You're viewing our updated article page. If you need more time to adjust, you can return to the old layout.

CORRECTION article

Front. Mar. Sci., 18 August 2025

Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology

Volume 12 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1673739

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

    PA

    Patrick Astruch 1*

    AO

    Ameline Orts 1

    TS

    Thomas Schohn 1

    BB

    Bruno Belloni 1

    EB

    Enric Ballesteros 2

    DB

    Daniela Bănaru 3

    CN

    Carlo Nike Bianchi 4,5

    CB

    Charles-François Boudouresque 3

    TC

    Thomas Changeux 3

    PC

    Pierre Chevaldonné 6

    JH

    Jean-Georges Harmelin 1

    NM

    Noëmie Michez 7,8

    BM

    Briac Monnier 9

    CM

    Carla Morri 4,5

    TT

    Thierry Thibaut 3

    MV

    Marc Verlaque 3

    BD

    Boris Daniel 8

  • 1. Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) Posidonie, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers (OSU) Pythéas, Marseille, France

  • 2. Center for Advenced Studies of Blanes, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Blanes, Girona, Spain

  • 3. Aix 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

  • 4. Seascape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DiSTAV), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy

  • 5. Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn–National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, Genoa Marine Centre (GMC), Genova, Italy

  • 6. Institut 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

  • 7. Natural Marine Park of the Gulf of Lion, Argelès-sur-mer, France

  • 8. French Office for Biodiversity, Vincennes, France

  • 9. Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6134 Science pour l’Environnement (SPE), Corte, France

Article metrics

View details

820

Views

245

Downloads

There was a mistake in Figures 7, 8 and 9 as published. Figure 7 has two parts (left and right) but only the left part appears on the article. The right part of Figure 7 is displayed as Figure 8 instead of the actual Figure 8 and the actual Figure 8 is displayed as Figure 9 instead of the actual Figure 9. This needs to be corrected without changing figures’ captions. The corrected Figures 7, 8 and 9 appear below.

Figure 7

Two side-by-side boxplots compare four categories: MPA-NTZ, MPA-MUM, Natura 2000, and No Protection. The left plot shows EBQI notation, with MPA-NTZ and No Protection having higher values. The right plot depicts circularity, with MPA-NTZ and No Protection also showing larger values.

Box plots showing EBQI notation (left) and circularity value (right) according 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.

Figure 8

Four bar charts show iterations over samples labeled from 27TH to 21PAM. Top-left chart: 25% probability, ±1 perturbation. Top-right: 100% probability, ±1 perturbation. Bottom-left: 25% probability, ±2 perturbation. Bottom-right: 100% probability, ±2 perturbation. Bars are segmented into red, yellow, green, and blue sections indicating different categories. Each chart scales iterations from 0 to 1,000.

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.

Figure 9

Four stacked bar charts showing iterations versus categories labeled with codes. Colors red, yellow, green, and blue represent different segments. Charts compare two probabilities, 25% and 100%, with perturbations of ±1 and ±2.

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.

The original version of this article has been updated.

Statements

Publisher’s note

All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Summary

Keywords

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

Citation

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. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1673739

Received

26 July 2025

Accepted

30 July 2025

Published

18 August 2025

Approved by

Frontiers Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland

Volume

12 - 2025

Updates

Copyright

*Correspondence: Patrick Astruch,

†Deceased

Disclaimer

All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Outline

Figures

Cite article

Copy to clipboard


Export citation file


Share article

Article metrics