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Benthos monitoring in the intertidal mudflats of Pertuis-Charentais (Bay of Biscay) from 2004 on Citable as data publication Philippe A., Plumejeaud-Perreau C., Jourde J., Pineau P., Lachaussée N., Joyeux E., Corre F., Delaporte P. Bocher P. (2016): Benthos monitoring in the intertidal mudflats of Pertuis-Charentais (Bay of Biscay) from 2004 on. https://doi.org/10.14284/247 Contact: Philippe, Anne Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Description Benthos-Pertuis-Charentais is a spatially explicit benthic database, comprising 11 years of benthic data. It is the result of intensive benthic sampling that has been conducted on a regular grid (259 stations) covering the intertidal mudflats of the Pertuis-Charentais (Marennes-Ole'ron Bay and Aiguillon Bay). Samples were taken by foot or by boats during winter depending on tidal height, from December 2003 to February 2014. The present dataset includes abundances and biomass densities of all mollusc species of the study regions and principal polychaetes as well as their length, accessibility to shorebirds, energy content and shell mass when appropriate and available. This database has supported many studies dealing with the spatial distribution of benthic invertebrates and temporal variations in food resources for shorebird species as well as latitudinal comparisons with other databases. Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Tidal flats, ANE, France, Pertuis Charentais, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Mollusca Geographical coverage ANE, France, Pertuis Charentais [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -1,229; MinLat: 45,8952 - MaxLong: -1,0757; MaxLat: 46,2895 [WGS84] Temporal coverage From 2 February 2004 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage Mollusca [WoRMS] Parameters Benthos abundance Benthos biomass Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Size frequencies Contributors Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Publication Based on this dataset Quaintenne, G. et al. (2011). Scaling up ideals to freedom: are densities of red knots across western Europe consistent with ideal free distribution? Proc. - Royal Soc., Biol. Sci. 278(1719): 2728-2736. dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0026, more Quaintenne, G. et al. (2010). Diet selection in a molluscivore shorebird across Western Europe: does it show short- or long-term intake rate-maximization? J. Anim. Ecol. 79(1): 53-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01608.x, more Compton, T.J. et al. (2009). Repeatable sediment associations of burrowing bivalves across six European tidal flat systems. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 382: 87-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07964, more Bocher, P. et al. (2007). Site- and species-specific distribution patterns of molluscs at five intertidal soft-sediment areas in northwest Europe during a single winter. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 151(2): 577-594. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-006-0500-4, more Describing this dataset Philippe, A. et al. (2017). Building a database for long-term monitoring of benthic macrofauna in the Pertuis-Charentais (2004-2014). Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e10288. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.5.e10288, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2016-10-18 Information last updated: 2016-10-19 | ||||
