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TI Broad-scale mapping of seafloor habitats in the north-east Atlantic using existing environmental data
BT 
AF VASQUEZ, Mickael
   MATA CHACON, D.
   TEMPERA, Fernando
   O'KEEFFE, Eimear
   GALPARSORO, Ibon
   SANZ ALONSO, J. L.
   GONCALVES, Jorge M. S.
   BENTES, Luis
   AMORIM, Patricia
   HENRIQUES, Victor
   MCGRATH, Fergal
   MONTEIRO, Pedro
   MENDES, Beatriz
   FREITAS, Rosa
   MARTINS, Roberto
   POPULUS, Jacques
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C1 IFREMER, Ctr Bretagne, ZI Pointe Diable, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Inst Espanol Oceanog, Madrid 28002, Spain.
   Univ Azores, IMAR, Dept Oceanog & Fisheries, P-9901862 Horta, Acores, Portugal.
   Inst Marine, Oranmore, Galway, Ireland.
   AZTI Tecnalia, Div Marine Res, Pasaia 20110, Spain.
   Univ Algarve, Ctr Marine Sci CCMAR, P-8005139 Faro, Portugal.
   Inst Portugues Mar & Atmosfera, P-1449006 Lisbon, Portugal.
   Univ Aveiro, Dept Biol, P-3810193 Aveiro, Portugal.
   Univ Aveiro, CESAM, P-3810193 Aveiro, Portugal.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IEO, SPAIN
   UNIV AZORES, PORTUGAL
   MARINE INST GALWAY, IRELAND
   AZTI, SPAIN
   UNIV ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
   IPMA, PORTUGAL
   UNIV AVEIRO, PORTUGAL
   UNIV AVEIRO, PORTUGAL
SI BREST
   AUTRE
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-AG
   AUTRE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
IF 2.148
TC 28
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00216/32744/31149.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Habitat Mapping;EUNIS;Exposure;Biological Zones;Substrate
AB If marine management policies and actions are to achieve long-term sustainable use and management of the marine environment and its resources, they need to be informed by data giving the spatial distribution of seafloor habitats over large areas. Broad-scale seafloor habitat mapping is an approach which has the benefit of producing maps covering large extents at a reasonable cost. This approach was first investigated by Roff et al. (2003), who, acknowledging that benthic communities are strongly influenced by the physical characteristics of the seafloor, proposed overlaying mapped physical variables using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to produce an integrated map of the physical characteristics of the seafloor. In Europe the method was adapted to the marine section of EUNIS (European Nature Information System) classification of habitat types under the MESH project, and was applied at an operational level in 2011 under the EUSeaMap project. The present study compiled GIS layers for fundamental physical parameters in the northeast Atlantic, including (i) bathymetry, (ii) substrate type, (iii) light penetration depth and (iv) exposure to near-seafloor currents and wave action. Based on analyses of biological occurrences, significant thresholds were fine-tuned for each of the abiotic layers and later used in multi-criteria raster algebra for the integration of the layers into a seafloor habitat map. The final result was a harmonised broad-scale seafloor habitat map with a 250 m pixel size covering four extensive areas, i.e. Ireland, the Bay of Biscay, the Iberian Peninsula and the Azores. The map provided the first comprehensive perception of habitat spatial distribution for the Iberian Peninsula and the Azores, and fed into the initiative for a pan-European map initiated by the EUSeaMap project for Baltic, North, Celtic and Mediterranean seas.
PY 2015
PD JUL
SO Journal Of Sea Research
SN 1385-1101
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 100
UT 000358461200011
BP 120
EP 132
DI 10.1016/j.seares.2014.09.011
ID 32744
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