Jean-Marc Deslous-Paoli

TL;DR: Mussels responses to changes in the food environment comprise physiological adjustments which result in higher net rates of absorption than would be predicted from considerations only of the organic/inorganic ratio of the suspended particles and assumptions of a non-compensating feeding behaviour.

TL;DR: Clearance and oxygen consumption rates of Crassostrea gigas were investigated with animals of 5–200 g total wet weight, and at different temperatures after 10 days acclimation, finding neither model is appropriate during the reproductive period.

TL;DR: In this article, an ecosystem model based on nitrogen cycling and oxygen has been developed for the Thau lagoon, a semi-confined system with watershed inputs and oyster farming.

TL;DR: Recolonisation of Zostera marina, following complete destruction caused by an anoxic crisis, was studied in the Thau lagoon from February 1998 to September 1999 as biomasses similar to those from untouched areas were reached only nine months after seed germination.

TL;DR: This situation was likely to favour nitrification, which led during autumn to higher nitrate concentrations within shellfish farming zones than outside, and filter feeders were able to alter the dominant biogeochemical process in the water column by stimulating nitrifica- tion.