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Monitoring the impacts of marine aggregate extraction : knowledge synthesis 2012 (GIS SIEGMA) / coordinated by Michel Desprez and Robert Lafite ; English translation by Marie Gspann, University of Rouen ; authors, Michel Desprez [and five others] ; contributors, David Claveleau [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robert Lafite
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ocean mining--Environmental aspects--France.
- Ocean mining.
- Marine sediments--Environmental aspects--France.
- Marine sediments.
- Aggregate industry--Environmental aspects--France.
- Aggregate industry.
- France--Ocean mining--Environmental aspects.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (44 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 2014
- [Mont-Saint-Aignan, France] : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This document is a comprehensive survey of the scientific knowledge acquired in late 2012 on the environmental impacts of marine aggregate extraction. The synthesis completes international knowledge (ICES WGEXT, COST Action 638 "MAGGNET") with local investigation in Normandy on two sites of the Eastern English Channel in the framework of the 2003-2011 SIEGMA programme.
- Contents:
- ""Issues at stake""; ""International scientific context""; ""GIS SIEGMA: objectives and study sites""; ""Level of knowledge""; ""Extraction pressure""; ""Physical impacts""; ""Effects on the coastline""; ""Effects on the water column""; ""Effects on topography and seabed sediments""; ""Restoration of topography and seabed sediments""; ""Biological Impacts""; ""Effects on benthos""; ""Recolonization of benthic communities""; ""Effects on fish""; ""Recovery of the fish communities""; ""Effects on the trophic relationships between benthos and fish""
- ""Modelling of the Eastern English Channel's food web""""Effects on habitats and biodiversity""; ""Dissemination of marine aggregate extraction issues to the public""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prospects""; ""Bibliography""; ""Glossary""; ""Table of contents""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2015).
- OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
- ISBN:
- 979-1-02-401052-6
- 979-1-02-400112-8
- OCLC:
- 922475260
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