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The length-weight relationship of 29 marine fish species form Reunion Island (SW Indian Ocean) belonging to 14 families were computed. Data from 5,340 individuals were used for this purpose. Fish were sampled using different techniques, mainly with rotenone poisoning on coral reef flats, beach seine and handlines on shallow coastal bays, and longline fishing in the nearby open sea.

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The effect of decreasing aragonite saturation state (Omega Arag) of seawater (elevated pCO2) on calcification rates of Acropora muricata was studied using nubbins prepared from parent colonies located at two sites of La Saline reef (La Réunion Island, western Indian Ocean): a back-reef site (BR) affected by nutrient-enriched groundwater discharge (mainly nitrate), and a reef flat site (RF) with low terrigenous inputs. Protein and chlorophyll a content of the nubbins, as well as zooxanthellae abundance, were lower at RF than BR. Nubbins were incubated at ~27°C over 2 h under sunlight, in filtered seawater manipulated to get differing initial pCO2 (1,440-340 µatm), Omega Arag (1.4-4.0), and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations (2,100-1,850 µmol/kg). Increasing DIC concentrations at constant total alkalinity (AT) resulted in a decrease in Omega Arag and an increase in pCO2. AT at the beginning of the incubations was kept at a natural level of 2,193 ± 6 µmol/kg (mean ± SD). Net photosynthesis (NP) and calcification were calculated from changes in pH and AT during the incubations. Calcification decrease in response to doubling pCO2 relative to preindustrial level was 22% for RF nubbins. When normalized to surface area of the nubbins, (1) NP and calcification were higher at BR than RF, (2) NP increased in high pCO2 treatments at BR compared to low pCO2 treatments, and (3) calcification was not related to Omega Arag at BR. When normalized to NP, calcification was linearly related to Omega Arag at both sites, and the slopes of the relationships were not significantly different. The increase in NP at BR in the high pCO2 treatments may have increased calcification and thus masked the negative effect of low Omega Arag on calcification. Removing the effect of NP variations at BR showed that calcification declined in a similar manner with decreased Omega Arag (increased pCO2) whatever the nutrient loading.

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The effect of decreasing aragonite saturation state (Omega Arag) of seawater (elevated pCO2) on calcification rates of Acropora muricata was studied using nubbins prepared from parent colonies located at two sites of La Saline reef (La Réunion Island, western Indian Ocean): a back-reef site (BR) affected by nutrient-enriched groundwater discharge (mainly nitrate), and a reef flat site (RF) with low terrigenous inputs. Protein and chlorophyll a content of the nubbins, as well as zooxanthellae abundance, were lower at RF than BR. Nubbins were incubated at ~27°C over 2 h under sunlight, in filtered seawater manipulated to get differing initial pCO2 (1,440-340 µatm), Omega Arag (1.4-4.0), and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations (2,100-1,850 µmol/kg). Increasing DIC concentrations at constant total alkalinity (AT) resulted in a decrease in Omega Arag and an increase in pCO2. AT at the beginning of the incubations was kept at a natural level of 2,193 ± 6 µmol/kg (mean ± SD). Net photosynthesis (NP) and calcification were calculated from changes in pH and AT during the incubations. Calcification decrease in response to doubling pCO2 relative to preindustrial level was 22% for RF nubbins. When normalized to surface area of the nubbins, (1) NP and calcification were higher at BR than RF, (2) NP increased in high pCO2 treatments at BR compared to low pCO2 treatments, and (3) calcification was not related to Omega Arag at BR. When normalized to NP, calcification was linearly related to Omega Arag at both sites, and the slopes of the relationships were not significantly different. The increase in NP at BR in the high pCO2 treatments may have increased calcification and thus masked the negative effect of low Omega Arag on calcification. Removing the effect of NP variations at BR showed that calcification declined in a similar manner with decreased Omega Arag (increased pCO2) whatever the nutrient loading.

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To assess the contribution of soft-bottoms to the carbon cycle in coral reefs, the net community production (p) was measured in winter at 3 stations on La Saline inner reef flat (Reunion Island). Changes in pH and total alkalinity at different irradiances (I) were assessed using benthic chambers (0.2 m2) during a 1-h incubation. Mean grain size, the silt and clay load and chlorophyll a content of the sediments were analysed in each chamber. Daily community production (P), gross community production (Pg) and community respiration (R) were estimated from p-I curves and daily irradiance variations (PAR, 400-700 nm). Sediment characteristics and chlorophyll a contents did not differ between the three sites, except for the silt and clay fraction at one station. R being higher than Pg (84.88 ± 7.36 and -62.29 ± 3.34 mmolC m-2 d-1 respectively), P value reached 22.59 ± 5.66 mmolC m-2 d-1. The sediments were therefore heterotrophic with a mean Pg/R lower than 1 (0.74 ± 0.05) and appear to be a carbon source. Our data suggested the importance of the degradation process in the functioning of near-reef sediments.

