| An hydrobiological monitoring survey has been carried out in the Bay of Marennes-Oléron since 1977. Five stations, distributed over the Bay, were sam pied twice a month. Spatial and temporal trends of the physical characteristics (i.e., seawater, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and suspended matter), nutrients (azote, nitrite, nitrate, silicate) and organic variables (chlorophyll a and pheopigments) were assessed by using a statistical time-series analysis mode\. It was used to distinguish seasonal variability from long term trends. Pluviometric data as weil as the Charente River fluxes were similary analyzed by the model. The seasonal variability showed an homogeneous pattern over the five stations for all parameters, but the site-dependent... |
