Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD De Gruyter
Résumé : International audience
Coral reefs have undergone profound ecological changes over recent decades. Areas formerly covered by scleractinian coral species are now often overgrown by macroalgae. In Martinique (West Indies), this phenomenon has lead to the colonisation of numerous coral reefs by algae, amongst which Sargassum is one of the most prominent. This study focuses on potential defence molecules produced by Sargassum polyceratium. The hexane dipping method was employed to extract surface molecules on fresh material, and their bioactivities were assessed against bacteria (marine and estuarine), and marine tropical invertebrates wan annelid (Pseudonereis sp.), a bivalve (Codakia orbicularis) and a sea urchin (Diadema antillarum)x. Extracts were active against all microorganisms tested (MICs150 or 300 mg ml-1), early stages of development in Pseudonereis sp. (MICs100 mg ml-1) and embryos of C. orbicularis and D. antillarum (MICs5 mg ml-1), suggesting the production of defence compounds by S. polyceratium.
ISSN: 0006-8055

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https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00746082
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00746082/document
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00746082/file/Publication_Sargassum_bortanica_marina.pdf
DOI : 10.1515/BOT.2011.014

Résumé : Une étude des facteurs influençant la composition et la répartition spatiale des abondances algales dans les communautés récifales des Antilles françaises et plus spécifiquement de Guadeloupe a été réalisée. Le rôle joué par les oursins diadème est plus particulièrement étudié. Les principaux compartiments des communautés récifales et les facteurs d'influence susceptibles de jouer un rôle dans la régulation du compartiment algal ont été dimensionnés sur 22 stations des Antilles françaises. Pour cela plusieurs indicateurs ont été testés. Après une description de chaque compartiment biotique (algues, herbivores, prédateurs), une recherche des facteurs influençant les caractéristiques du compartiment algal a été menée à trois échelles spatiales, à l'aide d'analyses statistiques non paramétriques, notamment des analyses canoniques des redondances et des correspondances. Puis, une recherche des facteurs influençant la répartition des oursins diadème a été également menée. Si les deux guildes d'herbivores étudiées (poissons et oursins diadème) ont un impact significatif sur l'abondance de gazon algal, seuls les poissons herbivores ont la capacité d'exercer cette influence à l'échelle des récifs de Guadeloupe et cette influence ne s'étend pas aux autres catégories algales. Notamment les phéophycées. A l'échelle de l'ensemble des îles étudiées, les analyses effectuées n'ont pas permis de mettre en évidence l'influence des herbivores sur la régulation des abondances algales. Les oursins diadèmes sont en faible densité dans les iles antillaises étudiées. Plusieurs facteurs susceptibles de participer à leur répartition en taille et en abondance sont identifiés.
A study of factors influencing the composition and spatial distribution of algal abundance in the French Caribbean reef communities and more specifically in Guadeloupe was conducted. The role of diadema sea urchins was particularly studied. For that, 22 stations in the French Antilles were selected and several indicators tested. After a description of each biotic compartment (algae, herbivore, predators), a search for factors influencing the characteristics of the algal compartment was conducted at three spatial scale, using non-parametric statistical analyses, including canonical correspondence analyses (cca) and redundancy analyses (rda). Then a search for the factors influencing the distribution of diadema sea urchins was also conducted. If the two guilds of herbivores (diadema sea urchin and fish) have a significant impact on the abundance of algal turf, only herbivorous fish was found to have an influence in the reefs of Guadeloupe and that influence was not observed on other algal groups, including phaeophyceae. At the scale of all the islands, the analyses did not enable to show the influence of herbivores in the regulation of algal abundance. The density of sea urchins was found to be low in the studied sites. Several factors likely to influence their distribution in size and their abundance were identified.

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Éditeur(s) : Gauthier-Villars
Résumé : Echinoderms show phenotypic plasticity in which variation in environmental conditions elicit graded reaction norms of morphological change. With the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus under laboratory conditions, decreases in available food caused decreases in dry weights of the gonad and gut coupled with increases in the mass of Aristotle's lantern and length of the demi-pyramids. Spine clipping caused increased spine growth as well as decreases in the gut and gonad masses. Survival rate remained unchanged over a range of feeding and clipping treatments. In the field, at Sunset Bay, Oregon, well-fed sea urchins, with relatively small demi-pyramids, showed survival rates similar to poorly fed sea urchins that had large demi-pyramids. The wide range of morphological change, coupled with the narrow range of-change in survival, suggests that morphological plasticity buffers survival and hence would increase fitness. Phenotypic plasticity shown by other sea urchins includes changes in the relative sizes of Aristotle's lantern in Diadema antillarum and Echinometra mathaei and seasonal variation in the density of pedicellariae in Echinus esculentus. Variation in body size of echinoids and asteroids in different habitats and variation in number of arms in crinoids also may be examples of adaptive plasticity. Seasonal atrophy of internal organs in the sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus has been interpreted as an adaptive response to food limitation but, given the nature of responses in other echinoderms, such an interpretation seems unlikely and the significance of seasonal atrophy of organs in holothurians remains unknown.
Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1996 , Vol. 19 , N. 3-4 , P. 347-355

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