Banyuls 43

Name of the station

#43

Name in the BenthOBS database

SNO Banyuls 43

Department

66 - Pyrénées-Orientales

Laboratory

Laboratoire d'Écogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques

Contact

Céline LABRUNE (celine.labrune@obs-banyuls.fr)

WFD water mass

FRDC01 - Frontière espagnole - Racou Plage

Latitude

Longitude

42.488833 (WGS84)

3.138667 (WGS84)

Start of the survey

1968, 1994, 2003

Periodicity of the survey

Once a year in winter since 2003, twice a year since 2019 (spring and autumn)

Surveyed parameters

Benthic invertebrate macrofauna abundances (> 1 mm)

Biomass (AFDW)

Granulometry

Organic matter

Neighbourhood of other NOS

SOMLIT, SOLA Station

Direct access to data

https://data.benthobs.fr/files/latest/63529/ 

Comments

Historical data available in datasets Guille, Revisite_Banyuls, Natura_2000 and IBIS

Related bibliography

Guille A., 1969. Bionomie benthique du plateau continental de la côte catalane française. Université de Paris.

Grémare A., Amouroux J.-M. & Vetion G., 1998. Long-term comparison of macrobenthos within the soft bottoms of the Bay of Banyuls-sur-mer (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Sea Research, 40, 281-302

Labrune C., Grémare A. & Guizien K., 2007. Long-term comparison of soft bottom macrobenthos in the Bay of Banyuls-sur-Mer (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea): a reappraisal. Journal of Sea Research, 58, 125-143

Bonifácio P., Grémare A., Amouroux J.-M. & Labrune C., 2019. Climate-driven changes in macrobenthic communities in the Mediterranean Sea: a 10-year study in the Bay of Banyuls-sur-Mer. Ecology and Evolution, 9, 10483-10498. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5569