Résumé : L'objectif principal était d'établir un bilan des améliorations et de la logistique nécessaire dans l’éventualité d’un recours à des échantillonneurs passifs pour l’évaluation des niveaux de contamination chimique des eaux dans le contexte hydrodynamique et biogéochimique de la Guyane. Dans ce sens, une action de formation à la mise en place des techniques d'échantillonnage passif et une campagne "terrain" (sur 10 sites) a été réalisée. Cette campagne a permis de fournir les premières mesures de concentrations de nombreux contaminants chimiques (métaux, composés organiques dans les eaux littorales guyanaises. En plus des techniques DGT et SBSE (déjà mises en oeuvre en 2008), des échantillonneurs passifs pour les composés hydrophiles (POCIS) ont aussi été utilisés. Cette étude montre l'opérationnalité de ces systèmes qui permettent d'atteindre les limites de détection requises par la DCE et de mesurer des contaminants présents à l’état de trace et qui n'auraient pas pu être détectés par les méthodes classiques (notamment pour les composés organiques). Ces techniques "tout terrain" permettent aussi de réduire les coûts et d’améliorer la rapidité d'obtention des résultats, de faciliter la mise en oeuvre. Ces techniques ont pu être transférées aux acteurs (préalablement formés) en charge de la surveillance de l'état de la contamination chimique des eaux. Les résultats ont contribué à la caractérisation des masses d'eau guyanaises par rapport à certains contaminants chimiques (métaux, composés organiques hydrophiles et hydrophobes) et mis en évidence de la présence, ou l’absence, de certains composés émergents sur lesquels il n'y avait encore aucune donnée. Les concentrations en métaux (DGT) des différentes masses d'eau indiquent que dans l'ensemble il n’y a pas d'anomalies particulières par rapport à des environnements où la contamination est avérée. Les résultats obtenus par la technique POCIS sont parmi les premiers disponibles en milieu marin côtier. Ils indiquent la présence à de faibles niveaux de concentrations, de substances comme les pesticides (diuron et terbuthylazine), de substances pharmaceutiques (caféine, théophylline, carbamazépine, terbutaline) et d'alkylphénols. La technique SBSE a permis de mettre en évidence la présence de certains composés à des concentrations très faibles Des concentrations notables en endosulfan ont été mesurées à la station de Montsinéry grâce à cette technique.

Droits : 2012 Ifremer
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00071/18206/15773.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00071/18206/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Landes Bioscience
Résumé : International audience
In 2008 we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, research on this topic has continued to accelerate, and many new scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been expanding. Accordingly, it is important to update these guidelines for monitoring autophagy in different organisms. Various reviews have described the range of assays that have been used for this purpose. Nevertheless, there continues to be confusion regarding acceptable methods to measure autophagy, especially in multicellular eukaryotes. A key point that needs to be emphasized is that there is a difference between measurements that monitor the numbers or volume of autophagic elements (e.g., autophagosomes or autolysosomes) at any stage of the autophagic process vs. those that measure flux through the autophagy pathway (i.e., the complete process); thus, a block in macroautophagy that results in autophagosome accumulation needs to be differentiated from stimuli that result in increased autophagic activity, defined as increased autophagy induction coupled with increased delivery to, and degradation within, lysosomes (in most higher eukaryotes and some protists such as Dictyostelium) or the vacuole (in plants and fungi). In other words, it is especially important that investigators new to the field understand that the appearance of more autophagosomes does not necessarily equate with more autophagy. In fact, in many cases, autophagosomes accumulate because of a block in trafficking to lysosomes without a concomitant change in autophagosome biogenesis, whereas an increase in autolysosomes may reflect a reduction in degradative activity. Here, we present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes. These guidelines are not meant to be a formulaic set of rules, because the appropriate assays depend in part on the question being asked and the system being used. In addition, we emphasize that no individual assay is guaranteed to be the most appropriate one in every situation, and we strongly recommend the use of multiple assays to monitor autophagy. In these guidelines, we consider these various methods of assessing autophagy and what information can, or cannot, be obtained from them. Finally, by discussing the merits and limits of particular autophagy assays, we hope to encourage technical innovation in the field.
Autophagy

hal-00735751
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00735751
PUBMED : 22966490

