| Abstract | Created in 2016, the objective of the Coastal Research Infrastructure (ILICO) is to observe and understand coastal environments and ecosystems in their entirety. ILICO federates observation resources to measure the essential parameters of coastal systems over the long term, to collect samples and to ensure the availability of these data. ILICO provides a scientific animation for the scientific community involved in the study of these environments. ILICO IR includes 9 SNOs: MOOSE, SOMLIT, COAST-HF, PHYTOBS, DYNALIT, SONEL, ReefTemps, CORAIL, BENTHOS.
Through these elementary networks, ILICO allows to answer a set of scientific problems (assessment of the regional impact of global changes, understanding of the land/ocean continuum, evolution of planktonic biodiversity, etc.) but also to understand the existing differentiation between effects related to long time and space scales (climate variation, plate tectonics, etc.) and effects related to more local and short time scale causes (anthropogenic factors, threshold effect disruptions, etc.) If the increase in the number of time series and the acquisition of new parameters will promote the understanding of phenomena with rapid variability (tides, floods, storms, etc.. While the increase in the number of time series and the acquisition of new parameters will facilitate the understanding of rapidly variable phenomena (tides, floods, storms, etc.), the maintenance of observation systems and long-term monitoring within ILICO aims to continue the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of processes in many areas: evolution and variability of currents, sea states and hydrological structure of coastal areas; exchange of materials within the land-sea continuum and its morphodynamic evolution in a context of global change; evolution of the structure of the food chain in response to changes in the nature and availability of nutrients, etc. |
