Data for: Ecosystem-Based Quality Index at the bay scale: assessing the status of a heterogeneous system in a functional framework.

This dataset provides scripts and data used to produce the study "Ecosystem-Based Quality Index at the bay scale: assessing the status of a heterogeneous system in a functional framework." doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108260 . The Ecosystem-Based Quality Index (EBQI), developed for the Mediterranean Sea, may be adaptable to other ecosystems due to its functional approach being closer to a methodological framework than a specialized index.

This work implement the shGSL-EBQI (shallow heterogeneous Gulf of St. Lawrence-EBQI) Data provided here include: - field data on macro-epibenthic invertebrates, algal community, infauna, bioturbation, Organic matter and photosynthetic pigments content in sediment in the Baie des Sept Îles (Québec, Canada). - potential environmental and anthropogenic drivers in the area - Scoring criteria, box scores, weighting schemes and model description datasets used to caculate the shGSL-EBQI.