversity 2001, 31:269-281.