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A review of selected indicators of particle, nutrient and metal inputs in coral reef lagoon systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2005

Renaud Fichez ,
Medhi Adjeroud ,
Yves-Marie Bozec ,
Ludovic Breau ,
Yannick Chancerelle ,
Christophe Chevillon ,
Pascal Douillet ,
Jean-Michel Fernandez ,
Patrick Frouin  and
Michel Kulbicki
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Renaud Fichez
Affiliation:
Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, rue de la batterie des lions, 13007 Marseille, France
Medhi Adjeroud
Affiliation:
École Pratique des Hautes Études, laboratoire de biologie marine et malacologie, UMR 8046 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France
Yves-Marie Bozec
Affiliation:
Agrocampus Rennes, Dép. halieutique UPR Mesh, 65 rue de St-Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Ludovic Breau
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Yannick Chancerelle
Affiliation:
CRIOBE, BP 1013, Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia
Christophe Chevillon
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Pascal Douillet
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Jean-Michel Fernandez
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Patrick Frouin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Écologie Marine, Université de la Réunion, BP 7151, 97715 Saint-Denis Cedex 9, France
Michel Kulbicki
Affiliation:
École Pratique des Hautes Études, laboratoire de biologie marine et malacologie, UMR 8046 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France
Benjamin Moreton
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Sylvain Ouillon
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Claude Payri
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Nouméa, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia
Thierry Perez
Affiliation:
Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume, rue de la batterie des lions, 13007 Marseille, France
Pierre Sasal
Affiliation:
Centre de Biologie et d'Écologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, UMR 5555 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
Julien Thébault
Affiliation:
Centre IRD de Brest, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané Cedex, France
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Abstract

This review presents environmental and biological indicators of the impact of three major categories of inputs in coral reef lagoons i.e. particles, nutrients and metals. Information was synthesized to extract well established indicators together with some interesting new concepts currently under development, and to provide the reader with an assessment of their respective advantages and drawbacks. The paper has been organized according to the capacity of three categories of indicators to respond either in a specific or a non specific way to a given source of input. The first section focuses on abiotic indicators which main interest is to respond instantaneously and in a truly specific way to a given source of input. The second and third sections present informations on bioindicators either at the sub-individual level or at the individual to community level, indicator specificity generally decreasing as a direct function of biological or ecological complexity. This review showed that even though significant work has already been done on coral reef ecosystems, much more scientific studies are still needed to answer the growing local demands for simple and truly validated tools to be used in environmental surveys. It is further stressed that, due to the biological and environmental diversity of coral reef lagoons, a preliminary step of on-site validation must be considered as an absolute prerequisite when indicators are planned to be used in the frame of a local environmental monitoring programme.

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Coral reefLagoonSediment loadEutrophicationMetalsPollutionAbiotic indicatorsBioindicatorsBiomarkers
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 125 - 147
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD, 2005

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