@techreport{fdi:37945, title = {{D}etrital food webs in tropical haline swamps : a review}, author = {{P}ag{\`e}s, {J}ean}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{W}e try to organize the recent literature about organic-rich near-shore environments, in which sediments, shallow waters and reparian vegetation inter-act. {W}e review the publications dealing with the effect of estuaries, and mangroves in particular, upon halieutics in the adjacent waters. {S}everal 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. ({R}{\'e}sum{\'e} d'auteur)}, keywords = {{MANGROVE} ; {ESTUAIRE} ; {EAU} {SUPERFICIELLE} ; {CARACTERISTIQUE} {PHYSIQUE} ; {SEL} {NUTRITIF} ; {ECLAIREMENT} ; {OXYGENE} {DISSOUS} ; {STRUCTURE} {TROPHIQUE} ; {POLYNESIE} {FRANCAISE}}, address = {{T}ahiti}, publisher = {{ORSTOM}}, series = {{O}c{\'e}anographie.{N}otes et {D}ocuments}, pages = {43-123}, year = {1992}, ISSN = {0755-3412}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:37945}, }