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La faune et la flore de l’île de La Réunion atteignent un niveau d’endémisme très élevé avec le tiers de sa surface encore recouverte par des forêts naturelles. Ces conditions exceptionnelles ont favorisé, en 2007, la création du Parc National de La Réunion qui couvre 40 % du territoire. Parmi les différentes atteintes à l’environnement dans les aires du Parc national, le braconnage est devenu, au cours des deux dernières décennies, un phénomène très préoccupant pour les différents acteurs locaux et régionaux qui s’occupent de la gestion de ce problème. Plusieurs espèces braconnées sont actuellement menacées et les dégâts occasionnés par les braconniers sont visibles dans le paysage réunionnais. Ce projet de recherche vise à répondre à la question de recherche suivante : De quelle façon se manifeste le braconnage (les motivations, la fréquence, les techniques, les lieux) dans le Parc national de La Réunion et comment les différents acteurs réagissent-ils face à la pratique du braconnage? La méthodologie de cette recherche repose sur une démarche combinant l’approche exploratoire et l’étude de cas. Les données qualitatives et quantitatives que nous avons utilisées pour cette étude ont été collectées par une recherche bibliographique, une collection de données statistiques, et par des entrevues (exploratoires, semi-dirigées, individuelles non-structurées) réalisées sur le terrain. Les résultats obtenus nous ont permis de constater que le braconnage à La Réunion est un phénomène ancré dans la culture locale et une conséquence directe du contexte économique actuel. Notre recherche a relevé deux catégories de braconniers : les braconniers occasionnels (touristes et braconniers du dimanche) et les braconniers professionnels. Le braconnage de type occasionnel est très largement répandu dans la population, car il s’inscrit dans une continuité des traditions. Le braconnage de type professionnel où le braconnier prélève de façon systématique dans la nature à des fins monétaires, est pratiqué par peu de gens, mais il occasionne de lourdes pertes contrairement au braconnage de type occasionnel. Les différentes méthodes mises en place par les divers acteurs impliqués dans la gestion du braconnage ont été répertoriées et examinées. Tandis que le poinçonnage des plants de vanille et le marquage des tangues sont efficaces, la délation des braconniers et les visites éducatives restent des pistes à explorer, et les conférences rééducatives des braconniers ainsi que la vente de permis de chasse au tangue ont démontré une faible efficacité. Des recommandations pour améliorer la dynamique entre les acteurs impliqués dans la gestion du braconnage ont été données par plusieurs de ces acteurs interrogés au cours de cette recherche.

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Strontium, neodymium, and lead isotope ratios are reported for 13 Leg 115 basalts as well as 3 basalts from Texaco drill hole SM-1 on the Mascarene Plateau. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios and eNd range from 0.70330 to 0.70439 and 5.5 to 7.4, respectively, although 87Sr/86Sr ratios higher than 0.70383 are found only in SM-1 basalts. The high 87Sr/86Sr values are thought to reflect seawater Sr in secondary phases, although all samples were strongly leached in HC1 before analysis. 206Pb/204Pb ratios range from 18.53 to 18.80, and sho high 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb ratios relative to 206Pb/204Pb ratios, typical of Indian Ocean mid-ocean ridge (MORB) and oceanic-island basalts (OIB). Isotopic compositions of Leg 115 basalts generally fall between fields for MORB and Reunion Island basalts, consistent with the conclusion drawn from geochronological studies that Deccan flood basalt volcanism, the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge, and the Mascarene Plateau are all products of the Reunion mantle plume. Isotopic compositions of magmas produced by this plume have varied systematically with time in the direction of less "depleted," less MORB-like isotopic signatures. This compositional change has been accompanied by a decrease in eruption rate. We interpret Deccan volcanism as the voluminous beginning of the plume. Reduced entrainment of asthenosphere following melting of the plume head resulted in less MORB-like isotope ratios in magmas and a decrease in eruptive activity with time.

