Assessment of soft-bottom polychaete assemblages in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) based on a mesoscale survey

Long-term (1998 vs. 2010) large-scale comparison of soft-bottom benthic macrofauna composition in the Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean Sea

“…Based on a meta-analysis of benthic macrofauna data collected along the portion of coast between Barcelona (Spain) and Palavas-les-Flots (France) before 1970 and during the 1990s, Grémare et al (1998b) showed that increases in density of Ditrupa arietina occurred over this whole area. Moreover, based on the 1998 large scale sampling, Labrune et al (2007aLabrune et al ( , 2008 identified 2 slightly different modalities of the Littoral Sandy Mud community depending on the geographical distance to the Rhône River mouth, which suggests that this river may have large-scale effect on benthic macrofauna community composition.…”

“…Based on a large-scale study of benthic macrofauna in the whole Gulf of Lions carried out during 1998, Labrune et al (2007a) proposed a new typology consisting of 3 community types and established the correspondence with the two previously proposed typologies (Picard, 1965;Guille,1970). Up to now, temporal changes in benthic macrofauna composition in the Gulf of Lions have only been assessed through small spatial scales studies and only at the 2 extremities of the Gulf of Lions.…”

Diversity, distribution and ecology of the family Syllidae (Annelida) in the Portuguese coast (Western Iberian Peninsula)

“…This agrees with our results, in which the assemblage installed in coarser sediments was more diverse and abundant than that from finer sediments. It is recognized that polychaete communities exhibit a close relationship with sediments, depth, hydrodynamics and other abiotic parameters (e.g., Labrune et al 2007;Simboura et al 2000). The coarse sediments from the northwestern Portuguese continental shelf provide interstitial space to the small-sized and highly motile syllids and pisionids (Martins et al 2012c), but also lumbrinerids (Martins et al 2012b).…”

PortugueseMagelona(Annelida: Magelonidae) with a description of a new species, a re-description ofMagelona wilsoniGlémarec, 1966 and a key to adult Magelonidae from European waters

“…From the Northern Coast of Spain (Aguirrezabalaga 1984 (Bayed & Glémarec 1987: 70-147 m); off the coast of France (Fiege et al 2000: Banyuls-sur-Mer;Labrune et al 2007: between the French/Spanish border and the mouth of the Rhône, Gulf of Lions, 10-50 m, specimens described here); from the Adriatic Sea (OcchipintiAmbrogi et al 2005: Cesenatico coast, Northern Adriatic, 12 m).…”