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PT J
TI Assessing sea floor functional biodiversity and vulnerability
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AF BEAUCHARD, Olivier
   THOMPSON, Murray S. A.
   ELLINGSEN, Kari E.
   PIET, Gerjan
   LAFFARGUE, Pascal
   SOETAERT, Karline
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C1 Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
   Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
   Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft Laboratory, Lowestoft NR33 0HT, UK
   Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), 9296 Tromsø, Norway
   Wageningen Marine Research, Wageningen University & Research, IJmuiden 1970 AB, The Netherlands
   IFREMER, Laboratoire Ecologie et Modèles pour l’Halieutique, 44311 Nantes, France
C2 INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS
   UNIV UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
   CEFAS, UK
   NORWEGIAN INST NAT RES NINA, NORWAY
   UNIV WAGENINGEN & RES CTR, NETHERLANDS
   IFREMER, FRANCE
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SE PDG-RBE-HALGO-EMH
UM DECOD
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   copubli-europe
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UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95378/103150.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95378/103151.xlsx
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95378/103152.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95378/103153.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95378/103154.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Benthic invertebrate;Effect trait;Ecosystem engineering;Ecosystem function;Functional group;Functional diversity;Vulnerability
AB The marine benthos has been largely studied through the use of response traits that characterise species vulnerability to disturbance. More limited has been the specific use of effect traits that represent other species descriptors and that express ecosystem functions. On the sea floor, the benthos is a key ecosystem-engineering component for which functions can be relevantly derived from effect traits. This study provides a typology of sea floor functions based on an extensive data compilation of effect traits. We classified 812 benthic invertebrate species from the northeast Atlantic by 15 effect traits expressing substratum alteration and habitat creation. Cluster analysis identified 15 species groups that represented various epi- or endobenthic functions. Beyond function-habitat specificity, we show that soft sediment species exhibited broader functional niches in the trait space that increase multi-functionality, and were endowed with rare combinations of traits that expanded the functional extent of the species assemblage. As a consequence, soft sediments can host a higher functional diversity than hard substrata because a wider range of above- and below-substratum activities are possible in soft bottoms. Based on response traits documented for the same species and used to express vulnerability to natural or human-induced disturbance, we then show that vulnerability within sea floor functions can be considerably variable. This can be a consequence of the independence between the evolutionary nature of response traits and the contingent engineering abilities of benthic species through effect traits. The paper provides theoretical and utilitarian clarifications on this trait dichotomy. 
PY 2023
PD MAR
SO Marine Ecology Progress Series
SN 0171-8630
PU Inter-research
VL 708
UT 000989709200002
BP 21
EP 43
DI 10.3354/meps14270
ID 95378
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