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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.
51

Influence des gradients environnementaux sur la structure des communautés endobenthiques du système du Saint-Laurent

Lescouzères, Fanny Céline Clémentine 28 July 2023 (has links)
Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 25 juillet 2023) / Les organismes benthiques jouent des rôles importants dans les écosystèmes aquatiques tels que l'oxygénation, la décomposition ou le recyclage de la matière organique. Toutefois, les pressions environnementales et anthropiques croissantes menacent le bon fonctionnement de ces systèmes et engendrent une baisse de la diversité benthique, qui mériteraient d'être mieux documentées. Le Saint-Laurent, considéré comme l'un des plus grands systèmes hydrographiques au monde, présente une mosaïque d'habitats variés, de forts gradients environnementaux et de nombreuses pressions humaines, tous susceptibles d'influencer les communautés benthiques à divers degrés. Cette étude s'est intéressée à trois régions hydrologiques du Saint-Laurent : la portion fluviale, l'estuaire fluvial et l'estuaire moyen. L'objectif était de caractériser la composition et la répartition des différentes communautés benthiques dans une portion contrastée du système Saint-Laurent et d'identifier les variables environnementales qui expliquaient le mieux leur présence. Les communautés benthiques ont été échantillonnées à 113 stations de Montréal à Cacouna de 2018 à 2020. Les embranchements Annelida et Arthropoda étaient les deux taxons les plus représentés dans notre échantillonnage. Les analyses de groupement ont révélé neuf communautés benthiques influencées par les gradients environnementaux propres des régions hydrologiques. Les masses d'eau, la salinité, la nature des sédiments ainsi que la température étaient les quatre variables clés qui expliquaient 16 % de la relation entre les communautés et les variables environnementales. Cette étude a mis en évidence les effets de processus régionaux sur la structure des communautés benthiques et suggère l'implication de plusieurs effets locaux. Enfin, c'est la première fois qu'une étude portant sur les communautés benthiques couvre à la fois le fleuve et l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent. Ce travail à grande échelle permet d'affiner la compréhension de l'écosystème et contribue à améliorer la pertinence des indicateurs benthiques. / Benthic organisms play important roles in aquatic ecosystems such as oxygenation, decomposition, or recycling of organic matter. However, growing environmental and anthropogenic pressures threaten the proper functioning of aquatic environments and lead to a decline in benthic diversity, which deserves to be better documented. St. Lawrence, considered one of the largest hydrographic systems in the world, presents a mosaic of varying habitats, strong environmental gradients, and numerous human pressures, all likely to influence benthic communities to varying degrees. This study focused on three hydrological regions of St. Lawrence: the fluvial portion, the fluvial estuary, and the upper estuary. The objective was to characterize the composition and distribution of different benthic communities in a contrasting portion of the St. Lawrence system and to identify the environmental variables that best explained their presence. Benthic communities were sampled at 113 stations from Montreal to Cacouna between 2018 and 2020. The phyla Annelida and Arthropoda were the two most represented taxa in our sampling. Cluster analyses revealed nine benthic communities influenced by hydrological region-specific environmental gradients. Water masses, salinity, nature of sediment, and temperature were the four key variables that explained 11% of the relationship between communities and environmental variables. This study has highlighted the effects of regional processes on the structure of benthic communities and suggests the involvement of several local effects. Finally, this is the first time that a study on benthic communities has covered both the St. Lawrence River and the estuary. This large-scale work makes it possible to refine the understanding of the system and contributes to improving the relevance of benthic indicators.
52

An investigation of biodiversity patterns and processes in nematode populations of Loch Ness

David, Rhian January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
53

Effects of deployment of artificial reefs on the marine benthic environment, with special reference to sediment physico-chemical characteristics /

Wai, Ho Yin. January 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009. / "Submitted to Department of Biology and Chemistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-191)
54

Population dynamics, life cycles and production of marine benthic polychaetes near Godhavn, Greenland.

Curtis, Mark A. January 1973 (has links)
No description available.
55

The effects of suspended sediment on aquatic community structure and deritus processing /

Welsh, John H. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-32). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.
56

The impact of climate change on benthic-pelagic coupling and the biogeochemical cycling of Narragansett Bay, R.I./

Fulweiler, Robinson Walter. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-250).
57

Fine benthic organic matter (FBOM) dynamics in low-order mountain streams : (1) methods evaluation and (2) the effects of stand age, season, and elevation on FBOM nutrient availability and microbiological characteristics /

Bonin, Heather. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 1998. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.
58

Late quaternary benthic foraminifera of the Patton-Murray Seamount group, Gulf of Alaska.

Burbidge, Susan M. (Susan Margot), Carleton University. Dissertation. Geology. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (M. Sc.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
59

Benthic habitats of the extended Faial Island Shelf and their relationship to geologic, oceanographic and infralittoral biologic features /

Tempera, Fernando. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, January 2009.
60

Biodiversity and biogeography of recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the south-western South China Sea (Sunda Shelf)

Szarek, Renata. Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
University, Diss., 2001--Kiel.

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