Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea (e.g. fisheries, oil-gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of novel monitoring technologies, beyond the traditional vessel-assisted, time-consuming, high-cost sampling surveys. The implementation of permanent networks of seabed and water-column cabled (fixed) and docked mobile platforms is presently enforced, to cooperatively measure biological features and environmental (physico-chemical) parameters. Video and acoustic (i.e. optoacoustic) imaging are becoming central approaches for studying benthic fauna (e.g. quantifying species presence, behaviour, and trophic interactions) in a remote, continuous, and prolonged fashion. Imaging is also being complemented by in situ environmental-DNA sequencing technologies, allowing the traceability of a wide range of organisms (including prokaryotes) beyond the reach of optoacoustic tools. Here, we describe the different fixed and mobile platforms of those benthic and pelagic monitoring networks, proposing at the same time an innovative roadmap for the automated computing of hierarchical ecological information of deep-sea ecosystems (i.e. from single species' abundance and life traits, to community composition, and overall biodiversity).

New high-tech flexible networks for the monitoring of deep-sea ecosystems / Aguzzi, Jacopo; Chatzievangelou, Damianos; Marini, Simone; Fanelli, Emanuela; Danovaro, Roberto; Floegel, Sascha; Le Bris, Nadine; Juanes, Francis; de Leo, Fabio; Del Rio, Joaquin; Thomsen, Laurenz; Costa, Corrado; Riccobene, Giorgio; Tamburini, Cristian; Lefevre, Dominique; Gojak, Carl; Poulain, Pierre-Marie; Favali, Paolo; Griffa, Annalisa; Purser, Autun; Cline, Danelle; Edgington, Duane; Navarro, Joan; Srefanni, Sergio; Company, Joan Batista; D'Hondt, Steve; Priede, Imats; Rountree, Rodeny. - In: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0013-936X. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019). [10.1021/acs.est.9b00409]

New high-tech flexible networks for the monitoring of deep-sea ecosystems

Fanelli, Emanuela;Danovaro, Roberto;
2019-01-01

Abstract

Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea (e.g. fisheries, oil-gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of novel monitoring technologies, beyond the traditional vessel-assisted, time-consuming, high-cost sampling surveys. The implementation of permanent networks of seabed and water-column cabled (fixed) and docked mobile platforms is presently enforced, to cooperatively measure biological features and environmental (physico-chemical) parameters. Video and acoustic (i.e. optoacoustic) imaging are becoming central approaches for studying benthic fauna (e.g. quantifying species presence, behaviour, and trophic interactions) in a remote, continuous, and prolonged fashion. Imaging is also being complemented by in situ environmental-DNA sequencing technologies, allowing the traceability of a wide range of organisms (including prokaryotes) beyond the reach of optoacoustic tools. Here, we describe the different fixed and mobile platforms of those benthic and pelagic monitoring networks, proposing at the same time an innovative roadmap for the automated computing of hierarchical ecological information of deep-sea ecosystems (i.e. from single species' abundance and life traits, to community composition, and overall biodiversity).
2019
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