Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The potential effects of the mineralogical composition of sediment on the degradation of oil buried on sandy beaches were investigated. Toward that purpose, a laboratory experiment was carried out with sandy sediment collected along NW Iberian Peninsula beaches, tar-balls from the Prestige oil spill (NW Spain) and seawater. The results indicate that the mineralogical composition is important for the physical appearance of the oil (tar-balls or oil coatings). This finding prompted a reassessment of the current sequence of degradation for buried oil based on compositional factors. Moreover, the halo development of the oil coatings might be enhanced by the carbonate concentration of the sand. These findings open new prospects for future monitoring and management programs for oiled sandy beaches.
ISSN: 0025-326X

hal-01122779
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01122779
DOI : 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.06.040

Éditeur(s) : Actes de colloques. Ifremer Brest [ACTES COLLOQ. IFREMER.]. 1986
Résumé : A bacteriological monitoring program has been established in order to evaluate the impact of oil activities. The ratio of heterotrophic-hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria was used to follow the evolution in time of both populations. Numerical taxonomic methods were employed in order to define ecotypes of marine oil degraders.
L'impact des activités pétrolières a été mesuré grâce à une étude systématique de la structure des populations hétérotrophes dégradant le pétrole. L'indice bactéries dégradant le pétrole - bactéries hétérotrophes (saprophytes) a été employé pour suivre quantitativement l'évolution dans le temps de ces populations. Des méthodes de taxonomie numérique ont été appliquées afin de constituer des écotypes bactériens des souches capables de dégrader le pétrole en mer.

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1984/acte-1019.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1019/

Éditeur(s) : Elsevier
Résumé : In situ microbialites occurring in reef rocks dredged between 80 and 130 in water depth on the modern fore-reef slopes of Tahiti and the Marquesas islands yield ages ranging from 17,100 2900 to 4410 2250 years BP, suggesting that they played a prominent role during the last deglacial sea level rise. Microbialites developed in both shallow and deep water depositional environments where they characterize various zones of the reef tracts (reef crests, upper reef slopes, deep fore-reef slopes), reflecting contrasting scenarios of microbialite development involving ''reefal microbialites'' in shallow-water settings and ''slope microbialites'' that formed in environments deeper than 1020 in and extending down to more than 100 m. Reefal microbialites correspond to a late stage of encrustation of the dead parts of coral colonies, or more commonly, of related encrusting organisms (red algae and foraminifers), thus forming surface crusts. Slope microbialites generally form the ultimate stage of a biological succession indicating a deepening sequence, whereby shallow water corals and associated encrusting organisms are replaced by deeper water assemblages of red algae and foraminifers before microbialite growth. The precipitation of phosphatic-iron-manganese crusts and the deposition of planktonic micritic limestones on the microbialites characterize a deepening-upward sequence. The widespread development of microbialites in reef sequences from the Last Deglaciation characterizes a period of environmental degradation consequential oil the rapid sea-level rise and abrupt climatic changes of that time. The reported biological succession reflects changes in water quality, and especially an increase in nutrients. In shallow-water settings, increased alkalinity and nutrient availability in interstitial waters were related to surface fluxes and terrestrial groundwater seepage while slope environments were exposed to continuous upwelling of nutrient-rich deeper waters during the last deglacial sea level rise. The age differences between corals and overlying slope microbialites range from 1600 to 8400 years, based on high-precision U-series age measurements of both corals and microbialites, and indicates that a significant time (several thousand years) elapsed between the development of the coralgal frameworks and the growth of slope microbialite crusts. Microbialites cannot be considered as part of the drowning event some 14,000 years ago that resulted in the demise of reef frameworks in the 90-110 m present depth range, but are Substantially younger. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Sedimentary Geology (0037-0738) (Elsevier), 2006-03 , Vol. 185 , N. 3-4 , P. 277-295

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-4204.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.018
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4204/

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : La dégradation de l’arganeraie fait toujours l’objet d’un débat acharné et éclairé d’un intérêt considérable de la part du public, de la presse et des milieux universitaires. Plusieurs études ont été faites pour trouver des explications et des solutions à ce phénomène. La majorité des résultats de ces travaux avancent les conséquences négatives de l’élevage caprin sur l’écosystème arganeraie dont la réduction de la surface est importante et a tendance à s’accélérer sans être compensée spontanément parce que la régénération naturelle de l’arganier ne s’effectue plus, et ceci en raison de plusieurs facteurs : urbanisation, sécheresses, cultures intensives et extensives sous les arbres en plaine et sur les plateaux (en irrigué et en bour), et surtout, selon ces études, le surpâturage par les éleveurs de chèvres. Dans cette étude, nous n’allons pas jauger le bien-fondé de ces résultats. Cependant, l’argument et l’hypothèse que nous choisissons sont que la conjugaison du surpâturage avec d’autres facteurs parmi lesquels, essentiellement, le succès récent de l’huile d’argane à l’étranger, va bousculer les savoirs écologiques liés au troupeau et à sa conduite dans l’arganeraie. Cela entraîner leur forte érosion et contribue à déstabiliser l’équilibre séculaire de ce système agraire articulé autour de trois productions : l’arganier (argane), la culture d’orge (tomzine) et l’élevage de petits ruminants, surtout la chèvre (taghate).
The degradation of the arganeraie is always the object of a debate relentless and lit by a considerable interest on behalf of the public, of the press and by the university circles. Several studies have been made to find explanations and solutions to this phenomenon. The majority of the results of this work suggest the negative consequences of goat farming on the argan ecosystem including the reduction of the surface is important and tends to accelerate and is no longer compensated spontaneously because the natural regeneration of argan no longer takes place and this because of several factors: urbanization; droughts; intensive and extensive crops under trees in the plains and plateaus (irrigated and rainfed), and most importantly, according to these studies, overgrazing by goat herders. In this study, we will not assess the validity of these results. However, our argument and the assumption that we choose is that the combination of overgrazing with other factors among which retain essentially the recent success of argan oil abroad will upset the ecological knowledge related to herd and conduct in the argan tree and cause them severe erosion, destabilizing secular equilibrium of the agrarian system that revolves around three productions: argan (argan), the barley crop (tomzine) and breeding small ruminants especially goats (taghate).
Maroc

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.10342
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/10342