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Blévin P., Chastel O., Angelier F., Bech C., Bustamante P., Bustnes J.o., Herzke D., Goutte A., Jouanneau W., Krogseth I.s., Léandri-breton D.j., Moe B., Sagerup K., Sebastiano M., Stople T., Tartu S., Eulaers I., Gabrielsen G.w. (2022). Temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants in a high Arctic seabird over 15 years: influenced by climate variability and dietary plasticity?.
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Brice Temime Roussel, Meeta Cesler-Maloney, Benjamin Chazeau, Amna Ijaz, Natalie Brett, Katharine Law, Slimane Bekki, Jingqiu Mao, Damien Ketcherside, Vanessa Selimovic, Lu Hu, William R. Simpson, Barbara D'Anna. (2022). Concentrations and Sources of VOCs during wintertime urban pollution at Fairbanks, Alaska (Vol. 2022).
Abstract: Fairbanks, Alaska is an urban area that has multiple local emission sources including power plants, domestic heating, and mobile sources, leading to severe wintertime pollution events during cold stable episodes where strong temperature inversions limit pollutant dispersion. In order to evaluate the individual contribution of these sources on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) concentrations, ground-based measurements were carried out at high temporal resolution (2 minutes) using on-line instrumentation (Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer: PTR-ToF-MS) during the winter 2022 in downtown Fairbanks as part of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) 2022 field experiment. These measurements are recorded in the urban business district, which probably enhances the traffic component compared to domestic heating. From the detailed analysis of the mass spectra acquired in the 0-500 amu range, more than 330 ions were found of interest for further investigation. Source apportionment analysis was performed using Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) resolved with the multilinear engine (ME-2) approach. Based on their mass spectral profiles, diurnal cycles and correlation with external collocated measurements (gaseous pollutants: CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, ozone, and specific particulate matter markers), the factors identified could be related to mobile sources (gasoline-like and diesel-like traffic), to heating (residential, diesel-like heating in addition to a couple of specific biomass burning, and to non-combustion sources attributed to secondary processes. This study contributes to the Air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies – Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (PACES-ALPACA) initiative. The French contribution is part of the CASPA (Climate-relevant Aerosol Sources and Processes in the Arctic)/IPEV project.
Programme: 1215
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Bruyant, F., Amiraux, R., Amyot, M. P., Archambault, P., Artigue, L., Bardedo de Freitas, L., ...Fort, J.,... & Babin, M. (2022). The Green Edge cruise: Understanding the onset, life and fate of the Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom.
Abstract: The Green Edge project was designed to investigate the onset, life and fate of a phytoplankton spring bloom (PSB) in the Arctic Ocean. The lengthening of the ice-free period and the warming of seawater, amongst other factors, have induced major changes in arctic ocean biology over the last decades. Because the PSB is at the base of the Arctic Ocean food chain, it is crucial to understand how changes in the arctic environment will affect it. Green Edge was a large multidisciplinary collaborative project bringing researchers and technicians from 28 different institutions in seven countries, together aiming at understanding these changes and their impacts into the future. The fieldwork for the Green Edge project took place over two years (2015 and 2016) and was carried out from both an ice-camp and a research vessel in the Baffin Bay, canadian arctic. This paper describes the sampling strategy and the data set obtained from the research cruise, which took place aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Amundsen in spring 2016. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17882/59892 (Massicotte et al., 2019a).
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C. A. Bost, K. Delord, Y. Cherel, C. M. Miskelly, A. Carravieri, P. Bustamante, J. P. Y. Arnould, A. Fromant. (2022). Foraging trips and isotopic niche of chick-rearing South Georgian diving petrels from the Kerguelen Islands (Vol. 689). Bachelor's thesis, , .
