BOUDOURESQUE , Charles-François

The Virginia oil spill (October 2018) was a minor one: 600 m³ of fuel released. Oil was washed up on the coasts of Provence (France). Apart from the core area of the Port-Cros National Park, thanks to the timely intervention of its Scientific Council and its director, the rest of the area was extensively and disproportionately cleaned up, which...

Connectivity of populations of the seaweed Cystoseira amentacea within the Bay of Marseille (Mediterranean Sea): genetic structure and hydrodynamic connections

For almost 60 years, the management policy of the Port-Cros National Park (PCNP) has steadily progressed, in phase with human impacts, changes in doctrines and goals in the field of nature conservation, what was socially acceptable at a given time, a very active Scientific Council and a gradual shift from species-centered to ecosystem-based...

Biodiversity is often defined erroneously as the number of species. The higher the number of species, the better the status or the health of a habitat is considered to be. Managers, stakeholders and environmentalists worldwide often prioritize the 'species approach'. The protection of an iconic and endearing species is obviously easier than...

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Coralligenous outcrops are a Mediterranean sciaphilic habitat whose three-dimensionally layered communities develop on a basal biogenic concretion of calcareous red algae, along with a rich assemblage of sciaphilic sessile animals. The complexity of the evaluation of the ecological status of coralligenous is on a par with the complexity of this...