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Marine biogenic habitats:assessing benthic cover and species-
habitat associations
Tse-Lynn Loh, Lily Burke, Stephanie Archer,Anya Dunham
PICES S4 (October 30, 2018)
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Outline
1. Habitat-forming species and community indicators
2. Monitoring protocol flowchart
4. Case study: glass sponge reefs in British Columbia, Canada
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Habitat-forming species indicators
Foundation species cover, biomass, and/or density
Other habitat-forming species cover and community structure
“Status” indicators (e.g. physical damage, disease, contaminants)
Seascape ecology metrics (e.g. patch size and shape)
Dominant ecological function (e.g. filtration capacity)
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Community indicators
Most abundant and/or widely distributed taxa
Species-habitat associations
Types of functional associations:
• Shelter (from physical forces and/or predators)
• Breeding ground
• Nursery
• Indirect food source (habitat-associated prey)
• Direct food source
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Assessment and monitoring protocol Objectives and research questions
Preliminary data/pilot study
Ecological scale of pattern and/or process of interest
Indicator selection
Methods considerations (habitat- and resource-driven); new + emerging methods
Method selection
Sampling design considerations
Sampling design selection
Full protocol review Loh et al, in review
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Outline
1. Habitat-forming species indicators
2. Community indicators
3. Monitoring protocol flowchart
4. Case study: glass sponge reefs in British Columbia, Canada
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Case study: glass sponge reefs
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Objective
“To establish a baseline for the status of structural habitat, biodiversity, and ecosystem function for 9 glass sponge reefs in the Salish Sea and recommend a monitoring approach capable of detecting trends over time”
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Preliminary data
1. Geologic structure delineated using remote acoustics
2. Reef-building sponges are fragile and slow growing
3. Important stressor: suspended sediment4. Natural patchiness5. No quantitative methods available
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Ecological scale of interest
1. Distribution at basin scale is unlikely to change within management time scales =>Reef level
2. Fine-scale patterns and processes within reefs
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Indicator selection: habitatSponge density and biomass.
Reef-building sponge % cover(still images):
Relative proportion of livereef habitat (video):
Oscula (=filtration unit) density (still images):
Dunham et al, in press
% images with visibly brokensponges:
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Indicator selection: community
• Species diversity (Shannon-Wiener index)• Indicator species (Dufrêne and Legendre 1997) densities:
rockfish, spot prawn, squat lobster
Archer et al, in prep
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Methods considerations
• Most reefs are below safe SCUBA limits• DFO ROV, 1 survey day per reef
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New and emerging methods: passive acoustics
Archer et al 2017
Frequency of soniferous fish calls
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Sampling design
Combination of:1. Fixed transects + index sites to assess trends in sponge
abundance2. Stratified random transects to increase likelihood of
capturing stressor impacts
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Reef status summaries
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Uncertainties and future research needs
• Detectability: habitat complexity leads to under-estimation of faunal density
• Limited understanding of natural variability• Lack of knowledge on glass sponge recruitment
14 animals
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DFOScience
Sarah Davies, James Pegg, Wolf Carolsfeld, Erik Archer, and others
OceansJazz Amyot, Brett Marchant, and others
Sustainable Fisheries FrameworkAleria Ladwig, Faith Yu, and others
Centre for Science Advice, Pacific
NRCanKim ConwayRob Kung
CPAWS BC
Marine Life Sanctuaries Society& Underwater Council of BCGlen Dennison, Sheila Creighton, Lora McAuley, Lena Clayton, Adam Taylor, and others
University of AlbertaDr. Sally Leys and her team: Nathan Grant, Dr. Amanda Kahn, Lauren Law, and others
University of VictoriaDr. Francis Juanes and his team
Working together
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