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Foray, Vincent. "La plasticité phénotypique en réponse à la variabilité environnementale : de la norme de réaction aux mécanismes physiologiques." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO10299.
Full textPhenotypic plasticity, i.e. the ability of a genotype to express several phenotypes depending on environmental conditions, represents an important source of phenotypic variability and so plays a major role in evolution. In a variable environment, generalist strategies, able to maintain a stable value of fitness over a wide range of environmental conditions, thanks to a greater plasticity of underlying traits, should be favored. The analysis of reaction norms of physiological traits and traits related to fitness as a function of temperature reveals in the parasitoid Venturia canescens that (i) thermal variability of the habitat determines the shape of reaction norms, according to the trade-off between generalist and specialist strategies, (ii) differences between generalist and specialist individuals are maintained face to rapid fluctuations in temperature that mimic natural conditions and (iii) individuals experiencing greater variability in their thermal habitat have a greater capacity for cold acclimation. These results indicate the existence of two different strategies in V. canescens and therefore a thermal niche differentiation, allowing their coexistence in a heterogeneous environment
Dubuc-Messier, Gabrielle. "Hétérogénéité environnementale et évolution des différences de traits de personnalité chez la mésange bleue (Cyaniste caeruleus)." Thesis, Montpellier, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MONTT083/document.
Full textEnvironmental heterogeneity, spatial variation in selection pressure and gene flow are known to be important for shaping intra-specific variation and local adaptations. However, their roles as drivers of variation and divergence in behavioral traits have seldom been studied. Here, we studied the phenotypic divergence of breeding and fledgling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) for personality traits across three wild populations situated in contrasted habitats yet connected by gene flow. We first compared the mean personality phenotype of each population. Second, using common garden, reciprocal transplant and cross-fostering experiment we investigated the genetic basis of the observed divergence. Third, we determined the selection pressure acting on the personality phenotype in each population. We found phenotypic and genetic difference between populations and our results suggested that these divergences result from the local selection regime in each habitat. Overall, our results highlight the importance of environmental heterogeneity in the maintenance of small-scale intra-specific variation for behavioral traits
Bruneau, Emmanuelle. "Les régulateurs transcriptionnels Rgg de Streptococcus thermophilus LMG18311 : étude du rôle de la protéine Rgg0182." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0139/document.
Full textThis thesis aims to characterize the rgg genes of S. thermophilus LMG18311 coding transcriptional regulator and their involvement in environmental adaptation. This work shows that rgg0182 gene encodes a transcriptional regulator controlling the transcription of its flanking genes. The Rgg0182/Shp0182 pair could be involved in a quorum sensing mechanism. This work also demonstrates that the Rgg0182 protein is involved in S. thermophilus tolerance to heat stresses. In addition, the mutant delta rgg0182 cells exhibit a thermo-induced adhesion phenotype via hydrophobic interactions. Analyses by atomic force microscopy of LMG18311 cells of the wildtype and its derivative rgg0182 mutant reveal the presence of polymers only on the surface of the wild-type strain, suggesting that the protein Rgg0182 would regulate the expression of surface proteins and proteins of cell division. A proteomic study coupled with transcriptomic analysis led to the identification of several targets of Rgg0182 involving in various biological functions. The data obtained in this work have shown that the S. thermophilus LMG18311 rgg0182 genes encodes a global regulator of gene expression. Furthermore, transcriptional analyses, in different growth conditions, of the 7 rgg genes present in the genome of S. thermophilus LMG18311 showed that they display different expression profiles that are modulated by environmental conditions. This suggests that these genes would be required in distinct growth conditions. These data raise the hypothesis that Rgg proteins participate in the fine and complex regulation of S. thermophilus gene expression
Alegre, Norza Sior Ana Renza Paola. "Trophic ecology of jumbo squid and predatory fishes in the Northern Humboldt Current System." Thesis, Montpellier, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MONTS223/document.
