Pagès Jean. (1992). Detrital food webs in tropical haline swamps : a review.
Tahiti : ORSTOM, p. 43-123. (Océanographie.Notes et Documents ; 44). ISSN 0755-3412.
Titre du document
Detrital food webs in tropical haline swamps : a review
Année de publication
1992
Type de document
Littérature grise
Auteurs
Pagès Jean
In
Charpy Loïc, Harmelin-Vivien M., Sims N.A., Pagès Jean
Source
Tahiti : ORSTOM, 1992,
p. 43-123 (Océanographie.Notes et Documents ; 44). ISSN 0755-3412
We try to organize the recent literature about organic-rich near-shore environments, in which sediments, shallow waters and reparian vegetation inter-act. We review the publications dealing with the effect of estuaries, and mangroves in particular, upon halieutics in the adjacent waters. Several recurring themes emerge, which we shall list without priority as : importance of heterotrophy, at all organizational and spatial levels (the microbial loop being only one aspect), and reduced role of autotrophs in optically deep waters - importance of recycling processes - persuasive role of water body morphometry and bathymetry - importance of processes at the interfaces, together with the difficulty of spatially defining these very interfaces -blurring of frontiers : between oxic and anoxic, between auto and heterotrophy, between autochthonous and allochthonous. (Résumé d'auteur)