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Basement rocks were recovered at four sites on Leg 115 along the Reunion hotspot track in the western Indian Ocean. Plate tectonic reconstructions indicate that the drilled structures formed in three different volcanic environments. Sites 706 and 713 from the eastern side of the Saya de Malha Bank and the northern end of the Chagos Bank, respectively, are on a large volcanic platform analogous to Iceland on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Lavas at Site 707 on the northwestern side of the Saya de Malha Bank erupted during the early stages of rifting of the Seychelles from India. Basalts from Site 715 were erupted onto an isolated oceanic island that was distant from ocean ridges and continents much as Reunion Island is today. Many of the rocks were examined in thin section and found to be primarily augite-plagioclase basalts with minor olivine and rare opaque oxides. Site 715 is unusual in that it contains a variety of basalts including olivine-rich and aphyric Fe-Ti basalts. At each of the four sites the rocks were grouped into chemical types (units) on the basis of ship- board bulk-rock analyses and at least one thin section from each chemical unit was analyzed by electron microprobe. The plagioclase and augite chemistry reflects the bulk-rock chemistry and, in general, these minerals were in equilibrium with their host magmas at the time the basalts were quenched. Olivine was rarely preserved, but where it is still present it also appears to have crystallized in equilibrium with the host magma. At three of the drill sites plagioclase phenocrysts or megacrysts that crystallized from a primitive magma are also present. The one site (715) that does not contain these primitive plagioclase phenocrysts is also the site that appears to have been influenced the least by ocean- ridge or Deccan-type magmas. Site 715, furthermore, has a mineralogy that is dominated by olivine as compared with the plagioclase-rich lavas of the other sites.

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Concordant plateau and isochron ages were calculated from 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating experiments on volcanic rocks recovered by drilling at four Leg 115 sites and two industry wells along the volcanic lineament connecting Reunion Island to the Deccan flood basalts, western Indian Ocean. The new ages provide unequivocal evidence that volcanic activity migrated southward along this sequence of linear ridges. The geometry and age distribution of volcanism are most compatible with origin above a stationary hotspot centered beneath Reunion. The hotspot became active with rapid eruption of the Deccan flood basalts, western India, and subsequent volcanic products record the northward motion of the Indian and African plates over the hotspot through Tertiary time. The radiometric ages are in general accord with basal biostratigraphic age estimates, although some adjustments in current magnetobiostratigraphic time scales may be required.

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Die grafische Darstellung des Verbundquerschnittes mit einer oberen Betonplatte und einem darunter liegenden Stahlträger war seit seiner Vorstellung in den 1950er Jahren ein Symbol, das weit über die Theorie hinausging und weite Verbreitung in der Praxis des Verbundbrückenbaus fand. Seit den 1970er bzw. 1980er Jahren hat dieses Bild – bedingt durch neue und freiere Formen, Beton und Stahl miteinander zu kombinieren – seine Symbolhaftigkeit verloren. In Deutschland und Spanien wurde der Doppelverbund mit unten liegenden Betonplatten in Bereichen mit negativen Momenten eingeführt, in Frankreich werden Stahlträger auch in vorgespannten Betonquerschnitten eingebettet. Beide Ansätze haben dazu beigetragen, dass in der Gegenwart die Materialien Stahl und Beton im Verbundbau frei miteinander kombiniert werden können. On the development of sections in composite bridges. A comprehensive theory of composite construction was established in Germany by Sattler in 1953. The theoretical image of the composite section with a superior concrete slab and a lower metallic structure was shaped in addition to the analytical resolution. Theory and graphical representation were going to be known together in Europe. This figure was repeated in all theoretical and academic publications, so becoming an authentic icon of the composite section. Its translation to the bridge deck in flexion was obvious: the superior slab defines the tread platform, while the metallic structure was left off-hook at the bottom. Nevertheless, in continuous decks the section is not optimal at all in zones of negative bending moments. But the overcoming of the graphical representation of the theory did not happen immediately. It was produced after a process in which several European countries played an active role and where different mechanisms of technological transference were developed. One approach to this overcoming is the “double composite action”, with a lower concrete slab in areas of a negative bending moment. The first accomplishments, a bridge in Orasje built in 1968 with 134 m span, as well as the publications of the system proposed by Fabrizio de Miranda in 1971 did not extend nor had continuity. Spanish bridges by Fernández Ordoñez and Martínez Calzón used double composite action for the first time in 1979. The German team of Leonhard, Andrä und partners, has used it since the end of the 1980's to solve bridges of great span. Once the technology has been well known thanks to the ASCE International Congress and the Spanish International Meetings organised by the “Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos”, double composite action has been integrated well into the structural vocabulary everywhere. In France the approach was different. What Michel Virlogeux calls “double floor composite section” was reached as an evolution of prestressed concrete bridges. In an experimental process widely known, the external prestressing allows weight reduction by diminishing the thickness of the concrete webs. The following step, in the 1980's, was the substitution of the webs by metallic elements: stiffened plates, trusses or folded plates. A direct result of this development is the Brass de la Plaine Bridge in the Reunion Island in 2001 with 280 m span. Both approaches have contributed to a freedom of design in composite construction in steel and concrete today.

