seanoe:87709 data@seanoe.org 2024-01-02 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Functional traits of benthic marine invertebrates associated with eelgrass meadows in France 2022-04 2024-01-02 Muller Alexandre, Auby Isabelle, Becheler Ronan, Boye Aurelien, Chevalier Mathieu, Droual Gabin, Dubois Stanislas, Fournier Jérôme, Nunes Flávia L. D. (2022). Functional traits of benthic marine invertebrates associated with eelgrass meadows in France. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/87709 In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication : Alexandre Muller, Stanislas F. Dubois, Aurélien Boyé, Ronan Becheler, Gabin Droual, Mathieu Chevalier, Marine Pasquier, Loïg Roudaut, Jérôme Fournier, Isabelle Auby, Flávia L. D. Nunes (2022). Sheath size doesn't matter: environment shapes eelgrass biodiversity more than a foundation species' traits. Submitted to diversity and distributions Zostera marina (Linnaeus, 1753) is a flowering marine plant that occurs from temperate to subantarctic regions (Green and Short, 2003), forming meadows that are recognized as being among the most important ecosystems on the planet (Costanza et al., 1997; Duffy, 2006; Duarte et al., 2008; Dewsbury et al., 2016). Eelgrass is a foundation species, providing essential functions and services including coastal protection, erosion control, nutrient cycling, water purification, carbon sequestration, as well as food and habitat for a variety of species (Duarte 2002; Heck et al. 2003; Healey & Hovel 2004, Orth et al. 2006; Barbier et al., 2011; Fourqurean et al. 2012; Cullen-Unsworth & Unsworth 2013; Schmidt et al. 2011, 2016). Eelgrass can have a strong influence on the spatial distribution of associated fauna by altering the hydrodynamics of the marine environment (Fonseca and Fisher 1986), stabilizing sediments (Orth et al. 2006), providing abundant resources, available surface area, and increased ecological niches. Meadows also provide protection from predation by providing greater habitat complexity both above and below ground (Heck and Wetstone 1977; Orth et al. 1984; Gartner et al. 2013, Reynolds et al., 2018). Local patterns and regional differences in the taxonomic and functional diversity of assemblages associated with five Zostera marina meadows occurring over a distance of 800 km along the coast of France were investigated with the objective of determining which factors control community composition within this habitat. To this end, we examined - and -diversity of species- and trait-based descriptors, focused on polychaetes; bivalves and gastropods, three diverse groups exhibiting a wide range of ecological strategies (Jumars, Dorgan, & Lindsay, 2015) and having central roles in ecosystem functioning through activities such as bioturbation or trophic regime (Queirós et al., 2013, Duffy et al., 2015). Here we present the abundance (Table 1) and the functional trait database (Table 2) used for the benthic macrofauna found to live in association with eelgrass meadows in Chausey, Dinard, Sainte-Marguerite, Ile d’Yeu and Arcachon, sampled in the fall of 2019. Eight biological traits (divided into 32 modalities, Table S1) were selected, providing information linked to the ecological functions performed by the associated macrofauna. The selected traits provide information on: (i) resource use and availability (by the trophic group of species, e.g. Thrush et al. 2006); (ii) secondary production and the amount of energy and organic matter (OM) produced based on the life cycle of the organisms (including longevity, maximum size and mode of reproduction, e.g. (Cusson and Bourget, 2005; Thrush et al., 2006) and; (iii) the behavior of the species in general [i.e. how these species occupy the environment and contribute to biogeochemical fluxes through habitat, movement, and bioturbation activity, e.g. (Solan et al., 2004; Thrush et al., 2006; Queirós et al., 2013). Species were scored for each trait modality based on their affinity using a fuzzy coding approach (Chevenet et al., 1994), where multiple modalities can be attributed to a species if appropriate, and allowed for the incorporation of intraspecific variability in trait expression. Information for polychaetes was primarily extracted from Fauchald et al (1979), Jumars et al (2015), and Boyé et al (2019). Information for mollusks was obtained either from biological trait databases (www.marlin.ac.uk/biotic, www.univie.ac.at/arctictraits, Bacouillard et al 2020) or from publications (e.g. Queiros et al. 2013; Thrush et al, 2006; Caine, 1977). Information was collected at the lowest possible taxonomic level and when missing was based on data available in other species of the genus, or in some cases, in the same family (only for traits with low variability for these families).   Figure 1. Map indicating the locations of the 5 study sites of Zostera marina meadows in France: three in the the English Channel, and two in the Bay of Biscay (all sites were sampled in 6 different stations).   The authors would like to thank X. Caisey, A. Tancray, M. Hubert, Y. Le Merrer et B. Gouilleux, L. Rigouin, M. Brandão, P.-A. Féchet for their help during field collections. Thanks to E. Thiebaut, L. Bacouillard, A. Jones, C. Poitrimol for providing functional trait information for our database. We also thank P.-O. Liabot and P. Cugier for their help in retrieving modeled environmental data and T. Bajjouk for eelgrass cartography and discussions on sampling site selection. A.M. was supported by a doctoral fellowship co-funded by Ifremer, the Region Bretagne and the ISBlue project (the Interdisciplinary graduate school for the blue planet, ANR-17-EURE-0015, co-funded by the “Investissements d’Avenir” program). This study is part of the INDIGENE project funded by the Office Français de la Biodiversité, Convention R&D 20/1001063. MULLER Alexandre Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France AUBY Isabelle Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France BECHELER Ronan Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France BOYE Aurelien Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France CHEVALIER Mathieu Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France DROUAL Gabin Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France DUBOIS Stanislas Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France Fournier Jérôme Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France NUNES Flávia L. D. Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, 29280 Plouzané, France SEANOE https://www.seanoe.org/data/00765/87709/illustration.gif Principal component analysis (PCA) of Hellinger‐transformed trait modality abundances. A. the sites for each point sampled in core and edge with their 95% confidence dispersion ellipses, represented in scaling 1 preserving the distances among the sites. B. positions of the trait modality for which the two first axes represented at least 40% (cumulative R2) of their variance, represented in scaling 2 Environment Benthic habitats Invertebrates ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names 2024-09-16 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.NVS.OD1 Environment SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines 2021-04-07 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.parameter.NVS.P08 Analysis data Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS 2024-10-15 geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution) Data are published without any warranty, express or implied. The user assumes all risk arising from his/her use of data. Data are intended to be research-quality and include estimates of data quality and accuracy, but it is possible that these estimates or the data themselves contain errors. 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Environmental filtering and biotic interactions act on different facets of the diversity of benthic assemblages associated with eelgrass 2023 Wiley Muller Alexandre Dubois Stanislas Boyé Aurélien Becheler Ronan Droual Gabin Chevalier Mathieu Pasquier Marine Roudaut Loïg Fournier‐sowinski Jérôme Auby Isabelle Nunes Flavia 10.1002/ece3.10159 oceans -5.405273 -0.263672 44.745164 49.237678 2019-09 2019-11 CSV PDF https://www.seanoe.org/data/00765/87709/data/93250.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download Quality controlled data Data files - 91 KB https://www.seanoe.org/data/00765/87709/data/93251.pdf WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download Table 1 - 122 KB https://doi.org/10.17882/87709 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL DOI of the product https://www.seanoe.org/data/00765/87709/ rel-canonical Seanoe