Marine Habitats
Conventions and Legislation
Data Management
Monitoring and surveillance
Monitoring Tools
Marine Monitoring Handbook (MMH)
Taxonomic Tools
Common Standards Monitoring
Marine Nature Conservation Review
Marine Nature Conservation Review
Groups
Quality Assurance and Standards
Projects
Habitat Mapping
EUNIS Classification
Marine Habitat Classification

Taxonomic Tools

Many marine monitoring techniques require taxonomic identification (I.D.) of species and there are a number of photographic tools and databases available online which provide useful information relevant for the identification of UK benthic species and habitat features of conservation interest.

There is also a need to establish or highlight Quality Control standards for epibiota. Quality Control standards already exist for infauna through schemes such as the Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme (NMBAQC) and this scheme is now widening its remit to encompass epibiota.

This section is set up to be dynamic and new online resources can be added to get maximum value, if you know of any other UK taxonomic tools which should be added to these pages please contact us on .