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Leg 115 of the Ocean Drilling Program recovered basalts from four locations along the hotspot track that leads from the Deccan flood basalts in India to Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean (Sites 706, 707, 713, and 715). The drilled basalts range in age from 35 Ma (Site 706) to 64 Ma (Site 707), and including the Deccan basalts (66 to 68 Ma), Mauritius Island (0.2 to 8 Ma), and Reunion Island (0 to 2 Ma), seven sites are provided for sampling the volcanic record of the 5000-km-long hotspot track. Chemical and age comparisons indicate that Site 707 lavas correlate with basalt units near the top of the Deccan flood basalt sequence. The lavas of Site 715 (55 to 60 Ma) are most similar to the islands of Mauritius and Reunion. Site 713 basalts (48 Ma) are similar to the earliest lavas of the Deccan province, and Site 706 basalts are intermediate in chemistry between those of central Indian spreading-ridge basalts and Reunion. Differences in lava compositions along the hotspot track can be related to variable mixing of plume and asthenospheric mantle, depending on the changing position of spreading-ridge segments and the hotspot during the opening of the Indian Ocean. Alternatively, time-dependent changes in the composition of hotspot melts may be due to a decrease in partial melting of a heterogeneous plume or to intrinsic changes in the composition of material supplied by the plume.

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The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

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In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian fables as clues to resolve a set of linguistic, historical, literary, and geographical enigmas pertaining the ‘birth-place(s)’ of Creolophone Literatures in the Caribbean Sea, North and South America, as well as the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the fables in Martinique (1846), Reunion Island (1826), and Mauritius (1822), my thesis should read be as an attempt capture the links between these islands through the creation of a particular archive defined as a cartulary-chronicle, a diplomatic codex, or simply a map in which I chart and trace the flight of the founding documents relating to the lives of the individual authors, editors, and printers in order to illustrate the articulation of a formal and informal confederation that enabled the global and local institutional promotion of Creole Literature. While I integrate various genres and multi-polar networks between the authors of this 19th century canon comprised of sacred and secular texts such as proclamations, catechisms, and proverbs, the principle literary genre charted in my thesis are collections of fables inspired by French 17th century French Classical fabulist, Jean de la Fontaine. Often described as the ‘matrix’ of Creolophone Literature, these blues and fables constitute the base of the canon, and are usually described as either ‘translated,’ ‘adapted,’ and even ‘cross-dressed’ into Creole in all of the French Creolophone spaces. My documentation of their transnational sprouting offers proof of an opaque canonical formation of Creole popular literature. By constituting this archive, I emphasize the fact that despite 200 years of critical reception and major developments and discoveries on behalf of Creole language pedagogues, literary scholars, linguists, historians, librarians, archivist, and museum curators, up until now not only have none have curated this literature as a formal canon. I also offer new empirical evidence in order to try and solve the enigma of “How?” the fables materially circulated between the islands, and seek to come to terms with the anonymous nature of the texts, some of which were published under pseudonyms. I argue that part of the confusion on the part of scholars has been the result of being willfully taken by surprise or defrauded by the authors, or ‘bamboozled’ as I put it. The major paradigmatic shift in my thesis is that while I acknowledge La Fontaine as the base of this literary canon, I ultimately bypass him to trace the ancient literary genealogy of fables to the infamous Aesop the Phrygian, whose biography – the first of a slave in the history of the world – and subsequent use of fables reflects a ‘hidden transcript’ of ‘masked political critique’ between ‘master and slave classes’ in the 4th Century B.C.E. Greece.

This archive draws on, connects and critiques the methodologies of several disciplinary fields. I use post-colonial literary studies to map the literary genealogies Aesop; use a comparative historical approach to the abolitions of slavery in both the 19th century Caribbean and the Indian Ocean; and chart the early appearance of folk music in early colonial societies through Musicology and Performance Studies. Through the use of Sociolinguistics and theories of language revival, ecology, and change, I develop an approach of ‘reflexive Creolistics’ that I ultimately hope will offer new educational opportunities to Creole speakers. While it is my desire that this archive serves linguists, book collectors, and historians for further scientific inquiry into the innate international nature of Creole language, I also hope that this innovative material defense and illustration of Creole Literature will transform the consciousness of Creolophones (native and non-native) who too remain ‘bamboozled’ by the archive. My goal is to erase the ‘unthinkability’ of the existence of this ancient maritime creole literary canon from the collective cultural imaginary of readers around the globe.

