@article{3057481,
    title = "Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters",
    author = "Bouchet, V.M.P. and Frontalini, F. and Francescangeli, F. and Sauriau, P.-G. and Geslin, E. and Martins, M.V.A. and Almogi-Labin, A. and Avnaim-Katav, S. and Di Bella, L. and Cearreta, A. and Coccioni, R. and Costelloe, A. and Dimiza, M.D. and Ferraro, L. and Haynert, K. and Martínez-Colón, M. and Melis, R. and Schweizer, M. and Triantaphyllou, M.V. and Tsujimoto, A. and Wilson, B. and Armynot du Châtelet, E.",
    journal = "Marine Pollution Bulletin",
    year = "2021",
    volume = "164",
    publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
    issn = "0025-326X",
    doi = "10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112071",
    keywords = "Ecology, Benthic foraminifera;  Ecological groups;  English channel;  Mediterranean sea;  Refractory organic matter;  Total Organic Carbon;  Transitional waters;  Weighted averaging, Organic carbon, benthic foraminifera;  biomonitoring;  sensitivity analysis;  species diversity;  species richness;  total organic carbon, aquatic environment;  Article;  benthic foraminifera;  biological monitoring;  ecological group;  ecological phenomena and functions;  English Channel;  intermethod comparison;  intertidal water;  macrofauna;  Mediterranean Sea;  nonhuman;  phylogeography;  salt marsh;  species identification;  taxonomy;  total organic carbon;  transitional water;  validation process;  biological monitoring;  environmental monitoring;  foraminifer;  sediment, English Channel, Foraminifera, carbon, Biological Monitoring;  Carbon;  Environmental Monitoring;  Foraminifera;  Geologic Sediments;  Mediterranean Sea",
    abstract = "This work contributes to the ongoing work aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, benthic foraminifera from intertidal and transitional waters from the English Channel/European Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean Sea were assigned to five ecological groups using the weighted-averaging optimum with respect to TOC of each species. It was however not possible to assign typical salt marsh species due to the presence of labile and refractory organic matter that hampers TOC characterization. Tests of this study species' lists with Foram-AMBI on two independent datasets showed a significant correlation between Foram-AMBI and TOC, confirming the strong relation between foraminifera and TOC. For one of the validation datasets, associated macrofaunal data were available and a significant correlation was found between the foraminiferal Foram-AMBI and the macrofaunal AMBI. The here proposed lists should be further tested with sensitivity-based indices in different European regional settings. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd"
}