Oceanic controls on the primary production of the northwest European continental shelf: model experiments under recent past conditions and a potential future scenario by J. Holt, M. Butenschön, S. L. Wakelin, Y. Artioli, J. I. Allen

“…Regions less exposed to ocean-shelf exchange in this model (Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel, and Southern North Sea) show a modest increase in primary production (of 5–10%) compared with a decrease of 0–20% in the outer shelf, Central and Northern North Sea. …”
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Collaborative Deep Learning Models to Handle Class Imbalance in FlowCam Plankton Imagery by Thomas Kerr, James R. Clark, Elaine S. Fileman, Claire E. Widdicombe, Nicolas Pugeault

“…We collected live plankton from Station L4 in the Western English Channel and imaged 11,371 particles covering 104 taxonomic groups using the automated plankton imaging system FlowCam. …”
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Towards Winter Seasonal Predictability of the North West European Shelf Seas by Jonathan Tinker, Leon Hermanson

“…We find important errors in the residual circulation (particularly in the Irish Sea) that introduce temperature and salinity biases in the Irish Sea, English Channel, and southern North Sea. The GloSea5 winter skill is significant for SST across most of the NWS but is lower in the southern North Sea. …”
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Genetic analysis redraws the management boundaries for the European sprat by María Quintela, Cecilie Kvamme, Dorte Bekkevold, Richard D. M. Nash, Eeva Jansson, Anne Grete Sørvik, John B. Taggart, Øystein Skaala, Geir Dahle, Kevin A. Glover

“…Prior to 2018, annual catch advice on sprat from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) was based on five putative stocks: (a) North Sea, (b) Kattegat–Skagerrak and Norwegian fjords, (c) Baltic Sea, (d) West of Scotland—southern Celtic Seas, and (e) English Channel. However, there were concerns that the sprat advice on stock size estimates management plan inadequately reflected the underlying biological units. …”
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Neogene and Pleistocene geodynamics: the paleoseismic evolution of Armorica (Western France) by Brigitte Van Vliet-Lanoë, Christine Authemayou, Pascal Le Roy, John C. Renouf, Philippe Combes, Frederic Ego

“…The South Armorican domain and English Channel floor include shear zones that adjusted the Alpine convergence, facilitating its transpressive slip to the west. …”
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The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Environmental Pressures on European Eel Abundances in French Estuaries by Jérémy Denis, Mario Lepage, Marie-Christine Gruselle, Rachid Amara

“…European eels were collected with fyke nets from spring to autumn in twenty-nine estuaries along the French English Channel and the Atlantic coast. Eel abundance (catch per unit effort, CPUE) was assessed for all eels and by size class for small (total length < 300 mm), intermediate (≥300 to <450 mm), and large (≥450 mm) eels. …”
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Do settlement dynamics influence competitive interactions between an alien tunicate and its native congener? by Sarah Bouchemousse, Laurent Lévêque, Frédérique Viard

“…We examined the settlement dynamics and settlement rate of two important members of the fouling community that are common on human‐made infrastructures around the world: Ciona robusta (formerly known as Ciona intestinalis type A) and C. intestinalis (formerly known as C. intestinalis type B). In the western English Channel, the two species live in close syntopy following the recent introduction of C. robusta in the native European range of C. intestinalis. …”
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Multiple SNP markers reveal fine-scale population and deep phylogeographic structure in European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus L.). by Iratxe Zarraonaindia, Mikel Iriondo, Aitor Albaina, Miguel Angel Pardo, Carmen Manzano, W Stewart Grant, Xabier Irigoien, Andone Estonba

“…In addition, a new North Sea-English Channel stock is defined. SNPs indicate that some populations in the Bay of Biscay are genetically closer to North Western (NW) Mediterranean populations than to other populations in the NE Atlantic, likely due to colonizations of the Bay of Biscay and NW Mediterranean by migrants from a common ancestral population. …”
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The Efficiency of a Fence of Tidal Turbines in the Alderney Race: Comparison between Analytical and Numerical Models by Jérôme Thiébot, Nasteho Djama Dirieh, Sylvain Guillou, Nicolas Guillou

“…The comparison is applied to the deployment of a fence of turbines in the Alderney Race (macro-tidal conditions of the English Channel, northwest European shelf). Efficiency estimates are found to vary significantly from one model to another. …”
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Role of estuarine habitats for the feeding ecology of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.). by Jérémy Denis, Khalef Rabhi, François Le Loc'h, Frida Ben Rais Lasram, Kévin Boutin, Maria Kazour, Mamadou Diop, Marie-Christine Gruselle, Rachid Amara

“…The diet and stable isotopic (i.e. δ15N and δ13C values) compositions of eels collected with a fyke net in six estuaries (Slack, Wimereux, Liane, Canche, Authie and Somme estuaries) located along the French coast of the eastern English Channel per season over a year were described by combining gut content and stable isotope analyses. …”
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Taxonomic implications of describing a new species of Loimia (Annelida, Terebellidae) with two size-dependent morphotypes by Daniel Martin, Maria Capa, Alejandro Martínez, Ana Cristina Costa