Full textThis work provides a contribution to a better understanding of the trophic ecology of important predators in the Northern Humboldt Current System, the jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi), the chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) and the jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) by the characterization of the highly variable feeding patterns of these species at different spatiotemporal scales. We provided new knowledge on the comparative trophic behaviour of these species, defined as opportunistic in previous investigations. For that purpose we applied a variety of statistical methods to an extensive dataset of 27,188 non-empty stomachs. We defined the spatial organization of the forage fauna of these predators and documented changes in prey composition according to predators' size and spatiotemporal features of environment. Our results highligh the key role played by the dissolved oxygen. We also deciphered an important paradox on the jumbo squid diet: why do they hardly forage on the huge anchovy (Engraulis ringens) biomass distributed of coastal Peru? We showed that the shallow oxygen minimum zone present off coastal Peru could hamper the co-occurrence of jumbo squids and anchovies. In addition, we proposed a conceptual model on jumbo squid trophic ecology including the ontogenetic cycle, oxygen and prey availability. Moreover we showed that the trophic behaviour of jack mackerel and chub mackerel is adapted to forage on more accessible species such as for example the squat lobster Pleurocondes monodon and Zoea larvae. Besides, both predators present a trophic overlap. But jack mackerel was not as voracious as chub mackerel, contradictorily to what was observed by others authors. Fish diet presented a high spatiotemporal variability, and the shelf break appeared as a strong biogeographical frontier. Diet composition of our fish predators was not necessarily a consistent indicator of changes in prey biomass. El Niño events had a weak effect on the stomach fullness and diet composition of chub mackerel and jack mackerel. Moreover, decadal changes in diet diversity challenged the classic paradigm of positive correlation between species richness and temperature. Finally, the global patterns that we described in this work, illustrated the opportunistic foraging behaviour, life strategies and the high degree of plasticity of these species. Such behaviour allows adaptation to changes in the environment
Bioy, Alexis. "Histoire évolutive et influence de la sélection sur la diversité génétique des annélides polychètes d’environnements extrêmes." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUS156.
Full textThe question of the variable environments available for a given population has been raised in the past. Levene (1953) sought to see to what extent it is possible to maintain polymorphism in a situation where more than one ecological niche is available. Subsequently, other authors looked for the conditions (selective pressures, niche size, etc.) in which a spatially variable environment, i.e. an environment grouping several niches, could induce or maintain polymorphism. On the other hand, the intrinsic variability of the environment, and therefore the effect it has on the species exposed to it, is little studied. This thesis has been able to highlight the power of environmental variability on the maintenance of spontaneous or introgressed polymorphism in populations. Thus, differences in environmental variability between populations of the same species imply the development of adaptations and can generate and reinforce the differentiation between populations. Along with the life history traits and genetic background of the species, this variability marks the genome and leaves footprints of the environments characterized, among other things, by a contrasting thermal variability. It also induces different and more or less strong selective pressures on enzymatic systems. These selective pressures lead to the implementation of different strategies depending on the species that must make the most of the possibilities offered by their ancestral enzymatic baggage
Vinçon-Laugier, Arnauld. "Influence des paramètres environnementaux sur la biosynthèse d’éthers de glycérol bactériens : étude de modèles biologiques et exemples d’applications (paléo)environnementales." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1081/document.
Full textSome Bacteria synthesize particular phospholipids, called glycerol ether lipids (AGE) which have a chemical structure at the intersection of the Bacteria and Archea domains. The singular nature of these lipids and their thermostable chemical structure allow them to be well preserved in the environment following bacterial lysis, and suggest their potential to constitute good biogeochemical and/or environmental biomarkers. However, very little information is currently available concerning the modes of formation and the role of AGEs in bacterial membranes. In this thesis, we studied the lipid composition of various pure strains of anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria able to synthesize AGEs, grown under various controlled conditions of temperature, pH and salinity. Various structural modifications of AGE were observed in response to variations in growth conditions, some of which being specific to, and linearly correlated with, changes in temperature or salinity. The results demonstrate the involvement of AGEs in membrane adaptation to changes in the physico-chemical conditions, and suggest the use of the structural distribution of AGEs in natural samples as an indicator of environmental conditions. The analysis of the AGE content of samples from different actual and past ecosystems, allowed confirming the potential of AGEs to be used as indicators of variations of (paleo)environmental conditions
Alberto, Florian. "Différenciation phénologique et moléculaire du chêne sessile le long de gradients environnementaux." Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR14015/document.
