@article {Chevillot2019473,
	title = {Global Changes Jeopardize the Trophic Carrying Capacity and Functioning of Estuarine Ecosystems},
	journal = {Ecosystems},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {473-495},
	publisher = {Springer New York LLC},
	abstract = {At the interface between terrestrial and marine biomes, estuaries display high ecological productivity and provide goods and services to humans. Associated with many ecological functions, they are nursery, refuge, and growing areas for many species fish. These ecological functions and services depend on both their ecological production and trophic carrying capacity and the durability of food web functioning. These transitional key habitats undergo both strong anthropogenic pressures and climatic influences that impact the structure and dynamics of estuarine biodiversity. In this context, we explore, here, three decades of the Gironde estuary ecosystem history to detect the food web{\textquoteright}s response to global changes-induced effect on biodiversity. At least two Ecological Abrupt Shifts associated with deep modifications in the biodiversity at most trophic levels have been documented for this particular ecosystem. Three food web models were thus calibrated, one for each of the three periods discriminated by the two shifts that occurred at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 2000s. Results highlighted that the ecotrophic efficiency estimate for subtidal macrofauna and shrimps reached the maximum possible values during the last period. This could mean that the Gironde estuary fully reached its trophic carrying capacity due to a food limitation especially for benthos demersal fish. We also observed a significant decrease in some food web indicators (such as Average Mutual Information, System Omnivory Index, and Average Path Length) usually associated with ecosystem stress, suggesting a significant impact of global change on the Gironde estuary ecosystem health and questioning the sustainability of the ecological functions associated with this ecosystem. {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.},
	keywords = {benthos, carrying capacity, demersal fish, ecosystem function, ecosystem health, food limitation, food web, France, Gironde Estuary, Global change, network analysis, trophic environment},
	issn = {14329840},
	doi = {10.1007/s10021-018-0282-9},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-018-0282-9},
	author = {Chevillot, X. and Tecchio, S. and Chaalali, A. and Lassalle, G. and Selleslagh, J. and Castelnaud, G. and David, V. and Guy Bachelet and Nathalie Niquil and Benoit Sautour and Lobry, J.}
}
@article {vanderHeijden201950,
	title = {Trophic importance of microphytobenthos and bacteria to meiofauna in soft-bottom intertidal habitats: A combined trophic marker approach},
	journal = {Marine Environmental Research},
	volume = {149},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {50-66},
	publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},
	abstract = {Meiofauna can play an important role in the carbon fluxes of soft-bottom coastal habitats. Investigation of their feeding behavior and trophic position remains challenging due to their small size. In this study, we determine and compare the food sources used by nematodes and benthic copepods by using stable isotope compositions, fatty acid profiles and compound specific isotope analyses of fatty acids in the mudflats, seagrass beds and a sandflat of the Marennes-Ol{\'e}ron Bay, France, and the Sylt-R{\o}m{\o} Bight, Germany. Suspended particulate organic matter was much more 13C-depleted than other food sources and meiofauna, highlighting its poor role in the different studied habitats. The very low proportions of vascular plant fatty acid markers in meiofauna demonstrated that these consumers did not rely on this food source, either fresh or detrital, even in seagrass beds. The combined use of stable isotopes and fatty acids emphasized microphytobenthos and benthic bacteria as the major food sources of nematodes and benthic copepods. Compound specific analyses of a bacteria marker confirmed that bacteria mostly used microphytobenthos as a substrate. {\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier Ltd},
	keywords = {Article, Bacillariophyta, bacteria, bacterium, Benthic copepods, Benthic diatoms, Biological materials, biomarker, Biomass, carbon 13, coastal zone, controlled study, Copepoda, delta carbon 13, delta nitrogen 15, Diatom, Ecosystems, fatty acids, Feeding Behavior, food supply, France, Free livings, Freeze Drying, Frisian Islands, Germany, high performance liquid chromatography, intertidal environment, isotope analysis, Isotopes, lipid composition, Marennes-Oleron Bay, Meiofauna, microbial activity, Microphytobenthos, mudflat, Mudflats, Nematoda, nitrogen 15, nonhuman, North Frisian Islands, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Organic matter, Phytobenthos, Plants (botany), Sandflats, seagrass, Seagrass beds, Sediment, soft-bottom environment, species habitat, substrate, suspended particulate organic matter, Sylt-Romo Bight, trophic environment, Trophic markers, Trophic structure, unclassified drug},
	issn = {01411136},
	doi = {10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.05.014},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141113618304744},
	author = {van der Heijden, L.H. and Graeve, M. and R. Asmus and Rzeznik-Orignac, J. and Nathalie Niquil and Bernier, Q. and Guillou, G. and H Asmus and Lebreton, B.}
}
