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PT J
TI Determining the Ecological Status of Benthic Coastal Communities: A Case in an Anthropized Sub-Arctic Area
BT 
AF Dreujou, Elliot
   Desroy, Nicolas
   Carrière, Julie
   Tréau de Coeli, Lisa
   McKindsey, Christopher W.
   Archambault, Philippe
AS 1:1,2,3;2:4;3:5,6;4:2,3,7;5:2,7;6:2,3,6;
FF 1:;2:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;3:;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Institut des Sciences de la Mer, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada
   Québec-Océan, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
   Takuvik Joint Université Laval/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratory, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
   Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Bretagne Nord, Institut Français pour la Recherche et l’Exploitation de la Mer, Dinard, France
   Institut Nordique de Recherche en Environnement et en Santé au Travail, Sept-Îles, QC, Canada
   Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
   Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada
C2 UNIV QUEBEC (UQAR-ISMER), CANADA
   QUEBEC-OCEAN, CANADA
   UNIV LAVAL, CANADA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   INREST, CANADA
   UNIV LAVAL, CANADA
   MPO INST MAURICE LAMONTAGNE, CANADA
SI DINARD
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   DOAJ
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 5.247
TC 15
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00687/79910/82820.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00687/79910/82821.docx
LA English
DT Article
DE ;environmental indicators;ecological status;coastal benthos;macrofauna;Gulf of St;Lawrence
AB With the widespread influence of human activities on marine ecosystems, evaluation of ecological status provides valuable information for conservation initiatives and sustainable development. To this end, many environmental indicators have been developed worldwide and there is a growing need to evaluate their performance by calculating ecological status in a wide range of ecosystems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. This study calculated and contrasted sixteen indicators of ecological status from three methodological categories: abundance measures, diversity parameters and characteristic species. This selection was applied to coastal benthic ecosystems at Sept-Îles (Québec, Canada), an important industrial harbor area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and related to habitat parameters (organic matter, grain size fractions, and heavy metal concentrations). Nearly all indicators highlighted a generally good ecological status in the study area, where communities presented an unperturbed profile with high taxa and functional diversities and without the dominance of opportunistic taxa. Some correlations with habitat parameters were detected, especially with heavy metals, and bootstrap analyses indicated quite robust results. This study provides valuable information on the application of environmental indicators in Canadian coastal ecosystems, along with insights on their use for environmental assessments. 
PY 2021
PD MAR
SO Frontiers In Marine Science
SN 2296-7745
PU Frontiers Media SA
VL 8
UT 000636461100001
DI 10.3389/fmars.2021.637546
ID 79910
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