In the South Pacific, an important island has been forgotten and neglected from monitoring and re... more In the South Pacific, an important island has been forgotten and neglected from monitoring and research programs on marine biodiversity: Bora-Bora, often called the ‘Pearl of the Pacific’. To fill this gap in our knowledge, we have analyzed the only two datasets available to date on the biodiversity of Bora-Bora’s reefs: Reef Checks’ program, conducted on 18 sites inside the lagoon in 2006 and 2018; and Biodiversity’s monitoring program, conducted on 31 lagoon sites in 2019. Both monitoring programs showed that the corals in Bora-Bora lagoon are in good health. The living coral cover has been stable on all recorded geomorphological zones between 2006 and 2019. In contrast, there was a strong decrease in the density of all macro-invertebrate species recorded (i.e. giant clams, sea-urchins, sea-cucumbers, sea-snails). For giant clams, three human-related causes of extraction were identified: collecting activities of tourists, local inhabitants and occasional major predation by large g...
Monitoring of French Polynesia coral reefs and their recent development.-French Polynesia, consis... more Monitoring of French Polynesia coral reefs and their recent development.-French Polynesia, consisting of 118 islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean, has more than 15 000 km(2) of reefs and lagoons managed by the local government. Tourism and pearl culture are the two main economic resources of the country. Polynesian coral reefs are extremely diverse and are among those for which we have thorough knowledge. The exploitation of local resources has been recorded for multiple decades and includes : coral materials, fishing, harvest and export of mother-of-pearl molluscs, pearl production, and ornamental fish. All over the country, many monitoring programmes have been launched to measure the health of reefs and the natural and anthropogenic perturbations that they suffer : hurricanes and seismic events, water quality, health of benthic and fish communities, pearl oyster pathology and radiobiology. These data, collected over the last few decades, allowed to define the relative import...
La Polynésie française, 118 îles au coeur du Pacifique, possède une surface de plus de 15 000 km2... more La Polynésie française, 118 îles au coeur du Pacifique, possède une surface de plus de 15 000 km2 de récifs et lagons gérés par le gouvernement polynésien. Le tourisme et la perliculture représentent les deux ressources économiques majeures du Pays. Les ...
In the South Pacific, an important island has been forgotten and neglected from monitoring and re... more In the South Pacific, an important island has been forgotten and neglected from monitoring and research programs on marine biodiversity: Bora-Bora, often called the ‘Pearl of the Pacific’. To fill this gap in our knowledge, we have analyzed the only two datasets available to date on the biodiversity of Bora-Bora’s reefs: Reef Checks’ program, conducted on 18 sites inside the lagoon in 2006 and 2018; and Biodiversity’s monitoring program, conducted on 31 lagoon sites in 2019. Both monitoring programs showed that the corals in Bora-Bora lagoon are in good health. The living coral cover has been stable on all recorded geomorphological zones between 2006 and 2019. In contrast, there was a strong decrease in the density of all macro-invertebrate species recorded (i.e. giant clams, sea-urchins, sea-cucumbers, sea-snails). For giant clams, three human-related causes of extraction were identified: collecting activities of tourists, local inhabitants and occasional major predation by large g...
Monitoring of French Polynesia coral reefs and their recent development.-French Polynesia, consis... more Monitoring of French Polynesia coral reefs and their recent development.-French Polynesia, consisting of 118 islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean, has more than 15 000 km(2) of reefs and lagoons managed by the local government. Tourism and pearl culture are the two main economic resources of the country. Polynesian coral reefs are extremely diverse and are among those for which we have thorough knowledge. The exploitation of local resources has been recorded for multiple decades and includes : coral materials, fishing, harvest and export of mother-of-pearl molluscs, pearl production, and ornamental fish. All over the country, many monitoring programmes have been launched to measure the health of reefs and the natural and anthropogenic perturbations that they suffer : hurricanes and seismic events, water quality, health of benthic and fish communities, pearl oyster pathology and radiobiology. These data, collected over the last few decades, allowed to define the relative import...
La Polynésie française, 118 îles au coeur du Pacifique, possède une surface de plus de 15 000 km2... more La Polynésie française, 118 îles au coeur du Pacifique, possède une surface de plus de 15 000 km2 de récifs et lagons gérés par le gouvernement polynésien. Le tourisme et la perliculture représentent les deux ressources économiques majeures du Pays. Les ...
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