Marine Assessments
There are a number of steps in the environmental management
cycle that need to be completed to tell us if we are protecting
marine biodiversity. A crucial step in the cycle is the
assessment and interpretation of data collected during monitoring
programmes.
JNCC has been an active partner in the development of new
approaches and tools for the assessment of habitats and species for
a variety of national and international status reports. They
include the second cycle of Conservation Status Assessment
reports for the Habitats Directive, Charting Progress 2
(CP2) and the OSPAR Quality Status
Report (QSR). Both CP2 and the QSR were published during
2010. Future work will focus on improving and streamlining
assessment methods to meet the challenges of the Marine Strategy Framework
Directive.
Role of monitoring and assessment within an
overall environmental management cycle.