Long-term monitoring of coastal benthic habitats in the Kerguelen Islands: a legacy of decades of marine biology research

• Main Authors: Féral, Jean-Pierre, Poulin, Elie, González-Wevar, Claudio A., Améziane, Nadia, Guillaumot, Charlène, Develay, E, Saucède, Thomas
• Other Authors: Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Chile = University of Chile Santiago (UCHILE), Universidad Austral de Chile, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Research supported by IPEV (program No. 1044) and by Chilean Fondecyt Regular 1151336 and PIA CONICYT ACT172065., Australian Antarctic Division, D. Westford, J. Dell., G. Duhamel
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: sub-Antarctic islands; climate change; frontal shifts; marine reserve; benthos monitoring; thermo recorders; settlement plots; artificial reefs; habitat mapping; scientific diving; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Ecosystems; Antarctic; Îles Kerguelen; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02162628; https://hal.science/hal-02162628/document; https://hal.science/hal-02162628/file/2019_F%C3%A9ral_The%20Kerguelen%20Plateau-Marine%20ecosystem%20and%20fisheries_Lo,g-term%20monitoring%20of%20coastal%20benthic%20habitats%20in%20the%20Kerguelen%20Islands-a%20legacy%20of%20decades%20of%20marine%20biology%20research.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3249143

20 pages International audience In the current context of climate change, sea-surface temperature variation, sea level rise and latitudinal shifts of currents and hydrological fronts are expected to affect marine biodiversity of the sub-Antarctic Islands, particularly in coastal waters. Characterisi...