Metabolomics-derived marker metabolites to characterize Phaeocystis pouchetii physiology in natural plankton communities by Constanze Kuhlisch, Julia Althammer, Andrey F. Sazhin, Hans H. Jakobsen, Jens C. Nejstgaard, Georg Pohnert

“…Abstract Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim, 1893 regularly dominates phytoplankton blooms in higher latitudes spanning from the English Channel to the Arctic. Through zooplankton grazing and microbial activity, it is considered to be a key resource for the entire marine food web, but the actual relevance of biomass transfer to higher trophic levels is still under discussion. …”
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Response of core microbial consortia to hydrocarbon contaminations in coastal sediment habitats by Mathilde Jeanbille, Jérôme Gury, Robert Duran, Jacek Tronczynski, Hélène Agogué, Olfa Ben Saïd, Olfa Ben Saïd, Jean-François Ghiglione, Jean-Christophe Auguet

“…Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya) using 454 pyrosequencing data of the 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA genes from chronically impacted and pristine sediments, along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion, Vermillion coast, Corsica, Bizerte lagoon and Lebanon) and the French Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay and English Channel). Our approach provided a robust ecological framework for the partition of the taxa abundance distribution into 859 core OTUs and 6629 satellite OTUs. …”
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Assessing the Performance and Application of Operational Lagrangian Transport HAB Forecasting Systems by Michael Bedington, Luz María García-García, Marc Sourisseau, Manuel Ruiz-Villarreal

“…Hindcast and forecast simulations have been run in examples of high biomass blooms detected in satellite imagery; in the western English Channel, several events of potentially toxic species like Karenia mikimotoi and Prorocentrum cordatum (minimum) were simulated and in Western France a bloom of Mesodinium rubrum, prey of the toxic Dinophysis spp. …”
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Experimental studies on particle emissions from cruising ship, their characteristic properties, transformation and atmospheric lifetime in the marine boundary layer by A. Petzold, J. Hasselbach, P. Lauer, R. Baumann, K. Franke, C. Gurk, H. Schlager, E. Weingartner

“…The emission studies were complemented by airborne aerosol transformation studies in the plume of a large container ship in the English Channel using the DLR aircraft Falcon 20 E-5. …”
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Sports Teaching, Traditional Games, and Understanding in Physical Education: A Tale of Two Stories by Raúl Martínez-Santos, María Pilar Founaud, Astrid Aracama, Asier Oiarbide

“…Pierre Parlebas, from the French side of the English Channel, claimed in 1967 that sports make part of PE, that team sports must be considered from a specific, sociomotor point of view, and that motor conducts (i.e., the significative organisation of motor behaviour), not sports techniques, are the corner-stone of PE and sports coaching. …”
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Tide gauge records show that the 18.61‐year nodal tidal cycle can change high water levels by up to 30 cm by Peng, Dongju, Hill, Emma M., Meltzner, Aron J., Switzer, Adam D.

“…Our results show that the influence of the lunar nodal cycle on high water levels is largest at tide gauge stations located in the Gulf of Tonkin, English Channel, and Bristol Channel, amounting up to 30 cm in range, suggesting that in the coming decades the impact of the nodal cycle on high water levels in those regions could be greater than that of global mean sea level rise, which is up to 17 cm by 2030, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fifth assessment report projections. …”
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Ship collision risk assessment: a multi-criteria decision-making framework based on Dempster–Shafer evidence theory by Wang, Nanxi, Yuen, Kum Fai, Yuan, Jun, Li, Duowei

“…Finally, based on the collected AIS data, the proposed framework has been applied to six of the world's busiest waterways: (1) the Strait of Malacca, (2) the English Channel, (3) the Panama Canal, (4) the Suez Canal, (5) the Danish Straits, and (6) the Strait of Hormuz. …”
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Modeling the evolution of aerosol particles in a ship plume using PartMC-MOSAIC by J. Tian, N. Riemer, M. West, L. Pfaffenberger, H. Schlager, A. Petzold

“…Comparisons of our results with observations from the QUANTIFY (Quantifying the Climate Impact of Global and European Transport Systems) study in 2007 in the English Channel and the Gulf of Biscay showed that the model was able to reproduce the observed evolution of total number concentration and the vanishing of the nucleation mode consisting of sulfate particles. …”
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Total Water Column Analysis Shows the Importance of a Single Species in Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum Thin Layers in Stratified Waters by Michelle L. Barnett, Alan E. S. Kemp, W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith, Duncan A. Purdie

“…To address this, we targeted the summer stratified waters of the Western English Channel, part of the NW European shelf seas, where SCM are commonly developed. …”
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Long-read viral metagenomics captures abundant and microdiverse viral populations and their niche-defining genomic islands by Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, Natalie Solonenko, Karen Moore, Lauren Chittick, Ann C. Gregory, Michael J. Allen, Matthew B. Sullivan, Ben Temperton

“…We then then applied VirION to the first metagenome from a natural viral community from the Western English Channel. In comparison to a short-read only approach, VirION: (i) increased number and completeness of assembled viral genomes; (ii) captured abundant, highly microdiverse virus populations, and (iii) captured more and longer genomic islands. …”
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Versatile Modelling of Extreme Surges in Connection with Large-Scale Circulation Drivers by Lisa Baulon, Emma Imen Turki, Nicolas Massei, Gaël André, Yann Ferret, Nicolas Pouvreau

