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Shelf Res. 72(1)</i>: 1-9. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.015\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.015</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Brind'Amour, A.; Laffargue, P.; Morin, J.; Vaz, S.; Foveau, A.; Le Bris, H.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Brind'Amour, A. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"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. 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