Large-scale assessment of benthic communities across multiple marine protected areas using an autonomous underwater vehicle

• Main Authors: Ferrari, Renata, Marzinelli, Ezequiel Miguel, Ayroza, Camila Rezende, Jordan, Alan, Figueira, Will F., Byrne, Maria, Malcolm, Hamish A., Williams, Stefan B., Steinberg, Peter David
• Other Authors: Kalia, Vipin Chandra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Benthic Communities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89349; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44874
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are designed to reduce threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning from anthropogenic activities. Assessment of MPAs effectiveness requires synchronous sampling of protected and non-protected areas at multiple spatial and temporal scales. We used an autonomous und...