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Lacoste, Elise; Mckindsey, Christopher W.; Archambault, Philippe. |
Coastal benthic ecosystems may be impacted by numerous human activities, including aquaculture, which continues to expand rapidly. Indeed, today aquaculture worldwide provides more biomass for human consumption than do wild fisheries. This rapid development raises questions about the interactions the practice has with the surrounding environment. In order to design strategies of sustainable ecosystem exploitation and marine spatial planning, a better understanding of coastal ecosystem functioning is needed so that tools to quantify impacts of human activities, including aquaculture, may be developed. To achieve this goal, some possible directions proposed are integrated studies leading to new concepts, model development based on these concepts and... |
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Palavras-chave: Aquaculture-environment interactions; Benthic system; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Shellfish. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00611/72279/71161.pdf |
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Lacoste, Elise; Le Moullac, Gilles; Levy, Peva; Gueguen, Yannick; Gaertner-mazouni, Nabila. |
In bivalve aquaculture, dominant fouling organisms are filter feeders which can compete for food with reared bivalves, sometimes causing mortality or reducing their growth rate. This study investigated the effect of biofouling on the farmed pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera in two lagoons of French Polynesia. Survival, growth and reproduction of 2 year-old pearl oysters were monitored with regular sampling schedules, from the initial stage of colonization up to 20 months of biofouling accumulation. Control groups of pearl oysters were kept free of biofouling as is the current practice in pearl farms. After more than a year of monitoring, no significant difference was recorded in shell growth rate between pearl oysters reared with epibionts and the... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster culture; Pinctada margaritifera; Biofouling; Growth; Reproduction. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00201/31188/29587.pdf |
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Lacoste, Elise; Raimbault, Patrick; Harmelin-vivien, Mireille; Gaertner-mazouni, Nabila. |
Bivalve cultures support a host of epibionts, mainly suspension feeders, which can compete for food resources with the cultivated bivalves. However, the magnitude of interspecific competition for food in bivalve aquaculture settings remains inconclusive, especially in tropical areas. We investigated the interactions for food between the farmed pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera and its epibionts, using stable isotope analysis and feeding experiments. Inter-and intraspecific variations of delta C-13 and delta N-15 stable isotope ratios (SIRs) were determined for oysters in the presence or absence of epibionts. The diet of the most abundant epibionts, Herdmania momus and Didemnum sp., was specified using isotope measurements and flow cytometry during... |
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Palavras-chave: Ascidian; Biofouling; Trophic interactions; Stable isotope; Flow cytometry. |
Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00664/77582/79564.pdf |
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