@article {5811,
	title = {{Benthic foraminifera to assess Ecological Quality Statuses in Italian transitional waters}},
	journal = {Ecological Indicators},
	volume = {84},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {<p>Estuaries, lagoons and lakes, identified as transitional waters (TWs), are fragile ecotones at the interface between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The assessment of their Ecological Quality status (EcoQ), required by marine legislations, is rather uncertain when based on traditional benthic macrofaunal indices. This study proposes to assess the EcoQ of marine waters using the diversity index Exp(H{\textquoteright}bc) based on living benthic foraminifera. By testing this method on datasets from five Italian TWs, we showed that EcoQ{\textquoteright}s assessment based on foraminifera reflected changes in environmental conditions. Benthic foraminifera highlighted the degradation of most, if not all, study sites, ranking most of the TWs in {\textquotedblleft}Moderate{\textquotedblright} to {\textquotedblleft}Bad{\textquotedblright} EcoQs. Although the assessment of EcoQs estimated from diversity indices was similar when based on benthic foraminifera or macrofauna, discrepancies occurred if diversity index calculated on foraminifera and sensitivity-based indices applied on macrofauna were compared. Our results demonstrated that the Exp(H{\textquoteright}bc) index based on living benthic foraminifera is a promising approach to assess EcoQs. Finally, we argue that benthic foraminifera, for their preservation potential as fossil within sediment, are a reliable option to define reference conditions and targets.</p>
},
	keywords = {Diversity index, Ecological quality status, Italian transitional waters, Living benthic foraminifera, Marine strategy framework directive, Water framework directive},
	issn = {1470160X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.055},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X17304685},
	author = {Vincent M.P. Bouchet and Goberville, Eric and Fabrizio Frontalini}
}
@article {5366,
	title = {Regional and latitudinal patterns of soft-bottom macrobenthic invertebrates along French coasts: Results from the RESOMAR database},
	journal = {Journal of Sea Research},
	volume = {130},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {96 - 106},
	abstract = {<p>This study aims to describe the patterns of soft bottom macrozoobenthic richness along French coasts. It is based on a collaborative database developed by the {\textquotedblleft}R{\'e}seau des Stations et Observatoires Marins{\textquotedblright} (RESOMAR). We investigated patterns of species richness in sublittoral soft bottom habitats (EUNIS level 3) at two different spatial scales: 1) seaboards: English Channel, Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean Sea and 2) 0.5{\textdegree} latitudinal and longitudinal grid. Total observed richness, rarefaction curves and three incidence-based richness estimators (Chao2, ICE and Jacknife1) were used to compare soft bottom habitats species richness in each seaboard. Overall, the Mediterranean Sea has the highest richness and despite higher sampling effort, the English Channel hosts the lowest number of species. The distribution of species occurrence within and between seaboards was assessed for each major phylum using constrained rarefaction curves. The Mediterranean Sea hosts the highest number of exclusive species. In pairwise comparisons, it also shares a lower proportion of taxa with the Bay of Biscay (34.1\%) or the English Channel (27.6\%) than that shared between these two seaboards (49.7\%). Latitudinal species richness patterns along the Atlantic and English Channel coasts were investigated for each major phylum using partial LOESS regression controlling for sampling effort. This showed the existence of a bell-shaped latitudinal pattern, highlighting Brittany as a hotspot for macrobenthic richness at the confluence of two biogeographic provinces.</p>
},
	keywords = {France, Latitudinal pattern, Regional pattern, Soft-bottom, Species richness, Zoobenthos},
	issn = {1385-1101},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2017.03.011},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385110116302660},
	author = {R{\'e}gis K. Gallon and Nicolas Lavesque and Jacques Grall and C{\'e}line Labrune and Antoine Gr{\'e}mare and Guy Bachelet and Hugues Blanchet and Paulo Bonif{\'a}cio and Vincent M.P. Bouchet and Jean-Claude Dauvin and Nicolas Desroy and Franck Gentil and Laurent Guerin and C{\'e}line Houbin and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Jourde and Sandrine Laurand and Michel Le Duff and Vincent Le Garrec and Xavier de Montaudouin and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Olivier and Francis Orvain and Pierre-Guy Sauriau and Eric Thi{\'e}baut and Olivier Gauthier}
}
