Identifying benthic macrofaunal assemblages and indicator taxa of intertidal boulder fields in the south of the Bay of Biscay (northern Basque coast). A framework for future monitoring

Thus, this work constitutes a framework for future monitoring of the Basque intertidal rocky shore and could be used as an alternative to sampling the entire biodiversity. It also meets the MSFD requirements (e.g. take into account marine subregion specificities; integrate the metric “macrofauna” and supports several descriptors as the D1 “Biodiversity” and D6 “Seafloor integrity”).