New High-Tech Flexible Networks for the Monitoring of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Jacopo Aguzzi
(1)
,
Damianos Chatzievangelou
(2)
,
Simone Marini
(3)
,
Emanuela Fanelli
(4)
,
Roberto Danovaro
(5)
,
Sascha Flögel
,
Nadine Lebris
(6)
,
Francis Juanes
(7)
,
Fabio de Leo
,
Joaquin del Rio
(8)
,
Laurenz Thomsen
,
Corrado Costa
(9)
,
Giorgio Riccobene
(10)
,
Cristian Tamburini
,
Dominique Lefevre
(11)
,
Carl Gojak
(12)
,
Pierre-Marie Poulain
(13)
,
Paolo Favali
(14)
,
Annalisa Griffa
(15)
,
Autun Purser
(16)
,
Danelle Cline
,
Duane Edgington
,
Joan Navarro
,
Sergio Stefanni
,
Steve D’hondt
,
Imants Priede
,
Rodney Rountree
,
Joan Company
1
ICM -
Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar [Barcelona]
2 Jacobs University = Constructor University [Bremen]
3 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
4 UNIVPM - Polytechnic University of Marche [Ancona, Italy] / Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona, Italia]
5 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
6 SU - Sorbonne Université
7 UVIC - University of Victoria [Canada]
8 Pharmacology
9 Agricultural Engineering Research Unit
10 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania
11 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
12 DTI - Division technique INSU/SDU
13 OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
14 EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
15 ISMAR - Istituto di Science Marine
16 AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine
2 Jacobs University = Constructor University [Bremen]
3 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
4 UNIVPM - Polytechnic University of Marche [Ancona, Italy] / Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona, Italia]
5 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
6 SU - Sorbonne Université
7 UVIC - University of Victoria [Canada]
8 Pharmacology
9 Agricultural Engineering Research Unit
10 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania
11 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
12 DTI - Division technique INSU/SDU
13 OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
14 EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
15 ISMAR - Istituto di Science Marine
16 AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine
Jacopo Aguzzi
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Sascha Flögel
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Fabio de Leo
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Laurenz Thomsen
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Cristian Tamburini
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Danelle Cline
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Duane Edgington
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Joan Navarro
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Sergio Stefanni
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Steve D’hondt
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Imants Priede
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Rodney Rountree
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Joan Company
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Résumé
Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea (e.g., fisheries, oil−gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of novel monitoring technologies, beyond the traditional vessel-assisted, time-consuming, high-cost sampling surveys. The implementation of permanent networks of seabed and water-column-cabled (fixed) and docked mobile platforms is presently enforced, to cooperatively measure biological features and environmental (physicochemical) parameters. Video and acoustic (i.e., optoacoustic) imaging are becoming central approaches for studying
benthic fauna (e.g., quantifying species presence, behavior, and trophic interactions) in a remote, continuous, and prolonged fashion. Imaging is also being complemented by in situ environmental- DNA sequencing technologies, allowing the traceability of a wide range of organisms (including prokaryotes) beyond the reach of optoacoustic tools. Here, we describe the different fixed and mobile platforms of those benthic and pelagic monitoring networks, proposing at the same time an innovative roadmap for the automated computing of hierarchical ecological information on deep-sea ecosystems (i.e., from single species’ abundance and life traits to community composition, and overall biodiversity).