Marine oil spill management requires rapid and accurate forecasts to mitigate environmental and operational risks. Created in 2002 during the Prestige spill and formally established in 2006, the French Drift Committee (CODER) unites expertise from CEDRE, Météo-France, Ifremer and Shom to refine oil drift modeling and response strategies. CODER’s operational scope combines multi-model forecasting, including MOTHY and OILMAP, in...

Wildflowers in uncultivated field margin are important resources supporting both pest and non-pest thrips populations in agroecosystems. Environmental factors related to wildflowers have never been used as predictors to model pest thrips density in adjacent crops. Wild and cultivated flowers were sampled in strawberry field agroecosystem in Orléans Island, near Quebec City, Canada. Pest flower thrips Frankliniella intonsa and...

We examined biogenic silica production and elementary composition (biogenic Si, particulate organic carbon and particulate organic nitrogen) of Rhizaria and diatoms in the upper 200 m along a transect in the Southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summer (January–February 2019). From incubations using the 32 Si radioisotope, silicic acid uptake rates were measured at 15 stations distributed in the Polar F...

Litter decomposition is a key process that allows the recycling of nutrients within ecosystems. In temperate forests, the role of large herbivores in litter decomposition remains a subject of debate. To address this question, we used two litterbag experiments in a quasiexperimental situation resulting from the introduction of Sitka black‐tailed deer Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis on forested islands of Haida Gwaii (Canada). We...

The aim of this study was to summarise the literature reporting the risk factors for mortality in the mussel species Mytilus edulis and Mytilus galloprovincialis in order to identify potential science‐based solutions to prevent or mitigate mussel mortality outbreaks. We followed the PRISMA methodology: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses. The studied corpus of 91 publications (114 studies) was hi...

There are two recognized species in the genus Berardius , Baird's and Arnoux's beaked whales. In Japan, whalers have traditionally recognized two forms of Baird's beaked whales, the common “slate‐gray” form and a smaller, rare “black” form. Previous comparison of mt DNA control region sequences from three black specimens to gray specimens around Japan indicated that the two forms comprise different stocks and potentially diffe...