%0 Journal Article %T A Comparison of Two Biotic Indices, AMBI and BOPA/BO2A, for assessing the Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) of Benthic Macro-invertebrates %+ Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante %+ Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C) %+ Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG) %A De-La-Ossa-Carretero, A. %A Dauvin, Jean-Claude %< avec comité de lecture %J Transitional Waters Bulletin %I Coordinamento SIBA %V 1 %P 12-24 %8 2010-02-10 %D 2010 %R 10.1285/i1825229Xv4n1p12 %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment %Z Environmental Sciences/Global ChangesJournal articles %X 1 - The assessment of quality status of Transitional Aquatic Ecosystems remains a challenge for the ecologists. 2 - Here, we compared the results of two common indices (AMBI - Ecological Groups and BOPA/BO2A -Taxonomic Sufficiency) from samples coming from the north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Both biotic indices rely on distinct assessments of species sensitivity/tolerance. 3 - Six studies provided the raw data that permitted AMBI and BOPA to be compared. A total 922 data element was available, most of them from the Seine estuary (78%). The database was later divided into three sub-sets: French Atlantic Transitional Waters, Mediterranean Coastal Waters and Mediterranean Lagoons. 4 - Both indices' values demonstrated a strong correlation; however, the BOPA index had a tendency to overestimate the EcoQS compared to the values obtained from AMBI index, mainly due to discrepancies between 'high' and 'good' quality. 5 - New thresholds for BOPA/BO2A index are proposed in order to reduce this overestimation. %G English %L insu-00665105 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-00665105 %~ SDE %~ INSU %~ CNRS %~ GIP-BE %~ COMUE-NORMANDIE %~ M2C %~ UNIROUEN %~ UNIV-LILLE %~ UNICAEN %~ M2C-CAEN %~ LOG