@article{fdi:010059007,
  title = {{S}pecies-area relationships as a tool for the conservation of benthic invertebrates in {I}talian coastal lagoons},
  author = {{G}uilhaumon, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {B}asset, {A}. and {B}arbone, {E}. and {M}ouillot, {D}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{O}ver the recent decades, the preservation of coastal and estuarine waters has been recognised as a priority at national and international levels. {A}t the {E}uropean scale, the {W}ater {F}ramework {D}irective ({WFD}) was established with the aim to achieve a good ecological status of all significant water bodies by the year 2015. {A}mong the descriptors used to define the ecological status of water bodies, taxonomic diversity (usually species richness) is a widespread metric employed across taxa and habitats. {H}owever, species richness is known to increase with area at a decelerating rate, producing the species area relationship ({SAR}). {T}hus, removing the effect of area (even in case of low magnitude), is mandatory before comparing species richness between sites. {H}ere we tested recently developed multi-model {SAR}s as a standardisation tool for comparing benthic species richness (annelids, arthropods, molluscs and total species richness) in 18 {I}talian coastal lagoons with a surface area ranging from 0.19 to 552 km(2), i.e. three orders of magnitude. {H}owever, the sampling effort was often incompletely described and certainly heterogeneous among the studies retrieved from the database. {T}herefore, we used the number of studies as a proxy for the sampling effort in each lagoon and estimated species richness from observed values using non-parametric occurrence-based estimators. {W}e further corrected for bias that might be induced by sampling efforts being unrepresentative for the surface area of different lagoons. {A}fter applying these corrections, we estimated that c. 25-30% of species richness could be explained by surface area. {W}e investigated the spatial congruence of species richness patterns across taxa and showed that molluscs could serve as a potential surrogate for total macro-invertebrate species richness. {W}e further found that the intensity of conservation focus and the gradient of ecological status are decoupled in {I}talian coastal lagoons. {M}ore generally, our study pave the way for the use of flexible tools for the comparison of species richness across water bodies in the context of the {WFD}.},
  keywords = {conservation biology ; model selection ; non-parametric richness ; estimators ; transitional waters ; {W}ater {F}ramework {D}irective ; zoobenthos ; {ITALIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}stuarine {C}oastal and {S}helf {S}cience},
  volume = {114},
  numero = {{SI}},
  pages = {50--58},
  ISSN = {0272-7714},
  year = {2012},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.ecss.2011.12.001},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010059007},
}