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TI Coupling a watershed model of the Seine river with a 3D ecological model of the English Channel in order to study eutrophication problems
OT Couplage d'un model de basin versant de la Seine à une modèle écologique 3D de la Manche afin d'étudier les problèmes d'eutrophisation
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AF CUGIER, Philippe
   PASSY, Paul
   CALLENS, Julie
   GARNIER, Josette
   RIOU, Philippe
   BILLEN, Gilles
   LE GENDRE, Romain
   PARIS, Francois
AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:2;5:3;6:2;7:3;8:3;
FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-BENTHOS;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LER-LERN;6:;7:PDG-ODE-LER-LERN;8:PDG-ODE-LER-LERN;
C1 IFREMER, ODE/DYNECO, Lab Ecologie Benthique, B.P. 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
   UPMC, CNRS, UMR 7619 Sisyphe, Boite 123, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
   IFREMER, Lab Environnement Ressources de Normandie, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, BP 32, 14520 Port En Bessin, France
C2 IFREMER, ODE/DYNECO, Lab Ecologie Benthique, B.P. 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
   UPMC, CNRS, UMR 7619 Sisyphe, Boite 123, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
   IFREMER, Lab Environnement Ressources de Normandie, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, BP 32, 14520 Port En Bessin, France
SI BREST
   PORT-EN-BESSIN
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-BENTHOS
   PDG-ODE-LER-LERN
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00061/17211/15019.pdf
LA English
DT Poster
AB Eutrophication of the Seine river/estuary/bay continuum of the French coast of the English Channel is a subject of growing concern. Because of huge nutrient inputs from the Seine river, with an excess of nitrogen over phosphorus and silica, chlorophyll concentrations reach very high level and episodic blooms of toxic dinoflagellates are regularly observed. In order to better understand the relationship between these ecological processes and the human activities in the Seine watershed, two models have been developed and used in connection : 1/ a model describing nutrient (N, P, Si) transfer processes at the scale of the whole Seine Basin (SENEQUE/RIVERSTRAHLER, Thieu et al, 2009), allowing human activity (agricultural practices, waterscape management, urban wastewater treatment, etc.) to be related to fluxes delivered to the sea, 2/ a 3D hydrodynamic (MARS model, Lazure & Dumas, 2008) and ecological model of the Seine Bight (Cugier et al. 2005) reproducing the spatio-temporal variations of sediment transport, thermo-haline stratification and phytoplanktonic development in the plume of the Seine river. Various scenarios of human activity in the watershed and the impacts at the coastal zone are simulated by these coupled models and analysed in terms of nutrients and phytoplankton dynamics. Such a modelling chain, describing an aquatic continuum from head waters to coastal zone represents a powerful tool to study several hypotheses of river basin management and their impact on the marine ecosystem. We show that the measures taken in the European Water Framework Directive would not restore the nutrient Redfield ratio (N:P:Si) required for an equilibrated algal development and seasonal succession. Such an approach therefore provides a better understanding of how human activities in the watershed govern the functioning of the river–estuary-coastal sea continuum.
PY 2011
PD JUL
ID 17211
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