Depuis toujours, le lac Victoria, la plus vaste étendue d'eau douce de l'Afrique tropicale, a nourri des rêves d'aventure et d'exploration. Pourtant, il n'existait jusqu'ici aucune synthèse en langue française concernant son écologie. Ce livre propose, dans un style accessible à tous, d'expliquer l'évolution du lac Victoria, notamment depuis le mil...
Pour que la trame bleue soit fonctionnelle, il est important de diagnostiquer l'effet de la fragmentation des cours d'eau sur les poissons pour restaurer de manière efficace la continuité écologique. Une méthode consiste à utiliser les outils de biotélémétrie pour identifier la capacité des poissons à franchir les ouvrages existants et leurs aménag...
Functional trait theory provides a mechanistic framework to understand change in community composition and community assembly through time and space. Despite this, trait-based approaches have seldom been used in ecological restoration. Succession theory predicts that habitat complexity and resource availability will increase with restoration time, ...
Published in Scientific Reports
The impact of species loss on ecosystems functioning depends on the amount of trait similarity between species, i.e. functional redundancy, but it is also influenced by the order in which species are lost. Here we investigated redundancy and sensitivity patterns across fish assemblages in lakes, rivers and estuaries. Several scenarios of species ex...
Published in Knowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems
The management of lakes requires the definition of physico-chemical thresholds to be used for ecosystem preservation or restoration. According to the European Water Framework Directive, the limits between physico-chemical quality classes must be set consistently with biological quality elements. One way to do this consists in analyzing the response...
We investigate the uplink transmission performance of low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) with regards to coexisting radio modules using LoRa as an example. In doing so we adopt a new topology to model the network where the node locations of the network of focus (LoRa) follow a Poisson cluster process (PCP) while other coexisting interfering radi...
L’évaluation du risque environnemental vise à protéger l’ensemble des écosystèmes des effets néfastes causés par l’exposition à certaines substances chimiques. L’évaluation de l’exposition a pour objectif de quantifier la « dose externe », qui est la quantité d’agent chimique qui atteint un organisme. Au cours des dernières décennies, de nombreux e...
Detailed knowledge on the trophic ecology of marine species is an essential asset for the development of appropriate ecosystem-based management of marine fisheries. In the Sea of Oman, no studies to date have addressed the diet of demersal fish inhabiting soft-bottom habitats, despite the importance of these habitats for local fisheries. This study...
Alterations of species phenology in response to climate change are now unquestionable. Until now, most studies have reported precocious occurrence of life cycle events as a major phenological response. Desynchronizations of biotic interactions, in particular predator-prey relationships, are however assumed to strongly impact ecosystems' functioning...
The complementarity of two high-resolution spatiotemporal acoustic methods, telemetry and hydroacoustics, was evaluated during the same time window to obtain fish distribution in a canyon-shaped reservoir, the Bariousses Reservoir (France). These methods act at an individual scale for telemetry and a community scale for hydroacoustics. The temporal...
