FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Interpretation of interannual variability in long-term aquatic ecological surveys BT AF Cauvy-Fraunié, Sophie Trenkel, Verena Daufresne, Martin Maire, Anthony Capra, Hervé Olivier, Jean-Michel Lobry, Jérémy Cazelles, Bernard Lamouroux, Nicolas AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:7;8:8;9:5; FF 1:;2:PDG-RBE-EMH;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Irstea Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, 89723, 5 rue la doua, Villeurbanne, France IFREMER - Centre de Nantes, 70611, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France Irstea Centre d'Aix-en-Provence, 84233, Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France EDF R and D Site de Chatou, 151443, Chatou, Île-de-France, France Irstea Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, 89723, Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes , France Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, 200932, LEHNA, Villeurbanne, France Irstea Centre de Bordeaux, 84269, Cestas, Aquitaine, France ENS, 26909, Paris, Île-de-France, France C2 IRSTEA, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IRSTEA, FRANCE EDF, FRANCE IRSTEA, FRANCE UNIV LYON, FRANCE IRSTEA, FRANCE ENS, FRANCE SI NANTES SE PDG-RBE-EMH IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france IF 1.685 TC 9 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00606/71805/70293.pdf LA English DT Article CR EVHOE EVALUATION HALIEUTIQUE OUEST DE L'EUROPE AB Long-term ecological surveys (LTES) often exhibit strong variability among sampling dates. The use and interpretation of such interannual variability is challenging due to the combination of multiple processes involved and sampling uncertainty. Here, we analysed the interannual variability in ~30 years of 150 species-density (fish and invertebrate) and environmental-observation time series in four aquatic-systems (stream, river, estuary, and marine continental shelf) with different sampling efforts to identify the information provided by this variability. We tested, using two empirical methods, whether we could observe simultaneous fluctuation between detrended time series corresponding to widely acknowledged assumptions about aquatic population dynamics: spatial effects, cohort effects, and environmental effects. We found a low number of significant results (36, 9, 0% for spatial, cohort, and environmental effects), suggesting that sampling uncertainty overrode the effects of biological processes. Our study does not question the relevance of LTES for detecting important trends, but clearly indicated that the statistical power to interpret interannual variations in aquatic-species densities is low, especially in large systems where the degree of sampling effort is always limited. PY 2020 PD MAY SO Canadian Journal Of Fisheries And Aquatic Sciences SN 0706-652X PU Canadian Science Publishing VL 77 IS 5 UT 000529378700010 BP 894 EP 903 DI 10.1139/cjfas-2019-0146 ID 71805 ER EF