Abstract: Seabirds are central place foragers, relying on prey that is patchily distributed and of variable predictability. Species travelling at a high energetic cost are more strongly dependent on spatially predictable prey. This is the case for diving petrels Pelecanoides spp., which are small Procellariiformes that feed by pursuit diving and travel by flapping constantly. Despite their abundance and importance as zooplankton consumers, information on the foraging strategy of diving petrels is still lacking. The detailed at-sea movements and the trophic niche of the South Georgian diving petrel P. georgicus was investigated for the first time using miniaturized GPS and the stable isotope method, respectively. Overall, South Georgian diving petrels from the Kerguelen Islands performed unexpected, direct and long-distance trips (mean foraging range: 191-217 km) to the Antarctic Polar Front, south of the archipelago. This foraging ground is a productive and predictable area, where the birds stopped and fed at the distal part of their trip. Blood isotopic values indicate that the tracked birds fed consistently on macrozooplankton. Such a distant oceanic feeding strategy contrasts with the coastal foraging patterns of the closely related common diving petrel P. urinatrix. Commuting to a more distant but easily accessible resource allows South Georgian diving petrels to cope with their high commuting costs, and to segregate spatially from the sympatric common diving petrel during the breeding season.
Keywords: At-sea distribution Pelecanoides georgicus Procellariiformes Southern Ocean Trophic niche
Programme: 109,394
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Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Bize, Rudy Boonstra, F. Stephen Dobson, François Criscuolo, Vincent A. Viblanc. (2022). Effects of the social environment on vertebrate fitness and health in nature: Moving beyond the stress axis (Vol. 145).
Abstract: Social interactions are a ubiquitous feature of the lives of vertebrate species. These may be cooperative or competitive, and shape the dynamics of social systems, with profound effects on individual behavior, physiology, fitness, and health. On one hand, a wealth of studies on humans, laboratory animal models, and captive species have focused on understanding the relationships between social interactions and individual health within the context of disease and pathology. On the other, ecological studies are attempting an understanding of how social interactions shape individual phenotypes in the wild, and the consequences this entails in terms of adaptation. Whereas numerous studies in wild vertebrates have focused on the relationships between social environments and the stress axis, much remains to be done in understanding how socially-related activation of the stress axis coordinates other key physiological functions related to health. Here, we review the state of our current knowledge on the effects that social interactions may have on other markers of vertebrate fitness and health. Building upon complementary findings from the biomedical and ecological fields, we identify 6 key physiological functions (cellular metabolism, oxidative stress, cellular senescence, immunity, brain function, and the regulation of biological rhythms) which are intimately related to the stress axis, and likely directly affected by social interactions. Our goal is a holistic understanding of how social environments affect vertebrate fitness and health in the wild. Whereas both social interactions and social environments are recognized as important sources of phenotypic variation, their consequences on vertebrate fitness, and the adaptive nature of social-stress-induced phenotypes, remain unclear. Social flexibility, or the ability of an animal to change its social behavior with resulting changes in social systems in response to fluctuating environments, has emerged as a critical underlying factor that may buffer the beneficial and detrimental effects of social environments on vertebrate fitness and health.
Keywords: Dominance Epigenetics Hierarchies HPA Social buffers Social determinants of health
Programme: 119
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Catherine Larose, Lorrie Maccario, Timothy M. Vogel. (2022). Microbiology of the Cryosphere: Diversity, Habitat Constraints and Ecology (Vol. Volume 3).
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Charlène Guillaumot, Jonathan Belmaker, Yehezkel Buba, Damien Fourcy, Philippe Dubois, Bruno Danis, Eline Le Moan, Thomas Saucède. (2022). Classic or hybrid? The performance of next generation ecological models to study the response of Southern Ocean species to changing environmental conditions (Vol. 28). Bachelor's thesis, , .
Abstract: Aim In the context of intensifying threats of climate change on marine communities, ecological models are widely applied for conservation strategies, though polar studies remain scarce given the limited number of datasets available. Correlative (e.g. species distribution models, SDM) and mechanistic (e.g. dynamic energy budget models, DEB) modelling approaches are usually used independently in studies. Using both approaches in integrative, hybrid models could help to better estimate the species potential ecological niche, as mechanistic and correlative models complement each other very well, giving more insights into species potential response to fast-changing environmental conditions. Location The study focusses on the Baie du Morbihan, a silled basin located in the east of the Kerguelen Islands (sub-Antarctic). Methods A hybrid, correlative-mechanistic model was implemented to predict the response of the endemic sea urchin Abatus cordatus (Verrill, 1876). We compared the performances of classic and integrated approaches to predict A. cordatus distribution according to two dates representing seasonal contrasts. Two integrated approaches were studied and performed by either (1) including the spatial projection of the DEB model as an input layer inside the SDM (‘integrated SDM-DEB’) or (2) using a Bayesian procedure to use DEB model outputs as priors of the SDM (‘integrated Bayesian’ approach). Results Results show higher performances of ‘integrated Bayesian’ approaches to evaluate A. cordatus potential ecological niche compared with ‘classic’ and ‘integrated SDM-DEB’ methods. The influence of environmental conditions on model predictions is further captured with these Bayesian procedures and better highlights the environmental influence on the species-predicted distribution. Model performance is good for the different simulations, and uncertainty in predictions is well-highlighted. Main conclusions The good performances of ‘integrated Bayesian’ approaches to estimate species potential ecological niche opens perspectives for future applications to a broad panel of natural examples, noteworthy for decision-making and conservation management purposes.