Full textIn order to assess the capacity of sessile oak (Quercus petraea Matt. Liebl.) to withstand the ongoing climate changes, we estimated its adaptative potential for bud burst within natural populations. These populations are located along two steep temperature gradients: an altitudinal gradient comprising 12 populations located between 131 m 1630 m, and a latitudinal gradient including 21 populations from the species’ distribution range. First the demographic imprint on the overall genetic diversity was assessed on the altitudinal gradient populations using neutral markers. Results showed that genetic diversity was homogeneously distributed along the gradient and maintained at high altitudes. The genetic variability of bud burst was measured in provenance tests for 10 populations of the altitudinal gradient. We found a high level of genetic differentiation and a high heritability for the trait. A high variability was also observed within populations, indicating that selection pressures may fluctuate in natural conditions. Genetic diversity of candidate genes for bud burst was assessed on populations from both gradients. A high level of nucleotide diversity was observed, and linkage disequilibrium was low. Selective signatures were observed on few candidate genes. An association mapping study was performed between bud burst variability and polymorphism at the candidate genes on populations of both gradients separately. A total of 16 associations involving 10 genes were observed. These results suggest an important adaptive potential of sessile oak for bud burst in the face of climate change and provide interesting perspectives for the comprehension of evolutionary processes controlling bud burst adaptation of sessile oak
Aujoulat, Fabien. "Adaptation et spécialisation des bactéries environnementales à l'infection humaine : étude des genres Ochrobactrum et Agrobacterium." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON13501/document.
Full textThe opportunistic bacterial pathogens (OBP) cause the main part of bacterial infectious diseases. Environmental-borne OBP should encounter dramatic changes in lifestyle in order to colonize human beings. The conditions of this adaptation should precise concepts about OBP and emerging pathogens.The genera Ochrobactrum and Agrobacterium groups bacteria with versatile lifestyles that establish diverse relationships with the eukaryotic cells. These environmental-borne OBP caused diverse infectious diseases in immune-compromised patients. In this study, we undertook an approach of multilocus genetic on large population of environmental and clinical strains of Ochrobactrum and Agrobacterium. The population structures were compared to phenotypic traits related to adaptation and virulence in man, such as growth temperature, biofilm formation and virulence tested in Caenorhabditis elegans and human macrophages models.Ochrobactrum anthropi and Ochrobactrum intermedium are the two main Ochrobactrum species to be involved in human diseases. O. anthropi displays an epidemic population structure organized in two large clonal complexes (CCs). CC4 groups only human associated strains whereas CC1 contain environmental and clinical strains. Population genetics suggested that CC4 is a human-associated clone although phenotypic, genomic and virulence traits do not differ between CC1 and CC4 strains.As O. anthropi, O. intermedium displays a high genetic diversity without correlation between the genetic structure and the origin of strains. The level of genetic diversity among clinical strains appears as high as observed in the whole population. Several data such as a low level of genomic diversity suggested that O. intermedium is associated to a narrow ecological niche. The low number of environmental strains described for this species as well as an optimal growth at 37°C suggested that human beings could be the main niche for O. intermedium. Virulence in macrophage and C. elegans models showed diverse behaviour whereas some strains are able to survive and multiply in macrophages model.Multilocus genetics in a population of Agrobacterium spp. that displays diverse lifestyles, revealed a human associated population as observed for O. anthropi. The clinical genovar A7 groups 80% of the clinical strains included in the study, this strains growing at 42°C. Data obtained in this study will be confronted to the knowledge about other environmental-borne OBP such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and bacteria belonging to the species complex Burkholderia cepacia. All these bacteria displayed sub-populations associated to man or to a particular human disease. These sub-populations suggest a specialization process that will be described in the context of the speciation of bacterial pathogen in order to revisite the concept of « opportunisme infectieux »
Dutilleul, Morgan. "Réponses microévolutives et coûts adaptatifs de populations de Caenorhabditis elegans exposées à des stress environnementaux." Thèse, Montpellier 1, 2013. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5860/1/D2565.pdf.