“…It resembles Loimia gigantea (Montagu, 1819) (English Channel) in having very large adults, the ventral shield shape and the types of capillary notochaetae (three), while differing in shape and colour of the lateral lappets, branchiae length, the arrangement of segments, ventral shields, uncini and pygidial papillae. …”
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Spatial dynamics and expanded vertical niche of blue sharks in oceanographic fronts reveal habitat targets for conservation. by Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E Humphries, Leslie R Noble, António M Santos, David W Sims

“…Overall, blue sharks moved south-west of tagging sites (English Channel; southern Portugal), exhibiting pronounced site fidelity correlated with localized productive frontal areas, with estimated space-use patterns being significantly different from that of random walks. …”
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A Trait-Based Clustering for Phytoplankton Biomass Modeling and Prediction by Crispin M. Mutshinda, Zoe V. Finkel, Claire E. Widdicombe, Andrew J. Irwin

“…We parameterize a Bayesian model of biomass dynamics and analyze long-term phytoplankton data collected at Station L4 in the Western English Channel between April 2003 and December 2009. …”
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Metazoan parasite community as a potential biological indicator in juveniles of the starry smooth-hound Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1819 (Carcharhiniformes Triakidae) by Gérard Claudia, Hervé Maxime R., Hamel Héloïse, Gay Mélanie, Barbier Michel, Barreau Thomas

“…We studied metazoan parasites of 20 immature sharks (13 males and seven females) from the English Channel and we examined their relationships with host condition and their use as host bioindicators. …”
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Environmental DNA captures elasmobranch diversity in a temperate marine ecosystem by Zifang Liu, Rupert A. Collins, Charles Baillie, Sophie Rainbird, Rachel Brittain, Andrew M. Griffiths, David W. Sims, Stefano Mariani, Martin J. Genner

“…Here, we studied spatial and seasonal variation in the elasmobranch community of the Western English Channel using environmental DNA (eDNA) collected from surface and bottom waters periodically over an annual cycle (2017–2018). …”
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Stochastic and Deterministic Processes Regulate Phytoplankton Assemblages in a Temperate Coastal Ecosystem by Dimitra-Ioli Skouroliakou, Elsa Breton, Solène Irion, Luis Felipe Artigas, Urania Christaki

“…This hypothesis was explored during a 5-year survey (287 samples) conducted at a small spatial scale (~15km) in a temperate coastal ecosystem (eastern English Channel). Microscopy and flow cytometry quantified phytoplankton abundance and biomass, while metabarcoding data allowed an extended evaluation of diversity and the exploration of the ecological processes regulating phytoplankton using null model analysis. …”
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Northern Europe’s suitability for offshore European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) habitat restoration based on population dynamics by Brecht Stechele, Leo Barbut, Geneviève Lacroix, Luca A. van Duren, Vera Van Lancker, Steven Degraer, Giacomo Montereale Gavazzi, Peter Bossier, Annelies M. Declercq, Nancy Nevejan

“…By applying this model to the English Channel and the North Sea over a ten-year period, suitable locations for flat oyster habitat restoration, restorative aquaculture, or oyster-related nature-inclusive designs can be identified. …”
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A 3-year time series of volatile organic iodocarbons in Bedford Basin, Nova Scotia: a northwestern Atlantic fjord by Q. Shi, D. Wallace

“…Near-surface net production of CH₃I averaged 1&thinsp;pmol&thinsp;L⁻¹&thinsp;day⁻¹ and was similar to rates in the English Channel but an order of magnitude higher than in shallow waters of the Kiel Fjord, Germany, possibly due to higher microbial degradation in the latter. …”
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Spatial structure of in situ reflectance in coastal and inland waters: implications for satellite validation by Thomas M. Jordan, Stefan G. H. Simis, Nick Selmes, Giulia Sent, Federico Ienna, Victor Martinez-Vicente

“…Here, using high-frequency autonomous mobile radiometers deployed on ships, we characterize the spatial structure of in situRrs in inland and coastal waters (Lake Balaton, Western English Channel, Tagus Estuary). Using variogram analysis, we partition Rrs variability into spatial and intrinsic (non-spatial) components. …”
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From the modeling of diadromous species’ marine distributions to the characterization of their current and future marine habitats by Clara Navarro, Anais Janc, Géraldine Lassalle, Géraldine Lassalle, Patrick Lambert, Patrick Lambert, Chloé Dambrine

“…We applied this approach to study the current and future marine habitats of Allis shad and European flounder under climate change scenarios.ResultsThe main current marine habitats of these species were coastal, primarily in the Bay of Biscay for Allis shad and in the English Channel-North Sea for European flounder. These habitats are expected to experience minimal changes by mid-century, and the species may even benefit from new habitats at higher latitudes. …”
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