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Rochette, S.; Rivot, Etienne; Morin, Jocelyne; Mackinson, S.; Riou, Philippe; Le Pape, Olivier. |
Estuaries and coastal waters are essential nursery habitats for many marine species, and especially for flatfishes. Thus, investigating how anthropogenic disturbances affect the quality of these habitats is of major importance to understand their consequences on the population renewal of marine species. The aim of the present study was to analyse the effects of estuarine habitat degradation on the population of the common sole in the Eastern Channel, a key species in the fish community and fisheries in this area. We especially focused on the drastic drop in the surface area and on the low water quality of the Seine estuary, the main river of the Eastern Channel. A geographic Information System (GIS) was used to develop quantitative maps of sole nursery... |
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Palavras-chave: Solea solea; Nursery; Habitat Mapping; Anthropogenic Disturbance; Seine Estuary; Recruitment. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11921/9799.pdf |
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Vasquez, Mickael; Mata Chacon, D.; Tempera, Fernando; O'Keeffe, Eimear; Galparsoro, Ibon; Sanz Alonso, J. L.; Goncalves, Jorge M. S.; Bentes, Luis; Amorim, Patricia; Henriques, Victor; Mcgrath, Fergal; Monteiro, Pedro; Mendes, Beatriz; Freitas, Rosa; Martins, Roberto; Populus, Jacques. |
If marine management policies and actions are to achieve long-term sustainable use and management of the marine environment and its resources, they need to be informed by data giving the spatial distribution of seafloor habitats over large areas. Broad-scale seafloor habitat mapping is an approach which has the benefit of producing maps covering large extents at a reasonable cost. This approach was first investigated by Roff et al. (2003), who, acknowledging that benthic communities are strongly influenced by the physical characteristics of the seafloor, proposed overlaying mapped physical variables using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to produce an integrated map of the physical characteristics of the seafloor. In Europe the method was adapted to... |
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Palavras-chave: Habitat Mapping; EUNIS; Exposure; Biological Zones; Substrate. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00216/32744/31149.pdf |
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