Inventory of Irish Marine Wildlife Publications Irish Wildlife Manuals No. 16 Inventory of Irish Marine Wildlife Publications Caroline Roche, Sarah Clarke & Brendan O’Connor AquaFact International Services Ltd., 12 Kilkerrin Park, Liosbaun, Galway. Citation: Roche C., Clarke S. & O’Connor B. (2005) Inventory of Irish marine wildlife publications. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 16. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland. Cover photo: Snakelocks Anemone (Anemonia viridis) © BioMar Irish Wildlife Manuals Series Editor: F. Marnell © National Parks and Wildlife Service 2005 ISSN 1393 – 6670 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks are due to all those who took the time to assist in the complitation of this inventory. A complete listing of all those who contributed to this inventory can be seen in Appendix I. 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • To facilitate future data mining and strategic research efforts pertaining to marine wildlife conservation, NPWS commissioned a review of existing published and grey literature. This review encompassed all habitats influenced by marine waters in Ireland and the species dependant on those habitats. • A range of governmental and non-governmental organisations, and individual experts and researchers both nationally and internationally contributed to this review which will also serve as an important archive of Ireland’s marine research history. • Acknowledging that a review of this size will inevitably result in some oversights, this inventory should serve as an important database to which ongoing work in this regard may be added. To date, 4973 publications have been recorded. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 2 Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 5 2. Methods 6 3. Scope of Review 9 4. Results 16 Appendix I 17 Appendix II 35 4 1. INTRODUCTION Background The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government commissioned Aqua-Fact International Services Ltd. to prepare a fully referenced inventory of publications that may potentially contain information regarding the distribution and abundance of marine wildlife in Ireland. Inventory Guidelines The NPWS identified the following guidelines regarding the publication inventory: No limitation with regard to publication date The term ‘Marine Wildlife’ was to include all fully marine, estuarine and brackish water habitats or species that rely on these habitats for a portion of their life history The review was to extend from the upper shoreline to the outer edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Ireland Only publications containing information that has the potential to become open to public access were to be included in the inventory All relevant sources of information were to be accessed 5 2. METHODS Appendix I shows details of the scope matrix that was created as part of this project. This scope shows a contact list of individuals who contributed to this work. These contacts were assigned to groups reflecting their area of work (e.g. Academia, Non- Governmental Organisations, etc.). Each of these groups will be discussed in more detail further on in this report. Initial contact was made via written letter/email. If a response was received, it was one of the three following types: • Written or emailed response stating that no relevant information was available • Written response accompanied by a hard copy of relevant information • Emailed response accompanied by an electronic version of the relevant information Upon acquiring relevant information, it was entered into Endnote in a format shown below: Author 1. Where actual authors are identifiable, enter names one under the other in the format <First initial. Second initial (if avail.). Surname> <First initial. Second initial (if avail.). Surname> 2. Where specific authors are not identifiable, enter <Anon> Title 1. Full name as it appears 2. No capitals except where ordinarily applicable 3. No full stops 4. Scientific notation apply (i.e., italics on species, etc) 6 Pages 1. For journal articles, there should be no spaces around the hyphen <number-number> 2. For total number of pages, pages number space pp. <number pp.> Date 1. This is the date the entry was made to the inventory Notes 1. Where a complete set of basic information pertaining to the publication was not readily retrievable, Incomplete was entered to flag this point. Keywords 1. These are determined from a list agreed with NPWS 2. They are entered one under the other 3. Keywords from the essential keywords list are entered where information is available and applicable 4. Thereafter, selective keywords are chosen to adequately describe the publication A list of the essential and selective keywords is shown in Table 1. The purpose in selecting these keywords was to condense the broad array of topics down to a small number of general terms. It must be noted here that the following keywords shown below are those selected by NPWS and in no way reflect those chosen by the individual authors/journals. 