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| Dupuy, Christine; Vaquer, André; Lam Hoai, Thong; Rougier, Claude; Mazouni, Nabila; Lautier, Jacques; Collos, Yves; Le Gall, Solange. |
| The Mediterranean Thau Lagoon is an important oyster farming area in Europe. Oyster growth rates are among the highest in France, although chlorophyll a concentration is low. Previous studies have demonstrated that picophytoplankton, nano-microphytoplankton, dinoflagellates and loricate ciliates such as tintinnids are abundant. However, heterotrophic flagellates and aloricate ciliates have not been investigated. The aim of this study was to assess picophytoplankton, protist and zooplankton abundances in the Lagoon and to investigate the particular structure of the microbial food web, which may explain such paradoxical oyster growth. In oligotrophic waters in the Thau Lagoon, the picoeukaryote Ostreococcus tauri is the dominant autotrophic picoplankter,... |
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Palavras-chave: Trophic link; Picophytoplankton; Heterotrophic protist; Microbial food web; Thau Lagoon; Food source; Oyster; Bivalve. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2000/publication-812.pdf |
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| Loret, Pascale; Le Gall, Solange; Dupuy, Christine; Blanchot, Jean; Pastoureaud, Annie; Delesalle, Bruno; Caisey, Xavier; Jonquieres, Gerard. |
| Pearl oysters are farmed in oligotrophic tropical atoll lagoons where planktonic communities are dominated by production from cyanobacteria smaller than 2 pm. Paradoxically, the pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera only retains particles larger than 2 Pm. In this study, we assess the relative contribution of hetero/mixotrophic microbiota to the available planktonic resource. In Takapoto Atoll, picocyanobacteria are the dominant biomass (20 mug C l(-1)). The carbon biomass of ciliates and dinoflagellates ranges from 1 to 24 and 0.5 to 5 mug C l(-1) respectively, with a mean of 6 mug C l(-1) for ciliates and 2 mug C l(-1) for dinoflagellates. The possible retention by P. margaritifera on a natural protist suspension was investigated. Due to its high clearance... |
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Palavras-chave: Trophic resource; Picoplankton; Pinctada margaritifera; Pearl oysters; Atoll lagoon; Protists. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2000/publication-823.pdf |
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| Le Gall, Solange; Bel Hassen, Malika; Le Gall, Pierre. |
| The linked concepts of 'microbial loop' and 'protozoan trophic link' have been very well documented in filter-feeding microzooplankton such as copepods, but have not been applied to energy transfer to benthic suspension-feeding macrofauna, with the exception of the recent demonstration of heterotrophic flagellate assimilation by mussels. The oyster Crassostrea gigas obtains energy resources by filtering microalgae (similar to 5 to 100 mu m). However, in turbid estuaries, light-limited phytoplanktonic production cannot entirely account for oyster energy requirements. Conversely, picoplankters (<2 mu m), which are main effecters of coastal energy flow and matter cycling, are not efficiently retained by oyster filtration. Ciliate protozoal as both... |
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Palavras-chave: Oyster; Food sources; Picoplankton; Protozoa; Trophic link. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00337/44788/44482.pdf |
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| Dupuy, Christine; Ryckaert, Mireille; Le Gall, Solange; Hartmann, Hans. |
| The structure and summertime production of planktonic communities and the role of nondiatom planktonic cells were studied in coastal ponds, which are areas traditionally used for fattening and greening table-sized oysters. The abundance and biomass of nano-microplanktonic protists were determined at weekly intervals between February 1998 and February 1999 in a coastal pond without oysters in the French Atlantic coast near La Rochelle. The production of these microbiotas was determined in the summer period. The structure of plankton communities revealed the following observations: (1) microphytoplanktonic cells were mostly diatoms and dinoflagellates, (2) microzooplanktonic cells were mainly ciliates, and (3) nanoplanktonic cells were represented by... |
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Palavras-chave: Food source microbial structure and production nanoflagellates; Coastal pond. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2641.pdf |
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