Large-scale coastal monitoring programs that focus on long-term inter-annual and seasonal community vari ability are rare mostly because they are costly, logistically complex and require coordination by groups of dedicated ...

Temperate rocky reefs in Atlantic Patagonia are productive areas that support a high diversity of invertebrates, algae, and fishes. Complex surface structures on rocky reefs offer a range of microhabitats, which in turn, ...

Acquiring marine biodiversity data is difficult, costly, and time consuming, making it challenging to understand the distribution and abundance of lifei n the ocean. Historically, approaches to biodiversity sampling over ...

Global concern around substantial losses of biodiversity has led to the development of a number of monitoring programs. Networks were established to obtain appropriate data on the spatial and temporal variation of marine ...

Standardized methods for effectively and rapidly monitoring changes in the biodiversity of marine ecosystems are critical to assess status and trends in ways that are comparable between locations and over time. In intertidal ...