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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Coral reefs in the Anthropocene : The effects of stress on coral metabolism and symbiont composition

Faxneld, Suzanne January 2011 (has links)
Coral reefs constitute some of the most prolific and diverse ecosystems on our planet, but also among the most threatened. This thesis investigates the effects of environmental stressors on corals’ metabolism and symbiont diversity. Paper I shows that the coral Turbinaria mesenterina withstood a single stressor while a combination of two stressors (decreased salinity and increased seawater temperature) lead to decreased metabolism. Increased seawater temperature in combination with two stressors (enhanced nutrients and decreased salinity) lead to rapid mortality of all specimens. Paper II shows that chronic stress in combination with increased seawater temperature affects coral species differently. Porites lutea did not show any difference in response to temperature increase, regardless of environmental disturbance history, while Galaxea fascicularis’ metabolism was negatively affected in chronically disturbed corals but not in corals from less disturbed areas. The main explanation for the difference in response between the two species is different compositions of endosymbionts as found in paper III. P. lutea only harboured the symbiont C15, regardless of environment, whilst D1a dominated the nearshore G. fascicularis and C1 dominated offshore corals. In paper IV there was a clear inshore-offshore pattern of D1a along the whole coast of Vietnam, where D1a dominated inshore. In contrast, the five symbionts belonging to group C displayed a strong latitudinal gradient, with diversity increasing from north to south. The coral host showed higher diversity offshore than inshore. The thesis emphasizes the importance of improving water quality (paper I and II) and protecting marginal areas since tolerant coral hosts and symbionts can be found there (paper III and IV), as well as safeguarding areas with high symbiont diversity (paper IV) to increase the ability of corals to withstand future environmental changes. / At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.
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New Records of Marine Tardigrades From Moorea, French Polynesia, With the Description of Styraconyx Turbinarium sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada, Halechiniscidae)

Bartels, Paul J., Fontoura, Paulo, Nelson, Diane R. 01 January 2015 (has links)
Five marine arthrotardigrade species are recorded from Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia. Four were collected from coral sand; two, Dipodarctus anaholiensis Pollock, 1995 and Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997, are new records for the region, and two, Halechiniscus perfectus Schulz, 1955 and Styraconyx kristenseni kristenseni Renaud-Mornant, 1981, have been previously reported. The fifth, a new species Styraconyx turbinarium sp. nov., is described and was collected from the drifting brown alga Turbinaria ornata. The new species is characterized by the presence of peduncles on all digits, an elongate primary clava, and the lateral cirrus A arising from a common pedestal and enveloped by a common membrane extending almost to the claval tip. The new species differs from the most similar species, Styraconyx tyrrhenus D'Addabbo Gallo, Morone De Lucia & de Zio Grimaldi, 1989, by having longer and differently shaped primary clavae which are elongated in the new species and club-shaped in S. tyrrhenus. By having a dorsal cuticle that is coarsely punctated but without folds or other ornamentations, the new species can be easily distinguished from S. craticulus (Pollock, 1983), a species with similar primary clavae, but with cuticular dorsal folds ornamented with a grid-like pattern.
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Etude de la biodiversité des Sargassaceae (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) en milieux tempéré et tropical : écologie, chimiotaxonomie et source de composés bioactifs

Le Lann, Klervi 27 November 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Quatre genres de Sargassaceae présentant de forte biomasse en Bretagne et/ou dans le Pacifique Sud ont été choisi comme modèles de cette étude. Les objectifs étant i) de mieux comprendre l'écologie chimique des Sargassaceae en milieu tempéré et en milieu tropical, ii) de rechercher des chimiomarqueurs spécifiques à certaines espèces et iii) de rechercher de molécules potentiellement bioactives. Ainsi, un travail pluridisciplinaire a été entrepris avec l'étude de l'écologie chimique des Sargassaceae, en Bretagne d'une part, via l'étude des variations spatio-temporelles de certains composés de défenses synthétisés par Sargassum muticum, Bifurcaria bifurcata et Cystoseira baccata associé à un suivi écologique de ces espèces et dans le Pacifique Sud d'autre part, via l'étude de ces mêmes composés de défenses au sein de Turbinaria sp. et Sargassum sp provenant de différents sites. Parallèlement, deux études de chimiotaxonomie ont été menées. D'une part sur le genre Turbinaria afin d'identifier un ou des chimiomarqueur(s) permettant de discriminer T. ornata et de T. conoides. Et d'autre part sur B. bifurcata afin de mieux comprendre la répartition géographique des types chimiques existants au sein de cette espèce. Puis, pour répondre au troisième objectif de cette thèse, trois activités biologiques ont été recherchées en priorité au sein des espèces étudiées: la cytotoxicité, l'activité anti-inflammatoire et la neurotoxicité. Les résultats de cette étude ont permis i) de mettre en évidence l'impact des conditions environnementales sur les variables biologiques et écologiques étudiées chez ces espèces en milieu tempéré comme en milieu tropical ; ii) d'identifier l'acide turbinarique comme étant un chimiomarqueur de l'espèce T. conoides et de mettre en évidence l'existence d'écotypes chez B. bifurcata ; iii) de rapporter l'activité anti-phospholipase A2 d'acides gras issus d'algues du Pacifique Sud et l'activité antiradicalaire et antioxydante de l'éléganolone isolée chez B. bifurcata.

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