Beyrend-Dur, D. (2010). Life history traits of key brackish copepods from temperate to tropical environments. Ph.D. Thesis, Université de Lille 1, Lille, France and National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan. 259 pp.

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Beyrend-Dur, D.

2010

259 pp.

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http:// https://www.theses.fr/2010LIL10120

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The study of the plankton population dynamics brings new insights on the effects of the global climate change on aquatic ecosystems. However, there is a real need to have a global overview of these effects through inter-site comparisons at appropriate scales. France and Taiwan are two countries located in contrasting climate regimes, respectively temperate and subtropical/tropical. In France, the temperate brackish copepod Eurytemora affinis which is known as key species has been the subject of numerous laboratory and field studies. P. annandalei which is also a dominant brackish copepod but in subtropical/tropical Indo-Pacific regions found in Taiwan, has not been well studied despite its ecological and economical importance. In this thesis we studied the life history of the copepod P. annandalei particularly the effects of temperature-salinity interactions and other aspects such as the reproductive biology to understand its population dynamics in the field. We also investigate the population dynamics of dominant copepods in two contrasting estuaries including P. annandalei and E. affinis respectively in the subtropical Danshuei Estuary and the temperate Seine Estuary. The main originality of this work was to use similar protocols in laboratory and in the field observations in the two contrasting systems. The life history study of P. annandalei highlighted the importance of temperature and salinity in its life cycle strategy. It is able to develop and reproduce in a wide range of temperature-salinity conditions however it showed better fitness at temperature 25-30°C and salinity 15. The field studies showed that the population dynamics of copepods was driven by different environmental factors in the two contrasting systems such as the river discharge in the temperate Seine Estuary and the typhoons in the subtropical Danshuei Estuary. Finally our result may find some interests and applications in subtropical/tropical copepod population dynamics and in industrial aquaculture as well as in the ecology of subtropical brackish systems within the global climate change context.

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