Here, you will find a large range of useful methodological tools for monitoring MPAs. Among others, this directory gathers:
Monitoring protocols explaining the conditions and process of given monitoring programmes, scientific papers, monitoring reports, monitoring handbooks, general methodologies, compared analyses about monitoring methods, monitoring protocols in the form of video tutorials…
The tools are organised in 6 categories:
Habitat & species
Habitat mapping
Activities & impacts
Management effectiveness
Water quality & pollution
Climate changes
Habitats and species
- Suitable methodologies to collect and analyze indicators, and suitable experimental designs to test different situations on MPAs
- Underwater Visual Fish Census Surveys – Proper use and implementation
- Snorkel surveys of the marine environment
- Shearwater monitoring protocol for the Mediterranean Small Islands
- Sciences participatives en Méditerranée – Protocoles nautiques – Cybelle Méditerranée – 2014 ?
- Reef Watch Line Intercept Transect Survey Manual
- Reef Watch Benthic Quadrat Survey Manual
- Reef Fish Watch 2000 Protocol for reef fish (Underwater Visual Census)
- Protocole de suivi de la reproduction du Balbuzard pêcheur
- Protocol to study and monitor Pinna Nobilis populations within MPAs
Habitat mapping
- Développement et test in situ d’une nouvelle technique de vérité terrain- Le transect plongeur audio- pour la cartographie des biocenoses marines
- Methods for ecological monitoring of coral reefs
- SURFSTAT – Réseau d’analyse surfacique des habitats marins de la Méditerranée
- Pacific Islands Network Benthic Marine Community Monitoring Protocol
- Draft Guidelines for the Standardization of Mapping and monitoring methods of marine Magnoliophyta in the Mediterranean
- Cahier Technique du gestionnaire. Analyse comparée des méthodes de surveillance des herbiers de posidonies
- Guide de cartographie des habitats marins
- Marine monitoring handbook
- Videos: Snorkel surveys – Fish visual census, posidonia limits, vitality and mapping of bioconstructors
Activities and impacts
- SOCMON. Socioeconomic monitoring guidelines for coastal managers in the Caribbean
- Visitor use observation and monitoring in Mediterranean MPAs
- Methodological Guidebook for Socio-Economic Field Survey of MPA users
- Marine turtles and fishing in the Mediterranean. Protocol for data collection and assessing interaction
- Management and follow up of the diving activity
- Socioeconomic manual for coral reef management
- SEM-Pasifika. Socioeconomic monitoring guidelines for coastal managers in Pacific Islands countries
- A social indicators monitoring system for tourists and recreational use of the great barrier reef
Management effectiveness
- Guida alla valutazione rapida della gestione nelle AMP mediterranee
- Guide for quick evaluation of management in Mediterranean MPAs
- Como evaluar una AMP
- How is your MPA doing (Arabe)
- How is your MPA doing? (Italian version)
- How is your MPA doing?
Water quality and pollution
- Surveillance des rejets urbains et des systèmes d’assainissement en Méditerranée
- Monitoring guidance for underwater noise in European seas 1, 2 and 3
- Guidance on Monitoring of marine litter in European Seas
- Design and implementation of some harmful algal monitoring systems
Climate changes
- Protocoles pour le suivi des impacts des changements globaux sur les espaces insulaires méditeranéens
- Monitoring protocols of macrodescriptors of change