Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change
Camilla Liénart,Alan Fournioux,Andrius Garbaras,Hugues Blanchet,Nicolas Briant,Stanislas F. Dubois,Aline Gangnery,Anne Grouhel Pellouin,Pauline Le Monier,Arnaud Lheureux,Xavier de Montaudouin,and Nicolas Savoye
Bivalves such as mussels and oysters reflect the quality of the environment by filtering ambient water. We measured carbon and nitrogen chemical composition in bivalve tissues from 33 sites along French coastlines sampled since the 1980s. Thanks to such time series, this dataset allows us to track how marine species record changing climate, physical–chemical environment, and organic matter cycles and provide precious information on the coastal ecosystem response to global change.
Bivalves such as mussels and oysters reflect the quality of the environment by filtering ambient...