Résumé : Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’une collaboration entre l’Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie et le Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences de Wimereux (LOG). Il recense les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites sur la Côte d’Opale, en région Nord - Pas-de-Calais: le but de l'ouvrage est de présenter la liste la plus exhaustive possible des espèces marines introduites. Sont présentés la biologie, l'habitat, la date d'introduction parfois estimée ou la date de première signalisation, la répartition de l'espèce dans les mers avoisinantes ainsi que les problèmes environnementaux qu'elle pose éventuellement.

Droits : 2011 Agence de l'Eau Artois Picardie, LOG
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00158/26894/25125.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00158/26894/

Éditeur(s) : Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd
Résumé : Scientific fisheries surveys routinely identify a large diversity of commercial and non-commercial benthic megainvertebrates that could provide useful information for Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) descriptors. Species is obviously the basic taxonomic level to which most ecological studies and theories refer. Identification at this level of organization is indeed always preferred over any other taxonomic level. Nevertheless, aggregation of species to higher taxonomic levels may be unavoidable sometimes, since errors of identification are known or suspected to occur in many surveys. Using analyses of taxonomic sufficiency (identification of organisms at various taxonomic resolutions) and groups of morphospecies (taxa identified easily by non-experts on the basis of evident morphological traits), this study aims to quantify the loss of ecological information incurred by partial identification of benthic megafauna in bottom trawl surveys in order to put such data to good use. The analyses were conducted on five scientific surveys representing a large range of geographical areas (from 150 km2 to 150 000 km2) and environmental conditions. Results show that genus, family and, particularly, morphospecies are good surrogates for species identification in community analyses. We suggest that bottom trawl surveys can provide reliable megafauna data that may usefully complete those obtained by grab surveys. The use of morphospecies could lead to new strategies, combining different datasets to provide indicators for MSFD descriptors (e.g. D6).
Continental Shelf Research (0278-4343) (Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd), 2014-01 , Vol. 72 , P. 1-9

Droits : 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00162/27309/25538.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.015
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00162/27309/