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TI Ecological quality assessment: A framework to report ecosystems quality and their dynamics from reference conditions
BT 
AF Sturbois, Anthony
   De Cáceres, Miquel
   Bifolchi, Aline
   Bioret, Frédéric
   Boyé, Aurélien
   Gauthier, Olivier
   Grall, Jacques
   Grémare, Antoine
   Labrune, Céline
   Robert, Alexandre
   Schaal, Gauthier
   Desroy, Nicolas
AS 1:1,2,3;2:4;3:5;4:6;5:7;6:3;7:3;8:8;9:9;10:10;11:3;12:10;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;11:;12:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;
C1 VivArmor Nature, Ploufragan, France
   Réserve naturelle nationale de la Baie de Saint‐Brieuc, Hillion, France
   Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) UMR 6539 CNRS/UBO/IRD/IFREMER, Plouzané ,France
   Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) Campus de Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
   Réserve naturelle régionale des landes et marais de Glomel, Glomel ,France
   Institut de Géoarchitecture Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest ,France
   Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, Plouzané ,France
   Université de Bordeaux CNRS, Bordeaux INP, UMR 5805, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Pessac ,France
   CNRS, Sorbonne Université UMR 8222 Laboratoire d'Écogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques (LECOB), Banyuls‐sur‐Mer ,France
   Ifremer Laboratoire Environnement et Ressources Bretagne nord, Dinard ,France
C2 VIVARMOR NATURE, FRANCE
   RESERV NATUR NATL BAIE SAINT‐BRIEUC, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   UNIV AUTONOMA BARCELONA, SPAIN
   RESERV NATUR REG LANDES MARAIS GLOMEL, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
   DINARD
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO
   PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN
UM LEMAR
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.7
TC 1
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00869/98091/107346.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00869/98091/107347.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00869/98091/107348.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;BACI;ecological dynamic regime;ecological quality status;ecological trajectory analysis;experimental design;impact studies;recovering;restoration;shifting baselines
AB Worldwide, ecosystems are suffering important taxonomic and functional modifications in response to anthropogenic disturbances, operating at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Awareness on biodiversity losses has led to the adoption of conservation policies and the development of programs devoted to the conservation and the restoration of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. The assessment of the ecological health of ecosystems requires measuring and characterizing restoration or degradation dynamics and their consequences on the ecological quality with respect to reference conditions defined pragmatically as conservation targets. Methodological innovations, in terms of data collection, analysis, and visualization, have an important influence on the ability of ecologists to understand biodiversity changes. The assessment of the quality of ecosystems with respect to reference conditions requires to address, notably, three main challenges: the definition of reference conditions, the assessment of the degree of achievement of conservation objectives, and the qualitative and quantitative characterization of recovering and departing patterns. We propose here the ecological quality assessment (EQA) framework as a data‐driven approach to track ecological quality focusing on the distance of the tested stations with respect to a chosen reference envelope using fuzzy logic and trajectory analysis. We take advantage of those analytical tools to propose a general and flexible multivariate framework by quantifying the achievement of reference conditions, measuring restoration and degradation dynamics when temporal series are available, and representing and synthesizing this information. To take into account the natural spatiotemporal variability of sites considered as reference, we gave two variants to our framework: a state‐based variant when no temporal replications are available and a trajectory‐based variant specially devoted to compare whole trajectories to a trajectory reference envelope defined by a set of reference trajectories. These two complementary approaches were illustrated through two terrestrial and marine ecological applications using the R package “ecotraj” in order to evidence ecological observations that meet conservation objectives from those that do not meet them. EQA constitutes a flexible framework for the assessment and reporting of ecosystem quality, including restoration and degradation dynamics adaptable to multiple questions in the different fields of ecology and conservation. 
PY 2023
PD DEC
SO Ecosphere
SN 2150-8925
PU Wiley
VL 14
IS 12
UT 001125930200001
DI 10.1002/ecs2.4726
ID 98091
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