Attaining an operational Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) synthesis report.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Oceanographic Partnership Program (U.S.)

United States. Marine Mammal Commission, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine biodiversity--United States--Congresses.

Marine biodiversity.

Marine biodiversity conservation--United States--Congresses.

Marine biodiversity conservation.

Coral reef conservation--United States--Congresses.

Coral reef conservation.

Marine resources conservation--United States--Congresses.

Marine resources conservation.

United States.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (33 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Marine Mammal Commission, 2010.

Summary:

"Developing a marine Biodiversity Observing Network (BON) to understand human impacts on marine systems and predict their consequences should be a national priority. Doing so requires overcoming both the common misperception that the ocean is vast enough to absorb all impacts, and major logistical challenges to access and observe marine biodiversity. Quantifying biodiversity status and trends in a standard, proactive manner will safeguard biodiversity and be less expensive than a reactive response to loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem resources. With the goal of designing a BON to fill knowledge gaps and provide a sound basis for informing scientific, government, industry, and public decisions, the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships Ad Hoc Group on Biodiversity convened a three-day workshop in May 2010 to develop a plan for implementing a sustainable marine BON. A Steering Committee of nine academic scientists (seven of whom attended) developed the agenda, which included plenary and break-out sessions. Participants included 35 invited scientists spanning a breadth of expertise and 13 representatives of seven federal agency sponsors"--Executive summary.

Notes:

"We would like to thank the sponsors of the "Attaining Operational Marine Biodiversity Observations" workshop (NOAA, MMC, BOEMRE, NASA, NSF, ONR, and SI), the steering committee, and the participants of the workshop who all contributed to forming these recommendations for a national marine biodiversity observing network"--Page 33.

"Steering Committee: Linda Amaral-Zettler, J. Emmett Duffy, Daphne Fautin, Gustav Paulay, Tatiana Rynearson, Heidi Sosik, and John Stachowicz."

Includes bibliographical references (page 15).

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 21, 2011).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (Archive-it, viewed September 24, 2019).

OCLC:

757977626