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TI Habitat suitability for juvenile common sole (Solea solea, L.) in the Bay of Biscay (France): A quantitative description using indicators based on epibenthic fauna
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AF LE PAPE, Olivier
   BAULIER, Loic
   CLOAREC, Aurélie
   MARTIN, Jocelyne
   LE LOCH, Francois
   DESAUNAY, Yves
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2;5:2,3;6:2;
FF 1:;2:PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH;3:;4:PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH;5:;6:PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH;
C1 Univ Rennes 1, Dept Halieut, F-35042 Rennes, France.
   IFREMER, EMH, F-44311 Nantes, France.
   Ctr Rech Halieut, IRD, UR RAP, F-34203 Sete, France.
C2 UNIV RENNES, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   IRD, FRANCE
SI NANTES
   SETE
SE PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH
   IRD
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-p187
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.204
TC 42
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2402.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Bay of Biscay;Ecotrophic guilds;Epibenthic fauna;Habitat suitability models;Nursery ground;Solea solea
AB This study describes the spatial distribution of young-of-the-year common sole based on beam trawl surveys conducted in late summer in the coastal and estuarine parts of the Bay of Biscay (France). Previous studies showed that habitat suitability for juvenile common sole varies according to physical factors and notably bathymetry and sediment structure. Nevertheless, the use of these descriptors alone to model habitat suitability led to considerable unexplained variability in juvenile common sole distribution. Hence, the epibenthic macro- and megafauna collected during beam trawl surveys was taken into account to improve models of habitat suitability for these juvenile flatfish. Ecotrophic guilds based on life traits (behaviour, mobility and feeding) were used to develop generic indicators of trawled benthic fauna. These synthetic descriptors were used in generalized linear models of habitat suitability in order to characterize the distribution of juvenile common sole. This approach significantly improved the description based on physical descriptors and allowed demonstrating that young common sole distribution is related to the density of trawled deposit and suspension feeders and also of carnivorous organisms. These models provide a reliable method to develop indicators of nursery habitat suitability from trawl survey data with the aim of assessing and surveying their quality. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY 2007
PD FEB
SO Journal of Sea Research
SN 1385-1101
PU Elsevier
VL 57
IS 2-3
UT 000244636400005
BP 126
EP 136
DI 10.1016/j.seares.2006.08.011
ID 2402
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