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| Claireaux, Guy; Theron, Michael; Prineau, Michel; Dussauze, Matthieu; Merlin, Francois Xavier; Le Floch, Stephane. |
| The worldwide increasing recourse to chemical dispersants to deal with oil spills in marine coastal ecosystems is a controversial issue. Yet, there exists no adequate methodology that can provide reliable predictions of how oil and dispersant-treated oil can affect relevant organism or population-level performance. The primary objective of the present study was to examine and compare the effects of exposure to untreated oil (weathered Arabian light crude oil), chemically dispersed oil (Finasol, TOTAL-Fluides) or dispersant alone, upon the ability of fish for environmental adaptation. To reach that goal, we implemented high-throughput, non-lethal challenge tests to estimate individual hypoxia and heat tolerance as surrogate measures of their capacity to... |
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Palavras-chave: Oil-spill; Dispersant; Fish; Temperature; Hypoxia; Survival; Growth; Environmental adaptation ability; Darwinian fitness. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00137/24831/23045.pdf |
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| Orvain, F; Sauriau, Pierre-guy; Bacher, Cedric; Prineau, Michel. |
| Laboratory experiments performed in a recirculating flume were designed to quantify the bioturbation influence of the mud snail Hydrobia ulvae, one of the most abundant deposit feeders on European intertidal mudflats. Variations in sediment moisture content that occur between bedforms in shore-normal, ridge and runnel systems of intertidal mudflats were added to the model definition. Sediment erosion thresholds, erosion rates and the microalgal pigment composition of resuspended material were quantified for different H. ulvae densities (0, 1000, 5000, 10 000 and 50 000 snails m(-2)) and applied bed shear stresses. Two different sediment moisture contents were tested. In the absence of macrofauna, recorded turbidities increased up to the maximum applied... |
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Palavras-chave: Model; Flume; Chloropigments; Ridges and tunnels; Mudflat; Sediment; Hydrobia ulvae; Bioturbation; Resuspension. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-3774.pdf |
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