2024
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3869621/v1
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Integrated assessment of a coastal lagoon ecological status based on benthic macroinvertebrates

Loubna Boutahar,
Mehdi Maanan,
Oussama Bououarour
et al.

Abstract: Coastal lagoons are considered as one of the most productive ecosystems worldwide but are also vulnerable to the growing human-made stressors. This study aimed at assessing, for the first time, the ecological status of the Oualidia lagoon (Atlantic coast of Morocco) using benthic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators. An integrative ecological monitoring approach based on spatial diversity patterns of species assemblages (examined using taxonomic indices, structural trophic guilds as indicators of the functional… Show more

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