Full textMarty, Vincent. "Adaptation de l'Archaea halophile halobacterium salinarum aux stress environnementaux : mécanismes de survie et rôle de la protéolyse intracellulaire." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENV087/document.
Full textMolecular systems described for Archaea show primitive and simple characteristics, compared to their homologous eukaryotes. In addition, extremophilic characteristic results in an hyper-robust which makes in vitro manipulation and structural studies much easier. Thus, Archaea represent good models for understanding complex cellular functions, particularly those that involve large molecular machines, such as those involved in proteolysis. My thesis consisted in understanding the resistance mechanisms and the importance of proteolytic systems in the adaptation of halophilic Archaea to environmental stresses. Halophilic Archaea accumulate multi-molar concentrations of KCl / NaCl in their cytosol (3.4M KCl / NaCl 1.1M for Halobacterium Salinarum). This requires a very special biochemistry that allows operation in solvents where free water is scarce. Thus, the proteins of these organisms are themselves halophilic and are soluble and folded only in extreme salinity conditions (2 to 5 M). This particular biochemistry partly explain the extraordinary ability of halophilic Archaea to resist physical and chemical stress (temperature, radiation, dehydration). We study the response of the halophilic Archaea strict H. salinarum at low-salinity stress. Indeed, beyond the osmotic shock, the fall of the environment salt concentration causes a decrease in the intracellular KCl concentration, which should have a direct effect on the folding state of intracellular protein, as in case of heat stress. In the first part of this thesis, a study was conduct to determine viability limits and cytosolic modifications, associated with a salinity decrease. These studies involve intracellular salt dosages, viability studies (microscopic counts, color live / dead), induction of chaperone proteins linked to stress response and biophysical neutron experiments, to evaluate the effect of stress on proteins folding. In this work, a phenomenon of survival at low salinity linked to morphological changes was revealed. To describe this phenomenon, this second study involves confocal microscopy experiences, fluorescence microscopy, viability tests, counting on box, scanning electron microscopy, electron microscopy by negative staining, salt intracellular dosages and proteins separation experiments, to study the overall proteome composition during low salinity stress. In this study, a fall of the intracellular K $^+$ concentration and the proteome clarification during stress was revealed. Low salt concentrations causes halophiles proteins denaturation, the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the cytoplasm involves chaperones systems and intracellular proteolysis machinery. In this context, another objective of my thesis was to contribute to the understanding of the intracellular proteolysis role in the PAN-proteasome system and in the aminopeptidase TET complex, in stress conditions established in previous studies. This part of the thesis involves experiments of endopeptidase activity assay, aminopeptidase activity assay, quantification of mRNA genic expression by Northern blot, immunoprecipitation, proteins separation by sucrose gradient and proteasome chemical inhibition (drug). We show the role of the PAN-proteasome system in stress response and we deepen our understanding of the aminopeptidase TET role in vivo. This protease appears to have an independent role of the proteasome complex. The protease TET seems to participate at the amino acids treatment in cells to maintain the metabolic activities in nutritional deficiencies
Comte, Adrien. "Coral reefs ecosystem services under global environmental change : interdisciplinary approaches to guide science and action." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0002/document.
