Title

Station Biologique de Roscoff - Bay of Morlaix monitoring

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Abstract

Since 1977, the Roscoff Biological Station has carried out long-term monitoring of macrobenthic populations at several points in the bay of Morlaix. Initiated following the pollution of the bottom of the bay by hydrocarbons from the Amoco Cadiz, these series then made it possible to describe the impact of a major anthropogenic disturbance on the diversity of marine communities and the processes of recolonization.

Two points are monitored in the Bay of Morlaix

• Black stone

• River of Morlaix (near Locquénolé)

The sustainability of these observations now provides a unique set of data to understand the dynamics and evolution of benthic populations and settlements in response to natural and/or anthropogenic variability in environmental conditions (e.g. climate change , eutrophication, pollution, introduction of exotic species). Originally implemented using the station's own resources, monitoring was carried out from 1990 to 2006 as part of the National Marine Environment Quality Observation Network (RNO). Between 2007 and 2014, they were very partially integrated into the REBENT program ( http://www.rebent.org/ ) coordinated by Ifremer.
The Pierre Noire point is a support point for the DCE and DCSMM surveillance programs.

Project website

http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/observation/biodiversite/communautes/benthos/suivis-a-long-terme-des-substrats-meubles-en-baie-de-morlaix

Keywords

• GOOS Physics, Biogeochemistry, and Cross-disciplinary EOVs
  • Dissolved organic carbon
  • Inorganic carbon
  • Nutrients
  • Oxygen
  • Particulate matter
  • Sea surface salinity
  • Sea surface temperature
  • Subsurface salinity
  • Subsurface temperature
• GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)
  • Fish abundance and distribution
  • Invertebrate abundance and distribution
  • Microbe biomass and diversity
  • Phytoplankton biomass and diversity

SOPs

• https://www.somlit.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/15-Protocole-Cytome%CC%81trie-2020.pdf

Outputs

Interested in publishing to OBIS

-

Data in OBIS

No; none of the biological data collected by the network is included in OBIS

Funding

Funding sector

Regions

France

Responsible

thiebaut@sb-roscoff.fr

Point of Contact

thiebaut@sb-roscoff.fr

Maintenance Frequency

2X Per Year

Temporal Extent

January 1977 -

Supplemental Information

No information provided

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