Keywords: Bayesian inference data-poor systems integrated approaches Kerguelen Islands sea urchin species distribution modelling
Programme: 688,1044
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Charles Cantoni. (2022). Effect of thermal stress on the reproductive success and on the physiology of Anatalanta aptera. .
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Christoph Kittel, Xavier Fettweis, Ghislain Picard, Noel Gourmelen. (2022). Assimilation of satellite-derived melt extent increases melt simulated by MAR over the Amundsen sector (West Antarctica) (Vol. 78).
Abstract: La fonte de surface sur les plateformes de glace en Antarctique est l'une des plus grandes incertitudes liées à l'augmentation du niveau de la mer pendant le 21e siècle. Cependant, les modèles climatiques actuels peinent encore à la représenter avec précision, ce qui limite la compréhension des processus expliquant sa variabilité spatiale et temporelle et ses conséquences sur la stabilité de l’inlandsis de l’Antarctique. Les progrès récents de surveillance de la Terre grâce aux satellites ont permis de créer de nouvelles estimations de l'étendue de la fonte en Antarctique. Ceux-ci peuvent détecter si et où la fonte se produit, tandis que la quantité d'eau de fonte produite ne peut par contre être déduite que de simulations climatiques. Afin de combiner les avantages des deux outils, nous présentons de nouvelles estimations de la fonte basées sur un modèle climatique régional assimilant l'étendue de la fonte dérivée des satellites. Cela améliore la comparaison entre les estimations du modèle et du satellite, ouvrant ainsi la voie à une ré-estimation de la quantité de fonte produite chaque année à la surface de l'ensemble de l'inlandsis de l’Antarctique.
Programme: 1110
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Clara Leistenschneider, Céline Le Bohec, Olaf Eisen, Aymeric Houstin, Simon Neff, Sebastian Primpke, Daniel P. Zitterbart, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Gunnar Gerdts. (2022). No evidence of microplastic ingestion in emperor penguin chicks (Aptenodytes forsteri) from the Atka Bay colony (Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica) (Vol. 851).
Abstract: Microplastic (<5 mm; MP) pollution has been an emerging threat for marine ecosystems around the globe with increasing evidence that even the world's most remote areas, including Antarctica, are no longer unaffected. Few studies however, have examined MP in Antarctic biota, and especially those from Antarctic regions with low human activity, meaning little is known about the extent to which biota are affected. The aim of this study was to investigate, for the first time, the occurrence of MP in the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), the only penguin species breeding around Antarctica during the austral winter, and an endemic apex predator in the Southern Ocean. To assess MP ingestion, the gizzards of 41 emperor penguin chicks from Atka Bay colony (Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica), were dissected and analyzed for MP >500 μm using Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier-transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. A total of 85 putative particles, mostly in the shape of fibers (65.9 %), were sorted. However, none of the particles were identified as MP applying state-of-the-art methodology. Sorted fibers were further evidenced to originate from contamination during sample processing and analyses. We find that MP concentrations in the local food web of the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land coastal and marginal sea-ice regions; the feeding grounds to chick-rearing emperor penguin adults, are currently at such low levels that no detectable biomagnification is occurring via trophic transfer. Being in contrast to MP studies on other Antarctic and sub-Antarctic penguin species, our comparative discussion including these studies, highlights the importance for standardized procedures for sampling, sample processing and analyses to obtain comparable results. We further discuss other stomach contents and their potential role for MP detection, as well as providing a baseline for the long-term monitoring of MP in apex predator species from this region.
Keywords: Antarctica ATR-FTIR Microplastics Stomach content Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land
Programme: 137
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