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The implementation of the WFD in the French overseas takes into account local, morphological, climatic and socioeconomic peculiarities, as well as specificities of their ecosystems. This document provide an up-to-date assessment of the state of characteristics of the coastal water bodies, of development of indicators and of WFD monitoring programs in each of the French overseas departments: Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Reunion Island and Mayotte.

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L'usage de la ligne à main mécanisée (moulinet électrique) s'est développé à La Réunion au cours des années 2000. Ce métier s’est développé à la suite d’une campagne de prospection des ressources halieutiques profondes (200-700m), menée conjointement par le CRPMEM et l’Ifremer en 2000. L’objectif de cette campagne par pêche au moulinet électrique visait à identifier de nouvelles ressources démersales à des fins de diversification pour la petite pêche artisanale côtière professionnelle réunionnaise. Ainsi, les premiers résultats de cette étude avaient mis en évidence l'existence de nouvelles espèces et des stocks encore peu exploités à l’époque. Leur exploitation par la pêche professionnelle mais aussi par la pêche plaisancière s’est dès lors développée rapidement, sans aucun contrôle. En l’absence de cadre juridique et de mesures de gestion appropriés, la baisse rapide des rendements et les conflits pour l’accès à ces ressources profondes limitées et réputées sensibles à l’exploitation avaient motivé un précédent projet d'étude pour caractériser l’état de ces ressources (ANCRE-DMX, nommé DMX1, Ifremer 2011). Ce premier diagnostic réalisé à peine 10 ans après le début de l’exploitation des principales espèces avait mis en évidence des premiers signes d’une exploitation non soutenable des ressources dans l'ouest et le nord de La Réunion. Il avait été alors préconisé de lever des lacunes importantes concernant la biologie et l’écologie des espèces, d’évaluer l’état de ces stocks et enfin, de définir des indicateurs biologiques et halieutiques permettant de suivre l’évolution de ces différents stocks. En effet, les stocks de poissons démersaux profonds sont connus pour leur vulnérabilité (croissance lente, maturité sexuelle tardive, recrutement aléatoire…), et ce d’autant plus que leurs habitats sont particulièrement restreints à La Réunion. Le présent projet DMX2 a donc eu pour principal objectif d’établir, à partir d’une approche « indicateur », les bases des connaissances halieutiques, biologiques et écologiques manquantes sur les 6 principales espèces ciblées par la pêcherie à la ligne mécanisée. Le plan d’échantillonnage mis en place a couvert des profondeurs comprises entre 80 et 700 mètres, intégrant pour la première fois les zones de transition plus côtières. La période d’échantillonnage s’est déroulée sur un cycle annuel complet, soit d’avril 2014 à mai 2015, avec le concours de 10 pêcheurs professionnels répartis tout autour de l’île. Ainsi, 143 marées ont permis d’échantillonner 3984 individus et plus de 60 espèces différentes. Pour les principales espèces retenues, le suivi des captures en mer et les prélèvements biologiques réalisés ont permis d’appréhender leur rendement, leur structure démographique, leurs relations biométriques, l’étude de leur croissance, leur cycle de reproduction, leur taille de première maturité, la composition relative de leur alimentation ainsi que la variabilité de leur condition corporelle selon les saisons et en fonction des secteurs géographiques de l’île. Pour certaines espèces, les paramètres biologiques et écologiques obtenus n’avaient jamais été étudiés à ce jour. A partir des indicateurs populationnels et bio-écologiques retenus dans le projet, il a été possible d’évaluer l’état de santé des principaux stocks exploités et de les confronter à la situation et à l’évolution de la pêcherie ciblant ces espèces. Sur la base d’une approche de précaution, les diagnostics rendus sont variables selon l’état de santé de chacun des stocks et de leur sensibilité à l’exploitation. L’approche « indicateur » développée dans le cadre de ce projet a été appliquée aux données historiques disponibles. Ces indicateurs seront désormais proposés dans le cadre des suivis qui devront être mis en place dans la définition d’un plan de gestion des ressources démersales profondes à La Réunion. La définition du plan de gestion devra être discutée et validée auprès des différents usagers pêcheurs ainsi que des gestionnaires scientifiques, professionnels et administratifs.