VELYGER Database: The Oyster Larvae Monitoring French Project ...

• Main Authors: Pouvreau, Stephane, Maurer, Daniele, Auby, Isabelle, Lagarde, Franck, Le Gall, Patrik, Cochet, Hélène, Bouquet, Anne-Lise, Geay, Amélie, Mille, Dominique
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: SEANOE 2022
• Subjects: Crassostrea gigas; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17882/41888; https://www.seanoe.org/data/00308/41888/

Worldwide, shellfish aquaculture and fisheries in coastal ecosystems represent crucial activities for human feeding. But these biological productions are under the pressure of climate variability and global change. Anticipating the biological processes affected by climate hazards remains a vital objective for species conservation strategies and human activities that rely on. Within marine species, filter feeders like oysters are real key species in coastal ecosystems due to their economic and societal value (fishing and aquaculture) but also due to their ecological importance. Indeed oysters populations in good health play the role of ecosystem engineers that can give many ecosystem services at several scales: building reef habitats that contribute to biodiversity, benthic-pelagic coupling and phytoplankton bloom control through water filtration, living shorelines against coastal erosion… The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793), which is currently widespread worldwide, was introduced into the ...