Lefeuvre Jean-Claude, Laffaille Pascal, Feunteun Eric, Bouchard Virginie, Radureau Alain
UMR 6653 EcoBio, Equipe d'animation de la zone atelier La Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel et ses bassins versants, Université de Rennes 1, Campus Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France.
C R Biol. 2003 Aug;326 Suppl 1:S125-31. doi: 10.1016/s1631-0691(03)00049-0.
Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) were regarded as most significant of the French coasts. However, it took 20 years of research on the role of these wetlands of the estuaries-salt marsh systems to highlight the ecological, social and economic interest of this ecotone, between continental and marine systems, a long time considered as territory "without value", except for stock breeders or hunters.
直到1979年，人们对欧洲盐沼的了解还仅来自于动物尤其是植物的清单。基于这些标准，圣米歇尔湾（法国）的盐沼被认为是法国海岸最具代表性的。然而，经过20年对河口-盐沼系统中这些湿地作用的研究，才凸显出这片处于大陆和海洋系统之间的生态交错带的生态、社会和经济价值，这片长期以来被视为“毫无价值”的区域，除了对畜牧者或猎人而言。
