The REBENT monitoring network, a spatially integrated, acoustic approach to surveying nearshore macrobenthic habitats: application to the Bay of Concarneau (South Brittany, France)

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1604-1615

  Ehrhold, Axel ^a   Hamon, Dominique ^a   Guillaumont, Brigitte ^a  

^a TECHNOPÔLE BREST IROISE   (France)

Author keywords

benthic habitats; grab sampling; maerl; ortho rectified aerial photography; pockmark; sediment; sidescan sonar; submarine video

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTER; BIODIVERSITY; HETEROGENEITY; MACROBENTHOS; MONITORING SYSTEM; POCKMARK; SEAFLOOR; SONAR;

BRETAGNE; CONCARNEAU; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINISTERE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASTERIAS; HAPLOOPS; LITHOTHAMNION; MALDANE; OPHIOCOMINA;

EID: 33750626260     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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