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| Fournier, Jonathan. |
| While pearl culture industry represents one of the dominant business sector of French Polynesia, it still entirely relies on natural reproduction and spat collection. A better knowledge of reproduction determinism is thus of particular interest for the black lip pearl oyster P. margaritifera. This work is based (i) on in situ studies of the pearl oyster diet and of the environmental determinism of reproduction; and (ii) on the application to the black lip pearl oyster of a bio-energetic and deterministic model of growth and reproduction based on the Dynamic Energy Budget theory. In Ahe atoll lagoon, plankton concentration and composition fluctuations were strongly linked to wind regimes. These variations had a great impact on the diet of pearl oysters... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00074/18533/16077.pdf |
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| Fournier, Jonathan; Dupuy, Celie; Bouvy, Marc; Couraudon-reale, Marine; Charpy, Loic; Pouvreau, Stephane; Le Moullac, Gilles; Le Pennec, Marie-annick; Cochard, Jean-claude. |
| In atoll lagoons of French Polynesia, growth and reproduction of pearl oysters are mainly driven by plankton concentration. However, the actual diet of black-lip pearl oysters P. margaritifera in these lagoons is poorly known. To fill this gap, we used the flow through chamber method to measure clearance rates of P. margaritifera in Ahe atoll lagoon (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia). We found : (i) that pearl oysters cleared plankton at a rate that was positively related to plankton biovolume, (ii) that nanoflagellates were the main source of carbon for the pearl oysters, (iii) that the quantity and origin of carbon filtrated by pearl oysters was highly dependent on the concentration and composition of plankton. These results provide essential... |
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Palavras-chave: Pinctada margaritifera; Clearance rates; French Polynesia; Phytoplankton; Protists. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00078/18888/16599.pdf |
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| Fournier, Jonathan; Levesque, Emmanuelle; Pouvreau, Stephane; Le Pennec, Marcel; Le Moullac, Gilles. |
| Pearl culture industry represents one of the dominant business sector of French Polynesia. However, it still entirely relies on unpredictable spat collection success. Our aim was to assess the influence of natural plankton concentration fluctuations on maturation and spawning of the black lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera, during a 4 months survey conducted in Ahe atoll lagoon. Plankton concentration was assessed by chlorophyll a extraction and by microscope counts while gonadic index, gonado-visceral dry weights and histology were used to measure pearl oysters reproduction activity. We found that (i) plankton concentration fluctuations were mainly related to wind regime, (ii) gametogenesis rate was mainly related to plankton concentration, (iii)... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl Oyster; Gametogenesis; Spawning; Phytoplankton; French Polynesia. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21201/19697.pdf |
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