Borealis
Dreujou, Elliot;
Desroy, Nicolas;
Carrière, Julie;
Tréau de Coeli, Lisa;
McKindsey, Christopher W;
Archambault, Philippe
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2021-03-23
<h3>General presentation</h3>
This repository presents the R code and associated data used in the article <em>Determining the ecological status of benthic coastal communities: a case study in an anthropized sub-Arctic area</em>.<br><br>
Datasets include information about the stations sampled at Sept-Îles (Québec, Canada) in 2017. Data includes species biomass, density, taxonomy and traits of benthic macrofaunal species, with physico-chemical parameters at the sediment surface.<br><br>
The main research questions were to:
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<li>compare outcomes of various benthic environmental indicators</li>
<li>understand how these indicators relate to habitat parameters for validation and to select appropriate applications</li>
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Specific details</h3>
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<li>Variables, units and files are explained in files <strong>README.yml</strong> (this file is a basic text file formatted with a YAML language) and <strong>README.txt</strong>.</li>
<li>Language and software used for the analyses: R (4.0.3)</li>
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