Proceedings 2012/022
Proceedings of the National Peer Review Meeting on Identifying indicators for monitoring Arctic marine biodiversity in Canada; February 6-8, 2012
Chairpersons: J. Paulic and S. Walker
Rapporteur: M.-C. Fortin
Summary
Arctic marine biodiversity is under growing pressure from climate change resource development and other stressors. Through the Arctic Council working group on the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), seven Arctic coastal nations (Canada, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Russia and USA) and the Inuit Circumpolar Council have agreed to coordinate efforts to detect and understand long-term changes in Arctic marine ecosystems and key biodiversity elements. The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP)-Marine Plan, published in 2011, calls for integrating existing long-term traditional scientific and community-based biotic data and supporting abiotic data sets across trophic levels and in select Arctic marine regions.
A National peer review process was held February 6-8, 2012 at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba to identify indicators for monitoring Arctic marine biodiversity in Canada. The intent of this science peer review process was to develop and recommend a suite of indicators that can be used to monitor changes in Arctic biodiversity for consideration by the Arctic Council Working Group on the CAFF. This process will serve as one of the initial steps towards the goal of improving our understanding of variability and change for the assessment of Arctic marine systems. Publications for this process include a science advisory report, two research documents and these proceedings.
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