7 Table 1: A list of the essential and selective keywords used in the compilation of this catalogue Essential Selective Pelagic Marine Plankton Estuarine Fauna Brackish Flora Intertidal Benthic Subtidal Invertebrates Vertebrates Fish Birds Mammals Algae Angiosperm Lichen Taxonomic Key 8 3. SCOPE OF REVIEW Initially all contactable sources were grouped into categories based on their area of work (e.g., Academia, Non-Governmental Organisations, etc.). Each category will be discussed individually. While every attempt was made to ensure that all relevant data from all of the sources mentioned below was included in this catalogue, due to the vast extent of this project, some omissions are likely to be found. However, this catalogue will be continually undated for new and omitted information. It must also be noted that there is no consistency between author’s initials in this catalogue, and it may be noticed that duplicates are present in the catalogue, however those duplicates are in fact different publications. 1. Internet Sources Standard literature databases were accessed through the NUI Galway Library. They included the Web of Science, which incorporated Current Contents; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), which incorporated Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA); Hexacorallians of the World and the UK NBN Gateway. Information was gathered from these sites by entering the selected keywords (above) and carrying out a search of the publications held within each website. In cases where no relevant information was retrieved from the search, “Not Relevant’ was entered in the scope. Due to the vast quantity of journals assessable through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, a complete listing of the ASFA journal titles can be accessed through the following websites: http://www/csa/com/htbin/sjldisp.cgi?filename=/wais/data/srcjnl/asfa001 http://www/csa/com/htbin/sjldisp.cgi?filename=/wais/data/srcjnl/asfaset http://www/csa/com/htbin/sjldisp.cgi?filename=/wais/data/srcjnl/asfa003 http://www/csa/com/htbin/sjldisp.cgi?filename=/wais/data/srcjnl/marb001 The material covered by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ranged from 1971 to present. Web of Science, which contains 8, 700 journals ranging from 1970 to the present can be accessed through the following website: http://www.isnet.com/cgi-bin.jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=master 9 2. Irish Journals Table 2 shows a list of the journals and years included in this catalogue. These publications were taken directly from ‘An indexed bibliography of Irish marine literature from 1839 to 1997’ (Kelly et al., 1997). The 1997 to 2004 publications of the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy’ were accessed through the Royal Irish Academy web site. The 1997 to 2004 publications of the ‘The Irish Naturalists’ Journal’ were accessed through the Irish Naturalists’ Journal web site. The 1996 to 2004 publications of ‘Fisheries Investigation Series’ were accessed through the Marine Institute publications web page. The journals were searched, issue by issue and the relevant publications were entered into the catalogue. Table 2: Publications included in this catalogue from Kelly et al. 1997 Journal Years (inclusive) Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1839-1996 Irish Naturalist 1892-1925 The Irish Naturalists’ Journal 1925-1996 Irish Journal of Environmental Science 1980-1987 Bulletin of the Irish biogeographical Society 1977-1996 Annual Report of Fisheries, Ireland 1903-1905 Fisheries Ireland, Scientific Investigations 1905-1926 Irish Fisheries Investigations, Series B 1967-1995 Marine Fisheries Bulletin 1981-1993 Fisheries Leaflets 1969-1995 Lough Beltra Workshop Reports 1984-1991 Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Journals Journal of the Royal Dublin Society 1856-1870 Scientific Transactions of the RDS, Ser. II 1877-1905 10 Journal Years (inclusive) Scientific Proceedings of the RDS 1877-1957 Scientific Proceedings of the RDS, Ser. A 1959-1980 Scientific Proceedings of the RDS, Ser. B 1960-1976 Journal of Life Sciences RDS 1979-1985 Non-Irish Periodicals Irish Sea Study Group and Forum 1990-1995 Journal of the Marine Biological Association 1887-Feb. 1997 of the United Kingdom Progress in Underwater Science 1975-1991 Porcupine Newsletter 1975-Jan. 1997 3. Public Services Ireland Written letters/emails were sent out to the following organisations: Marine Institute; Lough Beltra Workshops; Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM); National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS); ENFO; Geological Survey Ireland (GSI); The Heritage