Marine citizen science is emerging with promising opportunities for science, policy and
public but there is still no comprehensive overview of the current state in Europe. Based on …

Monitoring of marine protected areas (MPAs) is critical for marine ecosystem management,
yet current protocols rely on SCUBA-based visual surveys that are costly and time …

Indicators are effective tools for summarizing and communicating key aspects of ecosystem
state and have a long record of use in marine pollution and fisheries management. The …

This paper is a search for common ground between two natural scientists, two childhood
studies and education scholars and two human–animal studies or critical animal studies …

Sustained global ocean observations are needed to recognise, understand, and manage
changes in marine biodiversity, resources and habitats, and to implement wise conservation …

Kelp forests line a quarter of the world's coastlines and provide diverse ecosystem services.
While kelps are a harvested resource themselves, they are also foundation species that form …

Calls for using marine protected areas (MPAs) to achieve goals for nature and people are
increasing globally. While the conservation and fisheries impacts of MPAs have been …

Monitoring spatiotemporal patterns in marine environments is crucial to ensure a better
understanding of ecosystem functioning and, ultimately, for adequate management and …

Marine ecosystems are facing a dramatic loss of biodiversity worldwide, together with a
widespread collapse of habitats and their functionality. In this context, Marine Citizen …

Broad‐scale biodiversity monitoring relies, at least in part, on the efforts of citizen, or
community, scientists. To ensure robust inferences from citizen science data, it is important …