Biodiversity in salt marshes: from patrimonial value to ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay |
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Authors: | Lefeuvre Jean-Claude Laffaille Pascal Feunteun Eric Bouchard Virginie Radureau Alain |
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Institution: | UMR 6653 EcoBio, Equipe d'animation de la zone atelier La Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel et ses bassins versants, Université de Rennes 1, Campus Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France. |
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Abstract: | Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) were regarded as most significant of the French coasts. However, it took 20 years of research on the role of these wetlands of the estuaries-salt marsh systems to highlight the ecological, social and economic interest of this ecotone, between continental and marine systems, a long time considered as territory "without value", except for stock breeders or hunters. |
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