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14.5 Acknowledgements

Many thanks are also due to the group of scientific divers of the UMR 6539 for sampling of sediment cores. Thanks to the SOMLIT (Service d'Observation en Milieu LITtoral, INSU-CNRS) group responsible for the sampling, analysis and data management of core parameters included in this monitoring program. Many thanks finally to all the people participating in the ECOFLUX network (IUEM / Conseil Gˇnˇral du Finist¸re), for providing estimates of river nutrient fluxes. This study has been funded under the framework of the ART 1, French National Programme of Coastal Environment (PNEC), and under the EU Research Training Network Si-WEBS (HPRN-CT-2002-00218).
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