Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters

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Bouchet, Vincent M. P.¹  Frontalini, Fabrizio²  Francescangeli, Fabio³  Sauriau, Pierre -Guy⁴  Geslin, Emmanuelle⁵  Martins, Maria Virginia Alves^6,7  Almogi-Labin, Ahuva⁸  Avnaim-Katav, Simona⁹  Di Bella, Letizia¹⁰  Cearreta, Alejandro¹¹  Coccioni, Rodolfo²  Costelloe, Ashleigh¹²  Dimiza, Margarita D.¹³  Ferraro, Luciana¹⁴  Haynert, Kristin¹⁵  Martinez-Col, Michael¹⁶  Melis, Romana¹⁷  Schweizer, Magali⁵  Triantaphyllou, Maria V.¹³  Tsujimoto, Akira¹⁸  Wilson, Brent¹⁹  du Chatelet, Eric Armynot²⁰ 

[1] Univ Littoral Cote dOpale, Lab Oceanol & Geosci, Univ Lille, CNRS,UMR 8187,LOG,Stn Marine Wimereux, F-59000 Lille, France

[2] Univ Urbino, Dipartimento Sci Pure & Applicate DiSPeA, Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, Campus Sci Enrico Mattei, I-61029 Urbino, Italy

[3] Univ Hamburg, Inst Geol, Ctr Earth Syst Res & Sustainabil, Bundesstr, D-5520146 Hamburg, Germany

[4] La Rochelle Univ, CNRS, Littoral Environm & Soc, UMR LIENSs 7266, 2 Rue Olympe Gouges, F-17000 La Rochelle, France

[5] Univ Nantes, Univ Angers, UMR LPG BIAF 6112, CNRS, 2 Bd Lavoisier, F-49000 Angers, France

[6] Rio de Janeiro State Univ UERJ, R Sao Francisco Xavier,524,Lab 1006, BR-20550900 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

[7] Aveiro Univ, Dept Geosci, GeoBioTec, Campus Santiago, P-3810197 Aveiro, Portugal

[8] Geol Survey Israel, Yeshayahu Leibowitz 32, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel

[9] Israel Oceanog & Limnol Res, IL-3108001 Haifa, Israel

[10] Sapienza Univ Roma, Dipartimento Sci Terra, Rome, Italy

[11] Univ Pais Vasco UPV EHU, Dept Geol, Apartado 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain

[12] BioStratig Associates Trinidad Ltd, 113 Frederick Settlement,Old Southern Main Rd, Caroni, Trinidad Tobago

[13] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Fac Geol & Geoenvironm, Athens 15784, Greece

[14] Natl Res Council Italy, Inst Marine Sci, CNR, Naples, Italy

[15] Univ Gottingen, JF Blumenbach Inst Zool & Anthropol, Gottingen, Germany

[16] Florida A&M Univ, Sch Environm, FSH Sci Res Ctr, RM306B,1515 South MLK Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA

[17] Dept Math & Geosci, I-34127 Trieste, Italy

[18] Shimane Univ, Fac Educ, 1060 Nishikawatsucho, Matsue, Shimane 6908504, Japan

[19] Cedar Lodge, Cei Newydd SA45 9RL, Ceredigion, Wales

[20] Univ Littoral Cote dOpale, Univ Lille, CNRS, UMR 8187,LOG,Lab Oceanol & Geosci, F-59000 Lille, France

关键词: Benthic foraminifera;    Transitional environments;    Environmental biomonitoring;    Total organic carbon;    Foram-AMBI;    English Channel;    European Atlantic coasts;    Mediterranean Sea;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112071

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

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.

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