A comparison of two biotic indices, AMBI and BOPA/BO2A, for assessing the Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) of benthic macro-invertebrates
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Títol: | A comparison of two biotic indices, AMBI and BOPA/BO2A, for assessing the Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) of benthic macro-invertebrates |
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Autors: | de-la-Ossa-Carretero, Jose Antonio | Dauvin, Jean-Claude |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | Biología Marina |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada | Université de Lille1. Station Marine de Wimereux |
Paraules clau: | Biotic Index | BOPA | AMBI | WFD |
Àrees de coneixement: | Zoología | Ecología |
Data de creació: | 2010 |
Data de publicació: | 2010 |
Editor: | Unversità del Salento |
Citació bibliogràfica: | OSSA CARRETERO, José Antonio de la; DAUVIN, Jean-Claude. “A comparison of two biotic indices, AMBI and BOPA/BO2A, for assessing the Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) of benthic macro-invertebrates”. Transitional Waters Bulletin. Vol. 4, No. 1 (2010). ISSN 1825-229X, pp. 12-24 |
Resum: | 1 - The assessment of quality status of Transitional Aquatic Ecosystems remains a challenge for the ecologists. 2 - Here, we compared the results of two common indices (AMBI - Ecological Groups and BOPA/BO2A -Taxonomic Sufficiency) from samples coming from the north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Both biotic indices rely on distinct assessments of species sensitivity/tolerance. 3 - Six studies provided the raw data that permitted AMBI and BOPA to be compared. A total 922 data element was available, most of them from the Seine estuary (78%). The database was later divided into three sub-sets: French Atlantic Transitional Waters, Mediterranean Coastal Waters and Mediterranean Lagoons. 4 - Both indices' values demonstrated a strong correlation; however, the BOPA index had a tendency to overestimate the EcoQS compared to the values obtained from AMBI index, mainly due to discrepancies between ‘high’ and ‘good’ quality. 5 - New thresholds for BOPA/BO2A index are proposed in order to reduce this overestimation. |
Patrocinadors: | French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea (MEEDDM) and the three regional Water Agencies: Seine Normandie, Bretagne-Pays de Loire and Adour Garonne. Predoctoral grant awarded by the University of Alicante. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/16579 |
ISSN: | 1825-229X |
DOI: | 10.1285/i1825229Xv4n1p12 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i1825229Xv4n1p12 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - BM - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers |
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