title: Early evaluation of coastal nutrient over-enrichment: new procedures and indicators.
abstract: Recent studies have provided compelling evidence for an accelerated anthropogenic impact on coastal systems, resulting in intense inputs of materials and nutrients from the continent. This has led scientists and policymakers to encourage the implementation of monitoring programmes, which have resulted in the multiplicity of datasets. However surprisingly, only a few attempts have been made to couple observations with statistical and mathematical tools to detect, as soon as the data become available perturbations in coastal systems. Here, we propose new mathematical procedures to evaluate the state of a system, based on the building of relative reference state and indicators of nutrient over-enrichment. The techniques were tested in some French coastal systems using data from the programme SOMLIT. Applied to this dataset, the multivariate procedures rapidly identified and evaluated anthropogenic nutrient anomalies from the continent on three sites (Wimereux, Roscoff and Villefranche-sur-Mer) from 1997 onwards.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, UMR CNRS 8187 (LOG), 28 avenue Foch, 62930 Wimereux, France. e.goberville@epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Goberville
authors.forename: Grégory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beaugrand
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sautour
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tréguer
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005602:France; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000032:analysis*; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000032:analysis*; D012016:Reference Values; D012623:Seawater / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010758:Phosphorus; D009584:Nitrogen