Bonadonna F., Villafane M., Bajzak C. & Jouventin P. (2004). Recognition of burrow’s olfactory signature in blue petrels, Halobaena caerulea: an efficient discrimination mechanism in the dark. Animal behaviour, 67, 893–898.
Abstract: Previous work has shown that blue petrels need olfaction to home. We investigated whether they also recognize an olfactory signature of their own nest. We performed T-maze experiments in which maze arms were connected with the subject bird’s burrow and with the burrow of a conspecific neighbour. Of 23 birds, 16 were able to recognize the arm leading to their own burrow. In a second experiment, we positioned the maze in front of the subject’s burrow but the maze arms were closed and did not enter the burrow. Consequently, no burrow odours could be sensed by the bird. In this case, 85% of birds (17 of 20) failed to choose, suggesting that petrels were not motivated to choose by positional cues in the absence of odour
cues. We explored this idea further by performing a homing experiment whereby homing birds had to relocate an artificially displaced burrow entrance. Blue petrels homed, ignoring the natural burrow entrance and using the new artificial one. The ability to smell their own burrow allows blue petrels to return to the colony at night and to find the correct nest.
Programme: 354
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Senior, C.; Cerisier, J.-C.; Thorolfsson, A.; Lester, M. (2002). Propagation in the ionosphere of convection changes following a sharp interplanetary magnetic field By transition. J. Geophys. Res., 107.
Abstract: The nature of the response of the ionospheric convection to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), either quasi-simultaneous over the polar cap and auroral region or propagating with the flow velocity from the noon sector, remains to be understood. We examine the changes in the ionospheric plasma convection associated with a negative to positive transition in the dawn-dusk component (By) of the IMF. A special mode of operation of the SuperDARN HF radars has been used, which provided both a large field of view and high-resolution convection data on three beams. Close to noon, the most characteristic response concerns the position in magnetic local time (MLT) of the merging gap, the ionospheric footprint of the magnetopause reconnection line, which moves longitudinally with a velocity of 1 km/s. In addition, modifications of the convection, which are indirectly related to this motion, are observed. We attribute them to the “quasi-instantaneous” effect related to the incompressibility of the plasma. Far from noon, in the morning sector, the convection reacts with an intermediate delay, which is neither instantaneous nor compatible with the above propagation velocity. A timing of the transition, based on the IMP 8 and Geotail satellites, located on the dawn flank of the magnetosphere and at the nose of the magnetopause, respectively, indicates that the ionospheric perturbation originates at the impact site of the By transition close to 1300 MLT, with a maximum delay of 3 min after it hits the nose of the magnetopause.
Keywords: 2463 Ionosphere: Plasma convection; 2740 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
Programme: 312;911
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Petit C. (2004). Au Pays des Inuit : Un Film, un Peuple, une Légende, Atanarjuat . Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 29.
Abstract: B. Saladin d’Anglure et Igloolik Isuma Productions Etudes/Inuit/Studies
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Fitoussi C., Duprat J., Tatischeff V., Kiener J., Gounelle M., Raisbeck G., Engrand C., Assunção M., Coc A., Lefebvre A., Porquet M.G., De Serreville N., Thibaud J.P., Yiou F., Bourgeois C., Chabot M., Hammache F.,. (2004). AMS measurement of 24Mg(3He,p)26Al cross section, implications for the 26Al production in the early Solar System. Lunar and planetary science, 35, 1586.
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Maurette M., Brack A., Duprat J., Engrand C. & Kurat G. (2004). High input rates of micrometeoritic sulfur, smoke“ particles and oligo-elements on the early Earth.”. Lunar and planetary science, 35, 1625.
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Duprat J., Engrand C., Maurette M., Gounelle M., Hammer C. & Kurat G. (2003). The CONCORDIA-collection : pristine contemporary micrometeorites from central Antarctica surface snow. Lunar and planetary science, 34, 1727.
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Engrand C., Gounelle M., Zolensky M.E. & Duprat J. (2003). About Tagish Lake as a potential parent body for polar micrometeorites ; clues from their hydrogen isotopic compositions. Lunar and planetary science, 34, 1688.
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Cuillierier R., Duprat J., Maurette M. & Hammer C. (2002). The crucial role of neon to identify cometary micrometeorites from historical and future Leonids showers trapped in Antarctica and Greenland snows. Lunar and planetary science, XXXIII(1519).
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Duprat J., Hammer C., Maurette M., Engrand C., Matrajt G., Immel G., Gounelle M. & Kurat G. (2001). Search for past and future frozen“ Leonid showers in Antarctica and Greenland.”. Lunar and planetary science, XXXII, #1641.
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Duprat J., Engrand C., Gounelle M., Maurette M., Matrajt G., Kurat G. & Brandstätter F. (2001). Search for possible extraterrestrial matter among shiny small iron oxide spherules. Lunar and planetary science, XXXII, #1773.
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