Modelling the Whole-Ecosystem Impacts of Trawling [PDF]
, 2015 Trawling has been controversial since its introduction in the 17th century. In 1882 the Fishery Board for Scotland was established and assigned powers to ban beam and otter trawling where necessary to protect traditional static gear fisheries.
Heath, Michael +2 more
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas [PDF]
, 2014 Practitioners and policy makers at European Union (EU) and Member States level are increasingly seeking spatially-explicit ecosystem service information to use in decision-making and the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020.
CARDOSO Ana +2 more
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Journal of Maps, 2019 We present the first seabed map of the shallow-water areas of Lampione, the islet of the Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area (Sicily Channel, Italy).
Sara Innangi +3 more
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Classifying seabed sediments using local auto-correlation features [PDF]
, 2013 Understanding the distribution of seafloor sediment using a side-scan sonar is very important to grasp the distribution of seabed resources. This task is traditionally carried out by a skilled human operator.
Ishikawa Seiji +3 more
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Control of the repeatability of high frequency multibeam echosounder backscatter by using natural reference areas [PDF]
, 2018 The increased use of backscatter measurements in time series for environmental monitoring necessitates the comparability of individual results. With the current lack of pre-calibrated multibeam echosounder systems for absolute backscatter measurement, a ...
Augustin, Jean-Marie +6 more
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Classification of Underwater Sediments in Lab Based on LiDAR Full-Waveform Data
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringThe classification of shallow sea sediments based on airborne LiDAR bathymetry represents a significant advancement in marine science and engineering.
Libin Du +5 more
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Marine Evidence-based Sensitivity Assessment (MarESA) – A Guide [PDF]
, 2018 The Marine Evidence-based Sensitivity Assessment (MarESA) methodology was developed by the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) team at the Marine Biological Association of the UK.
d'Avack, EAS +4 more
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Conceptual Ecological Modelling of Shallow Sublittoral Mud Habitats to Inform Indicator Selection [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this study is to produce a series of Conceptual Ecological Models (CEMs) that represent the shallow sublittoral mud habitat in the UK. CEMs are diagrammatic representations of the influences and processes that occur within an ecosystem ...
Alexander, D. +3 more
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Seabed geomorphology: a two-part classification system [PDF]
, 2016 The BGS has developed a two- part classification system (‘Morphology’ and ‘Geomorphology’) to facilitate work on a new ‘S eabed Geomorphology’ mapping initia tive, and this classification system is the focus of this report.
Baeten, N. +20 more
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Conceptual Ecological Modelling of Shallow Sublittoral Coarse Sediment Habitats to Inform Indicator Selection [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this study is to produce a series of Conceptual Ecological Models (CEMs)that represent the Shallow Sublittoral Coarse Sediment Habitat in the UK.
Alexander, D. +3 more
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