# Correction: Ecosystem-based assessment of a widespread Mediterranean marine habitat: The Coastal Detrital Bottoms, with a special focus on epibenthic assemblages

Patrick Astruch, Ameline Orts, Thomas Schohn, Bruno Belloni, Enric Ballesteros, Daniela Bănaru, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Charles-François Boudouresque, Thomas Changeux, Pierre Chevaldonné, et al.

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Patrick Astruch, Ameline Orts, Thomas Schohn, Bruno Belloni, Enric Ballesteros, et al. Correction: Ecosystem-based assessment of a widespread Mediterranean marine habitat: The Coastal Detrital Bottoms, with a special focus on epibenthic assemblages. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2025, 12, pp.1673739. 10.3389/fmars.2025.1673739. hal-05308288

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Astruch P, Orts A, Schohn T, Belloni B, Ballesteros E, Bănaru D, Bianchi CN, Boudouresque C-F, Changeux T, Chevaldonné P, Harmelin J-G, Michez N, Monnier B, Morri C, Thibaut T, Verlaque M and Daniel B (2025) Correction: Ecosystem-based assessment of a widespread Mediterranean marine habitat: The Coastal Detrital Bottoms, with a special focus on epibenthic assemblages.
*Front. Mar. Sci.* **12**:1673739.
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# Correction: Ecosystem-based assessment of a widespread Mediterranean marine habitat: The Coastal Detrital Bottoms, with a special focus on epibenthic assemblages

Patrick Astruch<fnref n="1" />*, Ameline Orts<fnref n="1" />, Thomas Schohn<fnref n="1" />,
Bruno Belloni<fnref n="1" />, Enric Ballesteros², Daniela Bănaru³,
Carlo Nike Bianchi⁴,⁵, Charles-François Boudouresque³,
Thomas Changeux³, Pierre Chevaldonné⁶,
Jean-Georges Harmelin<fnref n="1" />, Noëmie Michez⁷,⁸, Briac Monnier⁹,
Carla Morri⁴,⁵, Thierry Thibaut³, Marc Verlaque³
and Boris Daniel⁸†

KEYWORDS

coastal detrital bottoms, ecosystem-based approach (EBA), quality assessment, marine habitat, rhodolith beds, epibenthic assemblages

A Correction on

Ecosystem-based assessment of a widespread Mediterranean marine habitat: The Coastal Detrital Bottoms, with a special focus on epibenthic assemblages

By Astruch P, Orts A, Schohn T, Belloni B, Ballesteros E, Bănaru D, Bianchi CN, Boudouresque C-F, Changeux T, Chevaldonné P, Harmelin J-G, Michez N, Monnier B, Morri C, Thibaut T, Verlaque M and Daniel B (2023) *Front. Mar. Sci.* **10**:1130540. doi: **10.3389/fmars.2023.1130540**

<footnote n="1">¹Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) Posidonie, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers (OSU) Pythéas, Marseille, France, ²Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Blanes, Girona, Spain, ³Aix Marseille University, Université de Toulon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Marseille, France, ⁴Seascape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DiSTAV), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy, ⁵Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn-National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, Genoa Marine Centre (GMC), Genova, Italy, ⁶Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Aix-Marseille University, Avignon University, Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, France, ⁷Natural Marine Park of the Gulf of Lion, Argelès-sur-Mer, France, ⁸French Office for Biodiversity, Vincennes, France, ⁹Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6134 Science pour l'Environnement (SPE), Corte, France</footnote>
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Box plots showing EBQI notation (left) and circularity value (right) according to management level. The black crossbar corresponds to the mean EBQI notation, the grey rectangle corresponds to the standard error, the vertical bars correspond to the 95% confidence interval.

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Robustness of the EBQI with regard to the Ecological status per box. Sampling sites (x-axis) are sorted in ascending order according to the EBQI notation from left to right. In order to test the effect of the status per box on the EBQI (robustness), status values have been randomly perturbed (above, ± 1; below, ± 2) 25% (left) and 100% (right) of probability; 1000 iterations were performed. The change of the EBQI notation (Bad through Very Good) of a site, for a given iteration, is shown by the colour of the new class in which it falls). Red: Poor; Yellow: Bad; Green: Intermediate; Blue: Good; Dark Blue: Very Good.
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Robustness of the EBQI with regard to the weighting per box. Sampling sites (x-axis) are sorted in ascending order according to the EBQI notation from left to right. In order to test the effect of the weighting per box on the EBQI (robustness), status values have been randomly perturbed (above, ± 1; below, ± 2) 25% (left) and 100% (right) of probability; 1000 iterations were performed. The change of the EBQI notation (Bad through Very Good) of a site, for a given iteration, is shown by the colour of the new class within which it falls. Red: Poor; Yellow: Bad; Green: Intermediate; Blue: Good; Dark Blue: Very Good.