Borealis
Dreujou, Elliot;
Christopher W McKindsey;
Cindy Grant;
Lisa Tréau de Coeli;
Richard St-Louis;
Philippe Archambault
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2020-08-27
<h3>General presentation</h3>
This repository present the R codes ans associated data used in the article <em>Biodiversity and habitat assessment of coastal benthic communities in a sub-Arctic industrial harbour area</em>.<br><br>
Datasets include sampling information about the stations in Sept-Îles (Québec, Canada) sampled during three campaigns (2014, 2016, and 2017). Data includes density and taxonomy of benthic invertebrate species, with physico-chemical parameters and heavy metal concentrations at the surface of the sediment.<br><br>
The main research questions were to:
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<li>describe coastal habitats and macrobenthic communities at Sept-Îles, in order to provide the first benthic ecological survey of the area</li>
<li>evaluate the links between communities and abiotic variables (including heavy metals)</li>
<li>detect the presence of similar benthic assemblages, along with their relationships with habitats</li>
<li>evaluate how macrofaunal size range will influence community descriptions and relationships with habitat parameters</li>
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<h3>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 (4.0.2), PRIMER-E (6)</li>
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