the societal benefits of biogenic structures - flora kent
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Presentation at the Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology's Away Day 2012, by PhD student Flora Kent.TRANSCRIPT
The societal benefits of biogenic structures
MASTS PhD Studentship – Flora Kent
Understanding how biogenic habitats provide goods and services to society can make a contribution to the selection of MPAs as well as boundary determination, the buy-in of stakeholders, sensitive management and the effectiveness of enforcement.
In the first year of this project, methods have been developed for measuring sediment accumulation on a Modiolus
modiolus reef in Scotland.
By working with local fishermen, data has been collected on whelk catch rates, growth rates and size distributions on a M. modiolus reef in North Wales.
Underwater Visual Censuses (UVCs) have been carried out on and off M. modiolus beds in Scapa Flow to study habitat use by commercially important fish and shellfish.
UVC locations in Scapa Flow, Orkney. Red circles = biogenic reef sites, green circles = control sites
Whelk fishing sites on the North Llyn M. modiolus reef (red circles), north of the reef (blue circles) and south of the reef (green circles). Solid line = reef outline.