| Marine biological distribution patterns are largely regulated by the physico-chemical properties of the overlying waters. The availability of new environmental layers with sub-kilometric resolution is therefore of great use to map marine in objective ways and therefrom interpret biogeographic patterns, optimize region-wide field surveys or plan in situ experiments. This report presents a data-driven high-resolution partitioning of Brittany’s infralittoral seabed environment areas with comparable environmental conditions. Six major abiotic drivers of shallow-water biological communities are used to compose its environmental space, notably: temperature, salinity, oxygen, light, wave-induced kinetic energy and baroclinic currents kinetic energy. Each... |