Full textGlobal environmental change (GEC) in the ocean threatens marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them. A growing scientific effort is attempting to evaluate the impacts of environmental changes on ecosystems and ecosystem services and guide policy-making to respond to this global issue. Focusing on social-ecological systems of coral reefs, this thesis critically reviews the approaches put forward in the literature to understand gaps and to design new methodologies, assessments, and indicators to guide science and policy. Our findings show that a regionally targeted strategy of research should address complexity and provide more realistic projections about the impacts of GEC on coral reefs ecosystems and ecosystem services. We map global-scale indicators to understand where human dependence on coral reef ecosystems will be affected by globally-driven threats expected in a high-CO2 world. We then analyze how science is responding to the challenge posed by GEC on coral reefs and to identify gaps in research.Finally, we attempt to operationalize an overlooked component of vulnerability assessments, ecological adaptive capacity, to serve as a tool to help assess where local actions can be effective in the context of climate change. This manuscript contributes to theoretical and methodological advances to evaluate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to GEC. It develops interdisciplinary approaches for the study of social-ecological systems and ecosystem services, targeting coral reefs as a case study. Finally, it synthesizes critically the emergence of a scientific field on solutions to GEC for coral reef social-ecological systems
Drieux, Christiane. "Les Inughuit, chasseurs de narvals. Évolution et adaptations des savoirs et savoir-faire dans un environnement en changement." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP024.
Full textThis thesis presents, in the form of a monograph based on several field works, the knowledge and skill of the Inughuit narwhal hunters, in northwest Greenland. Through abundant iconography and by putting into perspective of the practices of early twentieth century hunters and those of current ones, it highlights how the Inughuit combine resilience and creativity. Narwhal hunters favour equipment and kayaks whose design, with the skills and knowledge they require, connect them to their ancestors. By perpetuating narwhal hunting from kayak, they combine dexterity of gesture, extreme physical skills, attention to the environment and the animals, with their community traditions. While opening up to modernity gives them access to motorized vehicles, hunters, to go to the hunting grounds in the spring, load their kayaks on dog sledges. This thesis examines their choice and shows the special place that hunters give to interspecies dialogue with animals they consider to be intentioned and endowed with intelligence. In parallel, this study investigates the impact on traditional practices of new regulations to protect narwhals in what is a breeding area. Economic necessities and environmental changes due to climate modifications, compel hunters to turn to other sources of income, to adapt to other rules inspired by them opening up to a market society and induce a different relationship to the environment. Thus, hunters have created a cooperative that markets the mattaaq of the narwhals they have harpooned during the summer season and halibut whose fishing they have developed during the sea ice season. The study conducted in the four villages of the region, notes the influence of this evolution on the appropriation and redistribution of killed game, in a community regulated by mutual aid and sharing. While the Inughuit, in an approach combining creativity and resilience, open their world to globalization, narwhal hunting, deeply rooted in ancestral relationships with the environment and animals, continues to provide the community, not only access to meat and mattaaq, but also a link with its past, a cohesion around its cultural heritage, and constitutes a specific identity-based practice, bearing regulatory norms
Alliot, Nolwenn. "Étude phénotypique de souches de Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolées de contextes cliniques et environnementaux. : Évaluation du lien entre les signatures métaboliques, de virulence et d'antibiorésistance." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE1152.
Full textIn the clinical settings, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is described as an opportunistic bacterial pathogen responsible for nosocomial infections mainly in immunocompromised patients or with severe or chronic diseases. The heavy shield of antibiotic resistances observed in clinical strains lead to particularly complex treatments for patients. S. maltophilia strains represent a real threat to human health. Moreover, the high potential for adaptation of S. maltophilia allow their dispersion in a wide range of clinical habitats but also environmental. Indeed, S. maltophilia strains also colonize widely environmental niches such as the rhizospheric soils. The knowledge about these environmental strains is particularly limited compared to the available medical data. The properties as opportunistic pathogenic of environmental strains remain poorly known and controversial. To better assess the potential health hazard of these environmental S. maltophilia compared to the clinical ones, were assessed in this Ph-D project phenotypic characteristics of a group of S. maltophilia strains from contexts differentially affected by human and environment imprints. S. maltophilia heavily impacted by human contacts have been isolated from patients with varying disease (cystic fibrosis, nosocomial infections, severe pathologies). This group of strains considered as the most at risk to humans, was compared to a group of S. maltophilia from environmental contexts that could promote acquisition/maintaining of resistances to antimicrobial molecules such as rhizospheric soils, heavy metal-contaminated soils or agricultural soils. Firstly, metabolic signatures (growth, substrate degradations) and antibiotic resistance capacities were evaluated among the collection of S. maltophilia strains. In a second part, were studied pathogenic potentialities of these strains such as mobility, enzyme secretions, biofilm formation and virulence to amoebae. Finally, a statistical analysis made connections on the different signatures obtained from the metabolic data, antibiotic resistance and virulence with the origins of the strains and human impacts. According to the datasets of the project, four distinct signatures emerged between S. maltophilia strains structured by the effects of human proximity and origin of the strains. Environmental strains potentially the most impacted by contact with humans showed similar characteristics with the clinical strains; they could potentially be as dangerous as clinical strains
De, Mesnard Adele. "Déplacements environnementaux et peuples autochtones : repenser la responsabilité des Etats et de la communauté internationale." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE3032.
