2018 articles thus far ...

EBLab authors have contributed to a number of articles appearing this year already. So many that we haven’t had time to promote many of them properly! Here is a quick list of our most recent scientific publications:

Environmental impact assessment

Wilson, J., Hinz, S., Coston-Guarini, J., Mazé, C., Guarini, J.-M. and Chauvaud, L. 2017. System Based Assessments – improving the confidence in the EIA process. Environments. v. 4(4) 95; doi:10.3390/environments4040095

This is the companion article to the earlier Coston-Guarini et al. 2017 on our system-based EIA approach where we elaborate further on the changes we envision for the EIA process. See here for a summary.

Ragueneau, O., Raimonet, M., Mazé, C., Coston-Guarini, J., Danto, A., Chauvaud, L., Grall, J., Jean, F., Paulet, Y.-M., and Thouzeau, G. 2018. The impossible sustainability of the Bay of Brest? 40 years of ecosystem evolution, interdisciplinary knowledge construction and key questions at the science-policy-communities interface.  Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 124. doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00124.

This uniquely interdisciplinary article considers the complex social processes underlying  the construction of scientific knowledge on environmental issues over a period of several decades. 

Mazé, C., Guarini, J., Danto, A. and Ragueneau, O. 2019. Ocean governance in the Anthropocene: An interdisciplinary and multi-site ethnography of Impact Assessment, Nature Science Societé. v. 27(1) : In press.

In this second interdisciplinary article, we discuss the ideas underpinning an important CNRS research initiative led by ApoliMer on the roles impact assessment has in the governance of different marine areas. 

BehaviouraL, HIStORICAL Ecology

Charles, F., Coston-Guarini, J., Guarini, J.-M., and Lantoine, F. 2018. It’s what’s inside that counts: computer aided tomography for evaluating the rate and extent of wood consumption by shipworms. J of Wood Science, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s10086-018-1716-x. 

This article is the second report (the first one is described here) on the results of a long-term experiment about the colonization and degradation of wood by "shipworms" in the Mediterranean Sea.  

Jézéquel, Y., Bonnel, J., Coston-Guarini, J., Guarini, J.-M., and Chauvaud, L. 2018. Sound characterization of the European lobster Homarus gammarus (L.). Aquatic Biology, 27, 13-23. doi:10.3354/ab00692. [Feature Article].

See here for more details about this research.

Coston-Guarini, J., Guarini, J-M, Boehm, F.R., Kerkhove, T.R.H., Rivera, F.C., Erzini, K., Charles, F., Deprez, T., and Chauvaud, L. 2018. Estimating Muricid abundances from trapping methods used in Mediterranean Tyrian Purple industry. Marine Ecology, 10.1111/maec.12509

A novel analysis of baited trap catches turns them into a means to estimate local population densities of neogastropod species that are fished but whose populations are rarely quantified. Some additional background on the context of this research is given here.


Photo: A view of the tip of St. Pierre Island from the small museum-island of Ile aux Marins near the port entrance. 2017. J. Coston-Guarini.