A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) related to benthic habitats and high trophic levels such as fish communities must be measured at fine scale but monitored and assessed at spatial scales that are relevant for policy and management actions. Local scales are important for assessing anthropogenic...
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| author | Dominique Pelletier Dominique Pelletier David Roos Marc Bouchoucha Thomas Schohn William Roman Charles Gonson Thomas Bockel Thomas Bockel Liliane Carpentier Bastien Preuss Abigail Powell Jessica Garcia Jessica Garcia Matthias Gaboriau Florent Cadé Coline Royaux Yvan Le Bras Yves Reecht Yves Reecht |
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| description | Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) related to benthic habitats and high trophic levels such as fish communities must be measured at fine scale but monitored and assessed at spatial scales that are relevant for policy and management actions. Local scales are important for assessing anthropogenic impacts, and conservation-related and fisheries management actions, while reporting on the conservation status of biodiversity to formulate national and international policies requires much broader scales. Measurements must account for the fact that coastal habitats and fish communities are heterogeneously distributed locally and at larger scales. Assessments based on in situ monitoring generally suffer from poor spatial replication and limited geographical coverage, which is challenging for area-wide assessments. Requirements for appropriate monitoring comprise cost-efficient and standardized observation protocols and data formats, spatially scalable and versatile data workflows, data that comply with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles, while minimizing the environmental impact of measurements. This paper describes a standardized workflow based on remote underwater video that aims to assess fishes (at species and community levels) and habitat-related EBVs in coastal areas. This panoramic unbaited video technique was developed in 2007 to survey both fishes and benthic habitats in a cost-efficient manner, and with minimal effect on biodiversity. It can be deployed in areas where low underwater visibility is not a permanent or major limitation. The technique was consolidated and standardized and has been successfully used in varied settings over the last 12 years. We operationalized the EBV workflow by documenting the field protocol, survey design, image post-processing, EBV production and data curation. Applications of the workflow are illustrated here based on some 4,500 observations (fishes and benthic habitats) in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and Mediterranean Sea. The STAVIRO’s proven track-record of utility and cost-effectiveness indicates that it should be considered by other researchers for future applications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d3e1ab4e8c5a4527afece5d18b97d54e2022-12-21T19:57:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452021-07-01810.3389/fmars.2021.689280689280A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal AreasDominique Pelletier0Dominique Pelletier1David Roos2Marc Bouchoucha3Thomas Schohn4William Roman5Charles Gonson6Thomas Bockel7Thomas Bockel8Liliane Carpentier9Bastien Preuss10Abigail Powell11Jessica Garcia12Jessica Garcia13Matthias Gaboriau14Florent Cadé15Coline Royaux16Yvan Le Bras17Yves Reecht18Yves Reecht19Unité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Ecologie et Modèles pour l’Halieutique, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nantes, FranceDélégation Océan Indien, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Le Port, FranceLaboratoire Environnement Ressources, Département Océanographie et Dynamique des Ecosystèmes, La Seyne-sur-Mer, FranceUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaAndromède Océanologie, Carnon Plage, FranceUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaBureau d’études SQUALE, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUnité Lagons, Ecosystèmes et Aquaculture Durable en Nouvelle Calédonie, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUMS CNRS 3514 STELLA MARE, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, Biguglia, France18 Carrer Sant Jordi, Banyuls-sur-Mer, FranceOCEANS.mov, Nouméa, New Caledonia0Pôle National de Données de Biodiversité, UMS 2006 PatriNat, Station Marine de Concarneau, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Concarneau, France0Pôle National de Données de Biodiversité, UMS 2006 PatriNat, Station Marine de Concarneau, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Concarneau, France1Unité Sciences et Technologies Halieutiques, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Plouzané, France2Institute of Marine Research/Havforskningsinstituttet, Bergen, NorwayEssential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) related to benthic habitats and high trophic levels such as fish communities must be measured at fine scale but monitored and assessed at spatial scales that are relevant for policy and management actions. Local scales are important for assessing anthropogenic impacts, and conservation-related and fisheries management actions, while reporting on the conservation status of biodiversity to formulate national and international policies requires much broader scales. Measurements must account for the fact that coastal habitats and fish communities are heterogeneously distributed locally and at larger scales. Assessments based on in situ monitoring generally suffer from poor spatial replication and limited geographical coverage, which is challenging for area-wide assessments. Requirements for appropriate monitoring comprise cost-efficient and standardized observation protocols and data formats, spatially scalable and versatile data workflows, data that comply with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles, while minimizing the environmental impact of measurements. This paper describes a standardized workflow based on remote underwater video that aims to assess fishes (at species and community levels) and habitat-related EBVs in coastal areas. This panoramic unbaited video technique was developed in 2007 to survey both fishes and benthic habitats in a cost-efficient manner, and with minimal effect on biodiversity. It can be deployed in areas where low underwater visibility is not a permanent or major limitation. The technique was consolidated and standardized and has been successfully used in varied settings over the last 12 years. We operationalized the EBV workflow by documenting the field protocol, survey design, image post-processing, EBV production and data curation. Applications of the workflow are illustrated here based on some 4,500 observations (fishes and benthic habitats) in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and Mediterranean Sea. The STAVIRO’s proven track-record of utility and cost-effectiveness indicates that it should be considered by other researchers for future applications.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.689280/fullunderwater videoessential biodiversity variablesmonitoringassessmentstandardized workflowFAIR principles |
| spellingShingle | Dominique Pelletier Dominique Pelletier David Roos Marc Bouchoucha Thomas Schohn William Roman Charles Gonson Thomas Bockel Thomas Bockel Liliane Carpentier Bastien Preuss Abigail Powell Jessica Garcia Jessica Garcia Matthias Gaboriau Florent Cadé Coline Royaux Yvan Le Bras Yves Reecht Yves Reecht A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas Frontiers in Marine Science underwater video essential biodiversity variables monitoring assessment standardized workflow FAIR principles |
| title | A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas |
| title_full | A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas |
| title_fullStr | A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas |
| title_short | A Standardized Workflow Based on the STAVIRO Unbaited Underwater Video System for Monitoring Fish and Habitat Essential Biodiversity Variables in Coastal Areas |
| title_sort | standardized workflow based on the staviro unbaited underwater video system for monitoring fish and habitat essential biodiversity variables in coastal areas |
| topic | underwater video essential biodiversity variables monitoring assessment standardized workflow FAIR principles |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.689280/full |
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