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Saulnier, E.; Le Bris, H.; Tableau, Adrien; Dauvin, J.c.; Brind'Amour, Anik. |
Despite their importance for species conservation and sound management of exploited living resources, the density-dependent mechanisms that regulate wild populations are among the least understood process in ecology. In many marine fish species, there is strong evidence that regulation occurs at the juvenile stage, when individuals concentrate in spatially restricted nurseries. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Whether competition for food resources determines fish growth and survival is particularly controversial. We investigated whether food supply may have limited juvenile fish production (integrating both growth and survival) in a coastal and estuarine nursery in western Europe. Using a recent bioenergetics-based approach, we... |
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Palavras-chave: Food limitation; Nursery; Juvenile fish; Predatory invertebrates; Macrofauna; English channel. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00611/72282/71080.pdf |
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Chouvelon, Tiphaine; Schaal, G.; Grall, J.; Pernet, Fabrice; Perdriau, M.; A-pernet, E. J.; Le Bris, H.. |
Anthropogenic activities and land-based inputs into the sea may influence the trophic structure and functioning of coastal and continental shelf ecosystems, despite the numerous opportunities and services the latter offer to humans and wildlife. In addition, hydrological structures and physical dynamics potentially influence the sources of organic matter (e.g., terrestrial versus marine, or fresh material versus detrital material) entering marine food webs. Understanding the significance of the processes that influence marine food webs and ecosystems (e.g., terrestrial inputs, physical dynamics) is crucially important because trophic dynamics are a vital part of ecosystem integrity. This can be achieved by identifying organic matter sources that enter food... |
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Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38612/37468.pdf |
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Kostecki, Caroline; Le Loc'H, F.; Roussel, J. -m.; Desroy, Nicolas; Huteau, D.; Riera, Pascal; Le Bris, H.; Le Pape, Olivier. |
Estuaries are essential fish habitats because they provide nursery grounds for a number of marine species. Previous studies in the Bay of Vilaine (part of the Bay of Biscay, France) have underlined the estuarine dependence of juvenile common sole (Solea solea, L) and shown that the extent of sole nursery grounds was positively influenced by the variability of the river flow. In the present study, stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes were used to describe the trophic network until the young-of-the-year sole and to compare interannual variations in the dominant trophic pathways in the sole nursery areas in this bay. Particulate organic matter (POM), sediment organic matter (SOM), microphytobenthos, benthic invertebrate sole prey and young-of-the-year common... |
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Palavras-chave: Juvenile Common Sole; Stable Isotopes; Estuarine Nursery Grounds; Food Web; Eastern Atlantic. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00008/11923/8641.pdf |
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Le Pape, Olivier; Moderan, J.; Beaunee, G.; Riera, Pascal; Nicolas, Delphine; Savoye, N.; Harmelin-vivien, M.; Darnaude, A. M.; Brind'Amour, Anik; Le Bris, H.; Cabral, H.; Vinagre, C.; Pasquaud, S.; Franca, S.; Kostecki, Caroline. |
Coastal and estuarine nursery grounds are essential habitats for sustaining flatfish stocks since only these shallow and productive areas provide the high food supply that allows maximizing juvenile growth and survival in most flatfish species. However, the main organic matter sources at the basis of benthic food webs might differ drastically between estuarine nursery grounds under strong freshwater influences, where food webs are mainly supported by continental organic matter, and coastal ecosystems under limited freshwater influence, where the local marine primary production is the main source of carbon for the benthos. To better understand the links between continental inputs to the coastal zone and stock maintenance in the highly prized common sole,... |
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Palavras-chave: Nursery ground; Flatfish; Organic matter origin; Stable isotopes; Mixing model SIAR. |
Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00118/22889/20796.pdf |
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Mortillaro, J. M.; Schaal, G.; Grall, Jacques; Nerot, C.; Brind'Amour, Anik; Marchais, V.; Perdriau, M.; Le Bris, H.. |
In coastal estuarine embayments, retention of water masses due to coastal topography may result in an increased contribution of continental organic matter in food webs. However, in megatidal embayments, the effect of topography can be counterbalanced by the process of tidal mixing. Large amounts of continental organic matter are exported each year by rivers to the oceans. The fate of terrestrial organic matter in food webs of coastal areas and on neighboring coastal benthic communities was therefore evaluated, at multi-trophic levels, from primary producers to primary consumers and predators. Two coastal areas of the French Atlantic coast, differing in the contributions from their watershed, tidal range and aperture degree, were compared using carbon and... |
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Palavras-chave: Bay of Brest; Bay of Vilaine; Benthic; Filter-feeders; Stable isotopes; Organic matter. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00167/27847/26203.pdf |
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Kostecki, Caroline; Roussel, J. M.; Desroy, Nicolas; Roussel, G.; Lanshere, J.; Le Bris, H.; Le Pape, Olivier. |
Coastal and estuarine nurseries are essential habitats for juvenile flatfish. These small but productive areas provide food supply and sustain adult fish populations. The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (MSMB) supports an important flatfish nursery ground but differs from many other nursery habitats due to limited freshwater inputs. The objectives of the present study in the MSMB were to (1) use gut content analysis to identify prey of the 2 most abundant flatfish species (common sole Solea solea and plaice Pleuronectes platessa) for different juvenile age-classes (0-group and 1-group for sole, 0-group for plaice), (2) use C and N stable isotope analysis to model the production sources sustaining juvenile flatfish production, and (3) compare these results with... |
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Palavras-chave: Microphytobenthos; Organic matter origin; Benthic food web; Coastal nursery ground; Juvenile flatfish. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00073/18438/15976.pdf |
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