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group
Résumé : While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few 'hyperdominant' species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian trees are a key component of the global carbon cycle, assimilating and storing more carbon than any other ecosystem on Earth. Here we ask, using a unique data set of 530 forest plots, if the functions of storing and producing woody carbon are concentrated in a small number of tree species, whether the most abundant species also dominate carbon cycling, and whether dominant species are characterized by specific functional traits. We find that dominance of forest function is even more concentrated in a few species than is dominance of tree abundance, with only ≈1% of Amazon tree species responsible for 50% of carbon storage and productivity. Although those species that contribute most to biomass and productivity are often abundant, species maximum size is also influential, while the identity and ranking of dominant species varies by function and by region.
ISSN: 2041-1723

hal-01204225
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01204225
DOI : 10.1038/ncomms7857
PRODINRA : 305614
PUBMED : 25919449

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley
Résumé : International audience
We assessed the extent of recent environmental changes on leaf morphological (stomatal density, stomatal surface, leaf mass per unit area) and physiological traits (carbon isotope composition, δ(13)C(leaf) , and discrimination, Δ(13)C(leaf) , oxygen isotope composition, δ(18)O(leaf) ) of two tropical rainforest species (Dicorynia guianensis; Humiria balsamifera) that are abundant in the Guiana shield (Northern Amazonia). Leaf samples were collected in different international herbariums to cover a 200 year time-period (1790-2004) and the whole Guiana shield. Using models describing carbon and oxygen isotope fractionations during photosynthesis, different scenarios of change in intercellular CO(2) concentrations inside the leaf (C(i)), stomatal conductance (g), and photosynthesis (A) were tested in order to understand leaf physiological response to increasing air CO(2) concentrations (C(a)). Our results confirmed that both species displayed physiological response to changing C(a) . For both species, we observed a decrease of about 1.7‰ in δ(13)C(leaf) since 1950, without significant change in Δ(13)C(leaf) and leaf morphological traits. Furthermore, there was no clear change in δ(18)O(leaf) for Humiria over this period. Our simulation approach revealed that an increase in A, rather than a decrease in g, explained the observed trends for these tropical rainforest species, allowing them to maintain a constant ratio of C(i)/C(a) .
ISSN: 0140-7791

halsde-00675165
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00675165
DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02333.x
PUBMED : 21486302

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : En 2009, l’ONF s’associait à l’ONCFS, au Parc Amazonien de Guyane, à l’UMR EcoFoG et à l’Herbier de Cayenne, dans un vaste programme de recherche, intitulé HABITATS. Son objectif : étudier les relations entre sol, végétation et grande faune pour définir une typologie des habitats forestiers de terre ferme, qui couvrent plus de 80 % du territoire. Retour sur le programme et ses acquis
ISSN: 1763-6442

hal-01204215
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01204215
PRODINRA : 279057

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Public Library of Science
Résumé : International audience
While the populations of large herbivores are being depleted in many tropical rainforests, the importance of their trophic role in the ecological functioning and biodiversity of these ecosystems is still not well evaluated. This is due to the outstanding plant diversity that they feed upon and the inherent difficulties involved in observing their elusive behaviour. Classically, the diet of elusive tropical herbivores is studied through the observation of browsing signs and macroscopic analysis of faeces or stomach contents. In this study, we illustrate that the original coupling of classic methods with genetic and ethnobotanical approaches yields information both about the diet diversity, the foraging modalities and the potential impact on vegetation of the largest terrestrial mammal of Amazonia, the lowland tapir. The study was conducted in the Guianan shield, where the ecology of tapirs has been less investigated. We identified 92 new species, 51 new genera and 13 new families of plants eaten by tapirs. We discuss the relative contribution of our different approaches, notably the contribution of genetic barcoding, used for the first time to investigate the diet of a large tropical mammal, and how local traditional ecological knowledge is accredited and valuable for research on the ecology of elusive animals.
ISSN: 1932-6203

halsde-00676374
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00676374
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0025850
PUBMED : 21991372