TY - JOUR
T1 - Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring
T2 - Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters
AU - Bouchet, Vincent M.P.
AU - Frontalini, Fabrizio
AU - Francescangeli, Fabio
AU - Sauriau, Pierre Guy
AU - Geslin, Emmanuelle
AU - Martins, Maria Virginia Alves
AU - Almogi-Labin, Ahuva
AU - Avnaim-Katav, Simona
AU - Di Bella, Letizia
AU - Cearreta, Alejandro
AU - Coccioni, Rodolfo
AU - Costelloe, Ashleigh
AU - Dimiza, Margarita D.
AU - Ferraro, Luciana
AU - Haynert, Kristin
AU - Martínez-Colón, Michael
AU - Melis, Romana
AU - Schweizer, Magali
AU - Triantaphyllou, Maria V.
AU - Tsujimoto, Akira
AU - Wilson, Brent
AU - Armynot du Châtelet, Eric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - This work contributes to the ongoing work aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, benthic foraminifera from intertidal and transitional waters from the English Channel/European Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean Sea were assigned to five ecological groups using the weighted-averaging optimum with respect to TOC of each species. It was however not possible to assign typical salt marsh species due to the presence of labile and refractory organic matter that hampers TOC characterization. Tests of this study species' lists with Foram-AMBI on two independent datasets showed a significant correlation between Foram-AMBI and TOC, confirming the strong relation between foraminifera and TOC. For one of the validation datasets, associated macrofaunal data were available and a significant correlation was found between the foraminiferal Foram-AMBI and the macrofaunal AMBI. The here proposed lists should be further tested with sensitivity-based indices in different European regional settings.
AB - This work contributes to the ongoing work aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, benthic foraminifera from intertidal and transitional waters from the English Channel/European Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean Sea were assigned to five ecological groups using the weighted-averaging optimum with respect to TOC of each species. It was however not possible to assign typical salt marsh species due to the presence of labile and refractory organic matter that hampers TOC characterization. Tests of this study species' lists with Foram-AMBI on two independent datasets showed a significant correlation between Foram-AMBI and TOC, confirming the strong relation between foraminifera and TOC. For one of the validation datasets, associated macrofaunal data were available and a significant correlation was found between the foraminiferal Foram-AMBI and the macrofaunal AMBI. The here proposed lists should be further tested with sensitivity-based indices in different European regional settings.
KW - Benthic foraminifera
KW - English Channel
KW - Environmental biomonitoring
KW - European Atlantic coasts
KW - Foram-AMBI
KW - Mediterranean Sea
KW - Total organic carbon
KW - Transitional environments
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U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112071
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112071
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C2 - 33549924
AN - SCOPUS:85100402252
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 164
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
M1 - 112071
ER -