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Godet, Claire; Robuchon, Marine; Leroy, Boris; Cotté, Cedric; Baudena, Alberto; Da Silva, Ophélie; Fabri-ruiz, Salomé; Lo Monaco, Claire; Sergi, Sara; Koubbi, Philippe. |
Distinguishing regions based on the geographic distribution of both abiotic factors and living organisms is an old but still actual central issue for biogeographers. In the Southern Ocean, the few existing regionalization studies have been carried out either at very large scales or on the relatively small region around the Sub-Antarctic islands of Kerguelen and the Crozet archipelagos. However, regionalization studies at meso-scales (100–300 km) covering the Indian part of the Southern Ocean and adjacent South Indian Ocean are scarce. These waters, ranging from the Subtropical to the polar region, are home to large populations of well-studied top predators that depend on the biomass of less known mid-trophic level species such as zooplankton. To fill those... |
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Palavras-chave: Bioregionalization; Southern Ocean; Indian Ocean; Pelagic ecosystem; Zooplankton; Continuous plankton recorder. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75474/76309.pdf |
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Rivière, Pascal; Jaud, Thomas; Siegelman, Lia; Klein, Patrice; Cotté, Cedric; Le Sommer, Julien; Dencausse, Guillaume; Guinet, Christophe. |
Sub‐mesoscale fronts—with scales from 1 to 50 km are ubiquitous in satellite images of the world oceans. They are known to generate strong vertical velocities with significant impacts on biogeochemical fluxes and pelagic ecosystems. Here, we use a unique data set, combining high‐resolution behavioral and physical measurements, to determine the effects of sub‐mesoscale structures on the foraging behavior of 12 instrumented female southern elephant seals. These marine mammals make long voyages (several months over more than 2000 km), diving and feeding continuously in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Our results show that elephant seals change their foraging behavior when crossing sub‐mesoscale fronts: They forage more and at shallower depths inside... |
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Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00584/69636/67497.pdf |
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