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| Denis, Jeremy; Vallet, Carole; Vincent, Dorothée; Courcot, Lucie; Marchal, Paul; Loots, Christophe. |
| The aim of this study was to characterize the feeding strategy of Downs herring larvae at "critical period" during winter in the English Channel and North Sea was defined to assess whether nutrition is responsible for low recruitment in stocks over the past years. Data collected during the French part of the International Bottom Trawl Survey from 2008 to 2014 were used to analyse fish larvae diet by direct observation using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Gut content methods generally used for copepods was adapted to fish larvae to assess phytoplankton ingestion. The relative importance of small preys (0,5-375µm) observed in gut contents proved the essential role of SEM to better acknowledge Downs herring diet. We demonstrated that Downs herring larvae... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00255/36608/35174.pdf |
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| Koubbi, Philippe; O'Brien, Colleen; Loots, Christophe; Giraldo, Carolina; Smith, Martina; Tavernier, Eric; Vacchi, Marino; Vallet, Carole; Chevallier, Jean; Moteki, Masato. |
| This paper investigates the abundance and distribution of Pleuragramma antarcticum larvae by size class in the Dumont d’Urville Sea from 2004 to 2010. Samples were collected between Dumont d’Urville station and the Mertz Glacier Tongue onboard the RV l’Astrolabe for studying the inter-annual and spatial distribution of fish larvae and the TRV Umitaka Maru for looking at life stages vertical distributions. The seabed depression adjacent to the Mertz Glacier Tongue and in Commonwealth Bay hosted high abundances of small P. antarcticum larvae, while larger larvae were found in lower abundance and further offshore. We found that canyons, sea ice, stability of the water column and temperatures are important features for determining suitable areas for young... |
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Palavras-chave: Pleuragramma antarcticum; East Antarctic shelf; Fish larvae; Life cycle; Inter-annual variations. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00069/17992/15528.pdf |
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| Swadling, Kerrie M.; Penot, Florian; Vallet, Carole; Rouyer, Armelle; Gasparini, Stephane; Mousseau, Laure; Smith, Martina; Goffart, Anne; Koubbi, Philippe. |
| Spatial and temporal variability of zooplankton was studied during five summers (2004-2008) in the Dumont d'Urville Sea, east Antarctica. The species recorded, based on the catch of a 500 mm-mesh Bongo net, were typical of southern continental shelf communities in Antarctica, including Euphausia crystallorophias, polychaetes, pteropods and biomass-dominant copepods. There was a strong degree of temporal variation in abundance, possibly related to the thickness and extent of the sea ice cover during each spring prior to the surveys. Total mean abundance was highly variable between years, with a minimum of 961 ind. 1000m(-3) in 2004 (range 65-3407 ind. 1000 m(-3)) and a maximum of 15,627 ind. 1000 m(-3) in 2005 (range 5109-33,869 ind. 1000 m(-3)). Spatially,... |
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Palavras-chave: Salinity; Temperature; Sea ice; Zooplankton-environment relationships; Mertz glacier. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00230/34123/32600.pdf |
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