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| Villanueva, Ching-maria; Isumbisho, M; Kaningini, B; Moreau, J; Micha, J. |
| An Ecopath model of the southern part of Lake Kivu, a deep African equatorial lake was constructed to quantitatively describe the possible impact of fish introductions in this ecosystem. This study is considered as an initial step in summarizing ecological and biological information, under a coherent framework, on this ecosystem. Fourteen compartments were considered. As a phytoplankton-based food web, it is observed that key food sources are not fully utilized as transfer efficiencies per trophic levels (TL) varies between 4.5 and 9.4%. Zooplankton plays a major role in transferring organic matter from TL1 to higher TLs due to the abundance of zooplanktivores. Shifts in food preferences and distribution of some of the fish functional groups were observed... |
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Palavras-chave: Lake Kivu; Exotic fishes; Invasion; Transfer efficiency; Food web structure. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4722.pdf |
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| Carlier, Antoine; Ritt, Benedicte; Rodrigues, Clara F.; Sarrazin, Jozee; Olu, Karine; Grall, Jacques; Clavier, Jacques. |
| Cold seep communities in the Mediterranean Sea have only been discovered two decades ago, and their trophic ecology has been the subject of very few studies. We investigated the benthic food web of two deep chemosynthesis-based ecosystems on the Napoli and Amsterdam mud volcanoes (MVs) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (similar to 2,000 m depth). Seeping methane has been detected at the surface of both MVs during pioneering cruises and has been hypothesised to be assimilated by benthic fauna as observed in other oceans' margins. Given the extreme oligotrophic character of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, we a priori expected that chemosynthetic food sources, especially methane-derived carbon (MDC), played a major trophic role in these deep seep communities... |
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Palavras-chave: Gulf of Mexico; Anaerobic methane oxidation; Stable isotope analysis; Sea hydrothermal vents; Food web structure; Kazan mud volcano; Florida escarpment; Trophic relationships; Benthic communauties; Lamellibrachia SP. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00016/12684/9633.pdf |
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| Sokolowski, Adam; Wolowicz, M.; Asmus, H.; Asmus, R.; Carlier, Antoine; Gasiunaite, Z.; Gremare, Antoine; Hummel, H.; Lesutiene, J.; Razinkovas, A.; Renaud, Paul; Richard, P.; Kedra, M.. |
| Numerical structure and the organisation of food webs within macrozoobenthic communities has been assessed in the European waters (Svalbard, Barents Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea) to address the interactions between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Abundance and classical species diversity indices (S, H', J) of macrofaunal communities were related to principal attributes of food webs (relative trophic level and food chain length, FCL) that were determined from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values. Structure of marine macrobenthos varies substantially at a geographical scale; total abundance ranges from 63 ind. m(-2) to 34,517 ind. m(-2), species richness varies from 3 to 166 and the Shannon-Weaver... |
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Palavras-chave: Macrobenthic communities; Biodiversity; Food web structure; Diversity-structure interactions; European waters. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00093/20378/18214.pdf |
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| Carlier, Antoine; Chauvaud, Laurent; Van Der Geest, Matthijs; Le Loc'H, Francois; Le Duff, Michel; Vernet, Marc; Raffray, Jean; Diakhate, Djibril; Labrosse, Pierre; Wague, Abdoulaye; Le Goff, Clement; Gohin, Francis; Chapron, Bertrand; Clavier, Jacques. |
| Banc d’Arguin (BA), Mauritania, is a nationally protected shallow gulf > 10,000 km2 between the Sahara desert and the upwelling system off the Mauritanian coast. In the southeast, BA consists of a 500 km2 tidal flat, the most important wintering site for shorebirds using the East Atlantic Flyway. The Mauritanian upwelling-driven phytoplankton production supports the most productive fisheries worldwide, but little is known about its trophic role in the functioning of the inshore BA food web. Using stable isotopes as trophic tracers to distinguish between upwelling-driven phytoplankton, open ocean phytoplankton, and benthic primary producers, we assessed the spatial extent to which the inshore BA food web is fuelled by upwelling-driven phytoplankton... |
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Palavras-chave: Banc d'Arguin; West Africa; Food web structure; Remote sensing; Stable isotope; Upwelling. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00269/37999/36078.pdf |
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