Full textThe protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, who are displaced by environmental degradation, is a theme that has received little attention in most of the work on environmental displacement that tends to conceptualize displacement in an abstract way. The particularities of indigenous peoples' environmental displacement require analysis in the legal, political and social contexts in which they occur: this framework makes it possible not to isolate the environmental factor but to specify its importance in view of the particular relationship that indigenous peoples have with the land and their environment and their claims to be able to freely decide their future. Taking the indigenous communities in Alaska as an example, the analysis of the legal and institutional obstacles to the recognition of indigenous particularities in displacement then makes it possible to consider the role of the law in maintaining the status of indigenousness and the perpetuation of the status of the indigenous land in the territory of destination. The mobilization of the various corpuses of recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples under international, regional and domestic law (American law) allows for a re-reading of the obligations of States in the implementation of indigenous rights in the light of the unprecedented context of their environmental displacement, while demonstrating the importance of not locking indigenous peoples into a “legal straitjacket” that would lead communities to no longer being recognized as indigenous when being displaced
Caignard, Thomas. "Variabilité phénotypique et génétique des traits de reproduction de deux espèces de chêne blanc européen (Quercus petraea et Q. robur)." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0060/document.
Full textForest ecosystem dynamics closely depend on tree reproduction. Many studies have investigated the synchronous and non-predictable year-to-year variability of seed production, characteristic of masting species. However, little is known about the sensitivity of tree reproduction to climate variables and to which extent this phenotypic variability is genetically and/or environmentally driven. We intensively studied the reproduction of two European temperate oaks and our aims were (i) to characterize the change in reproductive traits over the last two decades, (ii) to assess the determinism of their variations along environmental gradients and (iii) to estimate the heritability of reproductive traits and identify the regions of their genome related to reproduction. We were able to show a dramatic increase in seed production over the last 14 years. This increase in seed production and size was significantly correlated with increasing spring temperatures. We then confirmed this sensitivity to temperature by studying the reproduction of oak populations growing along the elevation gradient of the Pyrenees. Based on a common garden approach, we then showed significant genetic differentiation between oak provenances and demonstrated that the genetic and phenotypic clines for the reproductive traits observed along the environmental gradient have opposite signs (counter-gradient). Contrary to growth traits, for which genetic variation parallels phenotypic variation, the counter-gradient observed for reproduction-related traits suggested that genetic variation partly counteracts the phenotypic effect of temperature, moderating the change in reproductive effort according to temperature. Finally, using a full-sib family where reproduction was monitored during four consecutive years, we found a high heritability of reproductive traits and showed high genetic differentiation between trees of a same population, which confirms the significant genetic determinism observed earlier. Furthermore, we were able to identify for the first time in forest trees quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with seed production and size. Our findings show that reproduction-related traits may undergo evolutionary changes under selective pressure and may be determinant for tree adaptation in response to environmental changes
Fourt, Maïa. "Histoire de la pêche des éponges en Méditerranée et son adaptation récente au changement régional." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/191217_FOURT_178pyka634dl637hqgt642gcc_TH.pdf.
