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TI Micronekton distributions and assemblages at two shallow seamounts of the south-western Indian Ocean: Insights from acoustics and mesopelagic trawl data
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AF Annasawmy, Pavanee
   Ternon, Jean-Francois
   Cotel, Pascal
   Cherel, Yves
   Romanov, Evgeny V.
   Roudaut, Gildas
   Lebourges-Dhaussy, Anne
   Ménard, Fréderic
   Marsac, Francis
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C1 MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Avenue Jean Monnet, CS 30171, 34203 Sète cedex, France
   Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa
   Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR7372 du CNRS-Université de la Rochelle, 79360 Villiers-en-bois, France
   Centre technique d’appui à la pêche réunionnaise (CAP RUN)-NEXA, 97420 Le Port, Île de la Réunion, France
   Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR LEMAR 195 (UBO/CNRS/IRD), Campus Ifremer, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
   Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, Marseille, France
C2 IRD, FRANCE
   UNIV CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CAP RUN, FRANCE
   IRD, FRANCE
   UNIV AIX MARSEILLE, FRANCE
UM LEMAR
   MARBEC
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   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
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IF 4.06
TC 16
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00510/62135/66368.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR LA PEROUSE
   MAD-RIDGE-1
   MAD-RIDGE-2
BO Antea
DE ;Micronekton;Seamount;South-western Indian Ocean;Acoustics;Seamount-associated fauna
AB Micronekton distributions and assemblages were investigated at two shallow seamounts of the south-western Indian Ocean using a combination of trawl data and multi-frequency acoustic visualisation techniques. La Pérouse (∼60 m) seamount is located on the outskirts of the oligotrophic Indian South Subtropical Gyre province with weak mesoscale activities and low primary productivity all year round. The “MAD-Ridge” seamount (thus termed in this study; ∼240 m) is located in the productive East African Coastal (EAFR) province with high mesoscale activities to the south of Madagascar. This resulted in higher micronekton species richness at MAD-Ridge compared to La Pérouse. Resulting productivity at MAD-Ridge seamount was likely due to the action of mesoscale eddies advecting larvae and productivity from the Madagascar shelf rather than local dynamic processes such as Taylor column formation. Mean micronekton abundance/biomass, as estimated from mesopelagic trawl catches, were lower over the summit compared to the vicinity of the seamounts, due to net selectivity and catchability and depth gradient on micronekton assemblages. Mean acoustic densities in the night shallow scattering layer (SSL: 10-200 m) over the summit were not significantly different compared to the vicinity (within 14 nautical miles) of MAD-Ridge. At La Pérouse and MAD-Ridge, the night and day SSL were dominated by common diel vertical migrant and non-migrant micronekton species respectively. While seamount-associated mesopelagic fishes such as Diaphus suborbitalis (La Pérouse and MAD-Ridge) and Benthosema fibulatum performed diel vertical migrations (DVM) along the seamounts’ flanks, seamount-resident benthopelagic fishes, including Cookeolus japonicus (MAD-Ridge), were aggregated over MAD-Ridge summit both during the day and night. Before sunrise, mid-water migrants initiated the first vertical migration event from the intermediate to the deep scattering layer (DSL, La Pérouse: 500-650m; MAD-Ridge: 400-700 m) or deeper. During sunrise, the other taxa contributing to the night SSL exhibited a successive series of vertical migration events from the surface to the DSL or deeper. Some scatterers were blocked in their upward and downward migrations due to the seamount topography, more commonly known as the sound scattering layer interception/topographic blockage hypothesis. Possible mechanisms leading to the observed patterns in micronekton vertical and horizontal distributions are discussed. This study contributes to a better understanding of how seamounts influence the diel vertical migration, horizontal distribution and community composition of micronekton and seamount-associated/resident species at two poorly studied shallow topographic features in the south-western Indian Ocean. 
PY 2019
PD NOV
SO Progress In Oceanography
SN 0079-6611
PU Elsevier BV
VL 178
UT 000496861900013
DI 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102161
ID 62135
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