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TI Feeding grounds for waders in the Bay of the Mont Saint-Michel (France): the Lanice conchilega reef serves as an oasis in the tidal flats
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AF DE SMET, Bart
   GODET, Laurent
   FOURNIER, Jerome
   DESROY, Nicolas
   JAFFRE, Mikael
   VINCX, Magda
   RABAUT, Marijn
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3,4;4:5;5:6;6:1;7:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;5:;6:;7:;
C1 Univ Ghent, Dept Biol, Marine Biol Sect, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
   Univ Nantes, UMR LETG Nantes Geolittomer 6554, CNRS, F-44312 Nantes 3, France.
   Museum Natl Hist Nat, UMR BOREA 7208, CNRS, F-75231 Paris 05, France.
   USM 404 Museum Natl Hist Nat, Stn Marine Dinard, F-35800 Dinard, France.
   IFREMER, Lab Environm & Ressources FBN, CRESCO, F-35800 Dinard, France.
   Univ Lille 1, UMR LOG 8187, Stn Marine Wimereux, F-62930 Wimereux, France.
C2 UNIV GHENT, BELGIUM
   UNIV NANTES, FRANCE
   MNHN, FRANCE
   MNHN, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV LILLE, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
SI DINARD
SE MNHN
   PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.393
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00134/24556/22769.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The tube-building polychaete Lanice conchilega can form dense populations, often called reefs, which promote benthic community change and constitute feeding grounds for secondary consumers. The aim of this study was to quantify the role of the L. conchilega reef of the Bay of the Mont Saint-Michel (BMSM) for feeding waders, by combining macrobenthos data, bird counts and bird diet information. Wader densities in the reef were on average 46.6 times higher than in non-reef areas. According to faecal analyses, waders in the reef mainly selected the accompanying fauna and especially crustaceans. The attractiveness of the reef to feeding birds may be largely explained by the high abundance, richness and biomass of macrobenthic species in the reef compared with the rest of the BMSM.
PY 2013
PD APR
SO Marine Biology
SN 0025-3162
PU Springer
VL 160
IS 4
UT 000316678700002
BP 751
EP 761
DI 10.1007/s00227-012-2130-3
ID 24556
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