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Replication Data for: A seascape approach for guiding effective habitat enhancement: Spatially explicit modeling of kelp-grazer interactions
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Ferrario, Filippo — 2021-10-05 The study investigated if seascape heterogeneity creates areas of lower grazing risk (i.e. refugia from green sea urchin Strognylochentrotus droebachiensis) for kelp transplanted onto artificial reef modules and characterized the properties that define them. An area of heterogeneous bottom (mix of hard and soft substrate) of 256 meter square at a depth of 10 meter was identified and delimited using 4 permanent reference transects defining a grid of 64 2x2 meters cells. Each cell was divided in 4 equal parcels (i.e. total of 256 parcels). One individual plant of kelp Alaria esculenta was transplanted on each of 18 cement blocks randomly deployed in the grid. The survival of kelp was followed at different times between August and October 2015. The study area was mapped to describe the bottom composition of eac parcel at the beginning of the study, while biological variable were mapped at each kelp survival follow-up time. A kelp frame was deployed nearby the studi site to control for kelp mortality related to transplantation techniques. The study was conducted in the late summer 2015 at Baie-du-petit-Métis (48°40'37.30" N, 68° 0'41.24" W; Québec, Canada). Please refer to the paper for further information on methods.
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Data for: Ecosystem-Based Quality Index at the bay scale: assessing the status of a heterogeneous system in a functional framework.
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Ferrario, Filippo; Archambault, Philippe; Johnson, Ladd Erik; McKindsey, Christopher W. — 2021-10-06 This dataset provides scripts and data used to produce the study "Ecosystem-Based Quality Index at the bay scale: assessing the status of a heterogeneous system in a functional framework." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108260 . The Ecosystem-Based Quality Index (EBQI), developed for the Mediterranean Sea, may be adaptable to other ecosystems due to its functional approach being closer to a methodological framework than a specialized index. This work implement the shGSL-EBQI (shallow heterogeneous Gulf of St. Lawrence-EBQI) Data provided here include: - field data on macro-epibenthic invertebrates, algal community, infauna, bioturbation, Organic matter and photosynthetic pigments content in sediment in the Baie des Sept Îles (Québec, Canada). - potential environmental and anthropogenic drivers in the area - Scoring criteria, box scores, weighting schemes and model description datasets used to caculate the shGSL-EBQI. Methodological Information: - Macro epibentic Invertebrates, Macroalgal and Bioturbation data have been ectracted from georeferenced photomosaics realized using underwater imagery acquired by Filippo Ferrario using SCUBA (see paper for details). Data have been gathered in 2018 in the Bay of Sept-Îles (Québec, Canada) - Organic matter and Photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll-a and pheopigments) were quantified from sediment collected in SCUBA (see paper for details). Data have been gathered in 2018 in the Bay of Sept-Îles (Québec, Canada) - Fishery data have been provided by David Beauchesne (CHONe). More information on data can be found in: Beauchesne et al 2020 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00383) - Infauna data have been provided by Elliot Dreujou (CHONe). More information on data can be found in: Dreujou et al 2020 (https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092424).
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Data for: A Scan of Environmental Monitoring in Top Ports Around the Globe
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Ferrario, Filippo — 2021-10-13 This dataset contains the data and the R script of the analyses supporting the report "A Scan of Environmental Monitoring in Top Ports Around the Globe" published as a Technical Report of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The report provides an annotated scan of existing environmental monitoring activities occurring in selected Canadian and international ports.

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