Evolution des hydrocarbures et des populations bactériennes et microphytiques dans les sédiments des marais maritimes de l'ile grande pollués par l'Amoco cadiz: 2—Evolution des peuplements microphytiques |
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Authors: | Therese le Campion-Alsumard Marie-Reine Plante-Cuny Eveline Vacelet Gilbert Mille |
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Institution: | Station Marine d''Endoume et Centre d''Océanographie, rue Batterie des Lions, 13007 Marseille, France;Centre de spectroscopie moléculaire, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jérôme, rue Henri Poincaré, 13397 Marseille Cedex 4, France |
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Abstract: | In this work we attempt to estimate the short- and long-term effects of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill on benthic microalgal populations (cyanophytes and diatoms) which, under natural conditions, live on upper layers of ‘schorres’ soils or of ‘slikke’ muds in the Ile Grande salt marsh system (Côtes du Nord, France). These populations were completely destroyed in 1978 in the oil-affected sites. Ubiquitous species settled fairly rapidly on intertidal polluted muds (tidal flat). The chlorophyll a content values reached 100 μg g−1 dry sediment, i.e. 1000 mg m−2 in 1980. Conversely, the salt marsh soils are still much less densely repopulated 3 years after the Amoco Cadiz grounding—especially when they are infrequently flooded (3 to 40 μg Chl.a g−1, i.e. 40 to 270 mg m−2). Some of these soils remain ten times less populated than reference stations. |
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