“…This shows that the physical climate effects at multi-annual scales are manifested differently between the Atlantic/English Channel and the North Sea regions influenced by NAO and SCAND, respectively. …”
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Detection of fishing pressure using ecological network indicators derived from ecosystem models by Maysa Ito, Ghassen Halouani, Pierre Cresson, Carolina Giraldo, Raphaël Girardin

“…These indicators were computed using two ecosystem models applied to the Eastern English Channel (i.e. Atlantis and OSMOSE). This work aimed at investigating how several ecological network indicators respond to different levels of fishing pressure and evaluating their robustness to model structure and fishing strategies. …”
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Underwater light climate and wavelength dependence of microalgae photosynthetic parameters in a temperate sea by Monica Michel-Rodriguez, Sebastien Lefebvre, Muriel Crouvoisier, Xavier Mériaux, Fabrice Lizon

“…A wavelength-dependent photoacclimation strategy was assessed using a multi-color pulse-amplitude-modulation chlorophyll fluorometer for phytoplankton samples collected in the spring at 19 locations across the English Channel. The functional absorption cross section of photosystem II, photosynthetic electron transport (PETλ) parameters and non-photochemical quenching were analyzed using an original approach with a sequence of three statistical analyses. …”
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Resilience of the Copepod Oithona similis to Climatic Variability: Egg Production, Mortality, and Vertical Habitat Partitioning by Louise Elisabeth Cornwell, Elaine S. Fileman, John T. Bruun, John T. Bruun, Andrew Garwood Hirst, Andrew Garwood Hirst, Glen Adam Tarran, Helen S. Findlay, Ceri Lewis, Timothy James Smyth, A. J. McEvoy, A. Atkinson

“…Reasons for these declines are unclear, and several major species, including the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis, have maintained stable populations at station L4 in the western English Channel. To identify the factors contributing to this stability, we conducted a 1-year intensive study of O. similis at L4 over 2017–2018, a period of high climatic variability. …”
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A solution for autonomous, adaptive monitoring of coastal ocean ecosystems: Integrating ocean robots and operational forecasts by David A. Ford, Shenan Grossberg, Gianmario Rinaldi, Prathyush P. Menon, Matthew R. Palmer, Matthew R. Palmer, Jozef Skákala, Jozef Skákala, Tim Smyth, Charlotte A. J. Williams, Alvaro Lorenzo Lopez, Stefano Ciavatta, Stefano Ciavatta, Stefano Ciavatta

“…An autonomous ocean robot (an ocean glider) was deployed for 11 weeks in the western English Channel and navigated by exchanging information with operational forecasting models. …”
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Sensitivity model study of regional mercury dispersion in the atmosphere by C. N. Gencarelli, J. Bieser, F. Carbone, F. De Simone, I. M. Hedgecock, V. Matthias, O. Travnikov, X. Yang, N. Pirrone

“…The areas most sensitive to changes in Hg emission speciation and the emission vertical distribution are those near major sources, but also the Aegean and the Black seas, the English Channel, the Skagerrak Strait and the northern German coast. …”
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A Quantitative Histologic Analysis of Oogenesis in the Flatfish Species <i>Pleuronectes platessa</i> as a Tool for Fisheries Management by Carine Sauger, Jérôme Quinquis, Clothilde Berthelin, Mélanie Lepoittevin, Nicolas Elie, Laurent Dubroca, Kristell Kellner

“…Quantitative histology (stereology) on histological slides was used to determine a first size at maturity for females from the English Channel, which was found to be smaller compared to the literature (19 cm). …”
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The influence of tides on the North West European shelf winter residual circulation by Jonathan Tinker, Jeff A. Polton, Peter E. Robins, Matthew J. Lewis, Clare K. O’Neill

“…Furthermore, we show that modelling the NWS without tides leads to a cold fresh bias in the Celtic Sea and English Channel (of &gt;0.5°C, and &gt;0.5 psu). This shows that NWS tidal dynamics are essential in the transport of heat and matter, and so must be included in GCMs. …”
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Iodide, iodate & dissolved organic iodine in the temperate coastal ocean by Matthew R. Jones, Rosie Chance, Thomas Bell, Oban Jones, David C. Loades, Rebecca May, Liselotte Tinel, Katherine Weddell, Claire Widdicombe, Lucy J. Carpenter

“…Here we show a near two-year time series of the primary iodine species, iodide, iodate and dissolved organic iodine (DOI) in inner shelf marine surface waters of the Western English Channel (UK). The median ± standard deviation concentrations between November 2019 and September 2021 (n=76) were: iodide 88 ± 17 nM (range 61-149 nM), iodate 293 ± 28 nM (198-382 nM), DOI 16 ± 16 nM (&lt;0.12-75 nM) and total dissolved iodine (dIT) 399 ± 30 nM (314-477 nM). …”
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Estimation of the Potential Detection of Diatom Assemblages Based on Ocean Color Radiance Anomalies in the North Sea by Anne-Hélène Rêve-Lamarche, Séverine Alvain, Marie-Fanny Racault, David Dessailly, Natacha Guiselin, Cédric Jamet, Vincent Vantrepotte, Grégory Beaugrand

“…Thus, to evaluate the potential of PHYSAT for the detection of phytoplankton assemblages, we took advantage of the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, collected in both the English Channel and the North Sea. The available CPR dataset contains information on diatom abundance in two large areas of the North Sea for the period 1998-2010. …”
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