FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Changes in North Sea macrofauna communities and species distribution between 1986 and 2000 BT AF KROENCKE, Ingrid REISS, Henning EGGLETON, Jacqueline D. ALDRIDGE, John BERGMAN, Magda J. N. COCHRANE, Sabine CRAEYMEERSCH, Johan A. DEGRAER, Steven DESROY, Nicolas DEWARUMEZ, Jean-Marie DUINEVELD, Gerard C. A. ESSINK, Karel HILLEWAERT, Hans LAVALEYE, Marc S. S. MOLL, Andreas NEHRING, Stefan NEWELL, Richard OUG, Eivind POHLMANN, Thomas RACHOR, Eike ROBERTSON, Mike RUMOHR, Heye SCHRATZBERGER, Michaela SMITH, Rebecca BERGHE, Edward Vanden VAN DALFSEN, Jan VAN HOEY, Gert VINCX, Magda WILLEMS, Wouter REES, Hubert L. AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:2;5:3;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:7;10:8;11:3;12:9;13:10;14:3;15:11;16:12;17:13;18:14;19:11;20:15;21:16;22:17;23:2;24:2;25:18;26:19;27:6;28:6;29:6;30:2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:PDG-ODE-LER-LERFBN;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:;18:;19:;20:;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:;26:;27:;28:;29:;30:; C1 Senckenberg Meer, Marine Res Dept, D-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany Ctr Environm Fisheries & Aquaculture Sci, Lowestoft NR33 0HT, Suffolk, England Netherlands Inst Sea Res, NL-1792 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands Akvaplan Niva AS, N-9296 Tromso, Norway Wageningen IMARES, Inst Marine Resources & Ecosyst Studies, NL-4400 AB Yerseke, Netherlands Univ Ghent, Marine Biol Sect, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium IFREMER, Labs Environm Littoral & Ressources Aquacoles Fin, Stn Dinard, F-35801 Dinard, France CNRS, UMR LOG 8187, Stn Marine Wimereux, F-62930 Wimereux, France Rijksinst Kust Zee RIKZ, NL-9750 AE Haren, Netherlands Inst Agr & Fisheries Res ILVO Fisheries, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium Univ Hamburg, Inst Oceanog, Ctr Marine & Climate Res ZMAW, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Bundesanstalt Gewasserkunde, D-56068 Koblenz, Germany Marine Ecol Surveys Ltd, Bath BA1 2AY, Avon, England Norwegian Inst Water Res NIVA, Branch Off S, N-4879 Grimstad, Norway Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, D-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany Marine Scotland Sci, Scottish Govt, Marine Lab, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, Scotland Leibniz Inst Marine Sci IFM GEOMAR, D-24105 Kiel, Germany Flanders Marine Inst VLIZ, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium DELTARES, NL-2600 MH Delft, Netherlands C2 SENCKENBERG MEER, GERMANY CEFAS, UK INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS AKVAPLAN NIVA AS, NORWAY IMARES, NETHERLANDS UNIV GHENT, BELGIUM IFREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE RIKZ, NETHERLANDS ILVO, BELGIUM UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY BUNDESANSTALT GEWASSERKUNDE, GERMANY MARINE ECOL SURVEYS LTD, UK NIVA, NORWAY INST A WEGENER, GERMANY FRS, UK IFM GEOMAR, GERMANY VLIZ, BELGIUM DELTARES, NETHERLANDS SI DINARD SE PDG-ODE-LER-LERFBN IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe IF 2.247 TC 73 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00043/15428/12798.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00043/15428/12888.pdf LA English DT Article BO Sepia II DE ;long-term variability;distribution shift;NAOI;regime shift;non-native species;benthic communities AB The North Sea Benthos Project 2000 was initiated as a follow-up to the 1986 ICES North Sea Benthos Survey with the major aim to identify changes in the macrofauna species distribution and community structure in the North Sea and their likely causes. The results showed that the large-scale spatial distribution of macrofauna communities in the North Sea hardly changed between 1986 and 2000, with the main divisions at the 50 m and 100 m depth contours. Water temperature and salinity as well as wave exposure, tidal stress and primary production were influential environmental factors on a large (North Sea-wide) spatial scale. The increase in abundance and regional changes in distribution of various species with a southern distribution in the North Sea in 2000 were largely associated with an increase in sea surface temperature, primary production and, thus, food supply. This can be most likely related to the North Sea hydro-climate change in the late 1980s influenced by the variability in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Only one cold-temperate species decreased in abundance in 2000 at most of the stations. Indications for newly established populations of offshore non-native species were not found. Differences in macrofauna community structure on localised spatial scales were predominantly found north of the 50 m depth contour off the British coast along the Flamborough Head Front towards the Dogger Bank, off the coast of Jutland and at the Frisian Front. These changes were most likely attributed to stronger frontal systems in 2000 caused by the increased inflow of Atlantic water masses in relation to the hydro-climate change in the late 1980s. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PY 2011 PD JUN SO Estuarine Coastal And Shelf Science SN 0272-7714 PU Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd VL 94 IS 1 UT 000294150400001 BP 1 EP 15 DI 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.04.008 ID 15428 ER EF