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Updated biological traits' scoring and protection status to calculate sensitivity to trawling on mega-epibenthic fauna
Particularly suited to the purpose of measuring the sensitivity of benthic communities to trawling, a trawl disturbance indicator (de Juan and Demestre, 2012, de Juan et al. 2009) was proposed based on benthic species biological traits to evaluate the sensibility of mega- and epifaunal community to fishing pressure known to have a physical impact on the seafloor (such as dredging and bottom trawling). The selected biological traits were chosen as they determine vulnerability to trawling: mobility, fragility, position on substrata, average size and feeding mode that can easily be related to the fragility, recoverability and vulnerability ecological concepts. The five categories retained are functional traits that were selected based on the knowledge of the response of benthic taxa to trawling disturbance (de Juan et al., 2009). They reflect respectively the possibility to avoid direct gear impact, to benefit from trawling for feeding, to escape gear, to get caught by the net and to resist trawling/dredging action, each of these characteristics being either advantageous or sensitive to trawling. To expand this approach to that proposed by Certain et al. (2015), the protection status of certain species was also indicated.
To enable quantitative analysis, a score was assigned to each category: from low sensitivity (0) to high sensitivity (3). Biological traits of species have been defined, from the BIOTIC database (MARLIN, 2014) and from information given by Garcia (2010), Le Pape et al. (2007) and Brind’Amour et al. (2009). For missing traits, additional information from literature has been considered.
The protection status of each taxa was also scored: Atlantic species listed in OSPAR List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats (https://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/species-habitats/list-of-threatened-declining-species-habitats) and Mediterranean species listed in Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (FAO, 2018 and Oceana, 2017) were scored 3 and other species were scored 1.
The scores of 1085 taxa commonly found in bottom trawl by-catch in the southern North Sea, English Channel and north-western Mediterranean were described.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-02
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-09-16
- Other citation details
- Foveau Aurelie, Jac Cyrielle, Llapasset Margaux, Guillerme Chloé, Desroy Nicolas, Vaz Sandrine (2020). Updated biological traits' scoring and protection status to calculate sensitivity to trawling on mega-epibenthic fauna. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/59517
- Credit
- This study was partly supported by the INTERREG IV A project CHARM III (CHannel integrated Approach for marine Resource Management), the French research agency (ANR), through the project COMANCHE (Ecosystem interactions and anthropogenic impacts on great scallop populations in the English Channel) - ANR-2010-STRA-010, France Filière Pêche (FFP), through the Galion project, EU DG-ENV, through the IDEM project and EC2CO, through the Benthchal project. The authors are grateful to all scientists and crew members who participated to the surveys and helped collecting and identify the benthic fauna.
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- benthic fauna
- disturbance
- sensitivity
- indicator
- biological traits
- Biological oceanography
- Fisheries and aquaculture
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- CC-BY-ND (Creative Commons - Attribution, No modification)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1016/j.csr.2022.104828
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- Cross reference
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- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2021
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1093/icesjms/fsab011
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- Cross reference
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- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2021
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1093/icesjms/fsab033
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- Cross reference
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- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2020
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106631
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- Cross reference
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- Study
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- 2015
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- 10.1093/icesjms/fsv003
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- Cross reference
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- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2012
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- 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.020
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2009
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- 10.1016/j.csr.2009.01.003
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2009
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1016/j.marpol.2008.11.005
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2007
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.1016/j.seares.2006.08.011
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Study
- Date (Publication)
- 2017
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/51078
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2016
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.17882/44632
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- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- dataset
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- English
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- Oceans
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- English
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- Date stamp
- 2022-09-16
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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