FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Inter-annual variability of North Sea plaice spawning habitat BT AF LOOTS, CHRISTOPHE VAZ, Sandrine KOUBBI, P. PLANQUE, Benjamin COPPIN, Franck VERIN, Yves AS 1:1;2:1;3:2,3;4:4;5:1;6:1; FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCMMN-HMMN-RHBL;2:PDG-DOP-DCMMN-HMMN-RHBL;3:;4:;5:PDG-DOP-DCMMN-HMMN-RHBL;6:PDG-DOP-DCMMN-HMMN-RHBL; C1 IFREMER, Lab Ressources Halieut, F-62321 Boulogne, France. Univ Paris 06, UMR 7093, Lab Oceanog Villefranche, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. CNRS, UMR 7093, LOV, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. Inst Marine Res Tromso, N-9294 Tromso, Norway. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE INST MAR RES, NORWAY SI BOULOGNE SE PDG-DOP-DCMMN-HMMN-RHBL IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france IF 2.444 TC 12 TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique Université Pierre et Marie Curie UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00018/12900/9932.pdf LA English DT Article CR IBTS 2000 IBTS 2001 IBTS 2002 IBTS 2003 IBTS 2004 IBTS 2005 IBTS 2006 IBTS 2007 IBTS 2008 IBTS 2009 IBTS 2010 IBTS 92/2 IBTS 93/1 IBTS 93/2 IBTS 94/1 IBTS 94/2 IBTS 95/1 IBTS 95/2 IBTS 96/1 IBTS 96/2 IBTS 97 IBTS 98 IBTS 99 IYFS 92 - IBTS 92/1 BO Thalassa DE ;Potential Habitat;Generalised Additive Models;Spawning;Inter-annual Variability;North Sea plaice;Spatial Distribution AB Potential spawning habitat is defined as the area where environmental conditions are suitable for spawning to occur. Spawning adult data from the first quarter (January-March) of the International Bottom Trawl Survey have been used to study the inter-annual variability of the potential spawning habitat of North Sea plaice from 1980 to 2007. Generalised additive models (GAM) were used to create a model that related five environmental variables (depth, bottom temperature and salinity, seabed stress and sediment type) to presence-absence and abundance of spawning adults. Then, the habitat model was applied each year from 1970 to 2007 to predict inter-annual variability of the potential spawning habitat. Predicted responses obtained by GAM for each year were mapped using kriging. A hierarchical classification associated with a correspondence analysis was performed to cluster spawning suitable areas and to determine how they evolved across years. The potential spawning habitat was consistent with historical spawning ground locations described in the literature from eggs surveys. It was also found that the potential spawning habitat varied across years. Suitable areas were located in the southem part of the North Sea and along the eastern coast of England and Scotland in the eighties; they expanded further north from the nineties. Annual survey distributions did not show such northward expansion and remained located in the southern North Sea. This suggests that this species' actual spatial distribution remains stable against changing environmental conditions, and that the potential spawning habitat is not fully occupied. Changes in environmental conditions appear to remain within plaice environmental ranges, meaning that other factors may control the spatial distribution of plaice spawning habitat. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PY 2010 PD NOV SO Journal Of Sea Research SN 1385-1101 PU Elsevier Science Bv VL 64 IS 4 UT 000283686700001 BP 427 EP 435 DI 10.1016/j.seares.2010.01.007 ID 12900 ER EF