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Contents
Part II Towards Landscape Ecology Applied to the Marine Area
10 The Concept of Marine Landscapes Within the French
Information System on Nature and Landscapes (SINP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Amelia Curd and Alain Pibot
11 Management of Infralittoral Habitats:
Towards a Seascape Scale Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Adrien Cheminée, Eric Feunteun, Samuel Clerici, Bertrand Cousin
and Patrice Francour
12 How 3D Complexity of Macrophyte-Formed Habitats Affect
the Processes Structuring Fish Assemblages Within Coastal
Temperate Seascapes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Pierre Thiriet, Adrien Cheminée, Luisa Mangialajo and Patrice Francour
13 Can We use a Landscape Approach to Assess Natural
and Anthropogenic Perturbations of the Rocky Shore Ecosystems?. . . 201
Christian Hily and Maud Bernard
Part III Tools, Methods and Instruments for Monitoring and Modelling
Underwater Seascapes
14 Underwater Multimodal Survey: Merging Optical
and Acoustic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Pierre Drap, Djamal Merad, Jean-Marc Bo¨ ı, Amine Mahiddine,
Daniela Peloso, Bertrand Chemisky, Emmanuelle Seguin,
Frederic Alcala and Olivier Bianchimani
15 Application of the Multi-sensor Fusion Method for Underwater
Landscape Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Claire Noël Christophe Viala, Michel Coquet, Simon Marchetti
and Eric Bauer
16 Reefscape Ecology Within the South Pacific: Confluence
of the Polynesia Mana Network and Very High Resolution Satellite
Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Antoine Collin, Yannick Chancerelle and Robin Pouteau
17 Seascape Integrity Assessment: A Proposed Index
for the Mediterranean Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sébastien Thorin, Pascaline Bodilis, Thibault Schvartz, Eric Dutrieux
and Patrice Francour
18 The Seascape as an Indicator of Environmental Interest
and Quality of the Mediterranean Benthos: The in Situ Development
of a Description Index: The LIMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Sylvie Gobert, Aurélia Chéry, Alexandre Volpon, Corinne Pelaprat
and Pierre Lejeune
Contents
Part II Towards Landscape Ecology Applied to the Marine Area
10 The Concept of Marine Landscapes Within the French
Information System on Nature and Landscapes (SINP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Amelia Curd and Alain Pibot
11 Management of Infralittoral Habitats:
Towards a Seascape Scale Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Adrien Cheminée, Eric Feunteun, Samuel Clerici, Bertrand Cousin
and Patrice Francour
12 How 3D Complexity of Macrophyte-Formed Habitats Affect
the Processes Structuring Fish Assemblages Within Coastal
Temperate Seascapes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Pierre Thiriet, Adrien Cheminée, Luisa Mangialajo and Patrice Francour
13 Can We use a Landscape Approach to Assess Natural
and Anthropogenic Perturbations of the Rocky Shore Ecosystems?. . . 201
Christian Hily and Maud Bernard
Part III Tools, Methods and Instruments for Monitoring and Modelling
Underwater Seascapes
14 Underwater Multimodal Survey: Merging Optical
and Acoustic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Pierre Drap, Djamal Merad, Jean-Marc Bo¨ ı, Amine Mahiddine,
Daniela Peloso, Bertrand Chemisky, Emmanuelle Seguin,
Frederic Alcala and Olivier Bianchimani
15 Application of the Multi-sensor Fusion Method for Underwater
Landscape Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Claire Noël Christophe Viala, Michel Coquet, Simon Marchetti
and Eric Bauer
16 Reefscape Ecology Within the South Pacific: Confluence
of the Polynesia Mana Network and Very High Resolution Satellite
Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Antoine Collin, Yannick Chancerelle and Robin Pouteau
17 Seascape Integrity Assessment: A Proposed Index
for the Mediterranean Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Sébastien Thorin, Pascaline Bodilis, Thibault Schvartz, Eric Dutrieux
and Patrice Francour
18 The Seascape as an Indicator of Environmental Interest
and Quality of the Mediterranean Benthos: The in Situ Development
of a Description Index: The LIMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Sylvie Gobert, Aurélia Chéry, Alexandre Volpon, Corinne Pelaprat
and Pierre Lejeune