Full textIn the Mediterranean Sea, small scale fisheries are firmly anchored in the culture of this maritime area. Sponge fishing has been practiced in the Mediterranean since antiquity. Although contributing to an important exportation market until the mid-20th century, it has recently shown signs of weakness, leading to the collapse of the overall production. This study proposed an interdisciplinary approach applied to over two centuries of sponge fishing history. The first part of this study presents a spatial analysis of the fishery at the Mediterranean scale, considering several key periods in order to identify geographical areas where important changes have occurred. The second part analyses the sponge production and the fishing effort variations in the Aegean area and in Tunisia. The last part of this work is dedicated to an analysis of the fishermen’s adaptive choices faced to the sponge fishing activity upheavals. The study shows that up to the 1970s the factors that influenced this fishery were mainly the societal demand, the fragile economic situation of the fishing communities, changes in uses, as well as the socio-political and economic relationships between Mediterranean countries. Since 1986, frequent epizootic events related to changes in thermal regimes have weakened the sponge stocks. Remaining fishermen have mainly adapted to the irregular availability of the resource by targeting other species, or by relying more on other already existing fishing activities
Pacoureau, Nathan. "Influence de la variabilité climatique, de l’abondance de proies, de la densité-dépendance et de l'hétérogénéité individuelle chez des prédateurs supérieurs longévifs : de l’individu à la population." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LAROS026/document.
Full textA fundamental endeavor in population ecology is to identify the drivers of population dynamics. The main objective of this thesis is to determine what are the demographic and population responses of superior marine predators to the fluctuations of their prey abundance, to climatic variations, to density-dependence while taking into account inter and intra individual heterogeneity (age, experience, sex, quality or strategy). To do this, we analysed long-term individual and population-based monitoring of long-lived seabirds and phylogenetically close apical predators in two contrasting biomes: the south polar skua Catharacta maccormicki at Pointe Géologie archipelago, Antarctica, and the brown skua Catharacta lonnbergi on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago. We will use direct abundance of their respective prey: Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae and emperor penguin Aptenodytes forsteri in Antarctica, and the blue petrel Halobaena caerulea and the thin-billed prion Pachyptila belcheri prion in Kerguelen islands. These datasets provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously disentangle and quantify the different sources of variability driving variation in natural populations occupying one of the highest trophic levels of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic food webs. We found variation in several vital traits of both populations influenced by individual performance and latent individual heterogeneity. We discuss the mechanisms by which climatic variability, prey abundance, and population density can differentially affect the different age classes of each age class, and the potential consequences of future environmental changes
Zanotti, Andrea. "Modélisation de type multi-agents en archéologie : l'expansion des premiers agriculteurs Balkaniques : adaptation du modèle OBRESOC : manipulation et exploration des données simulées." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE3057/document.
Full textA topic of great importance in archaeological research throughout the last decades concerns the expansion of the first farmers from Anatolia through the Balkans. The standard archaeological approaches allowed the understanding of the path and timing of this expansion; however, they lack explanation of what is unobservable in the archaeological record: in particular, the socio-economic structure of a prehistoric farming society. Throughout this thesis, an agent-based model was built in order to explore those elements which are hidden in archaeology. This model, called BEAN (Bridging European and Anatolian Neolithic), is an adaptation of the OBRESOC model (Un OBservatoire REtrospectif d'une SOCiété archéologique). OBRESOC was created to simulate the expansion of the LBK farmers in central Europe, and was adapted to the Balkan archaeological context. The expansion of the first Neolithic farmers in the Balkans was simulated by combining the archaeological records to ethnohistoric and paleodemographic inferences. A realistic environment has been modelled where the areas of optimum farming are determined by meteorology and soil fertility estimates. An agent corresponds to a household; agents interact on this landscape, following socioeconomic partial intermediate models. For instance: households composed of a nuclear family; intensive farming system on small plot completed by hunting-gathering; expansion determined by scalar stress at the hamlet scale; family clan solidarity; shortages and famines caused by meteorological events). Thus, the model simulates the functioning of the Neolithic farming society and its geographic expansion. Several simulations have been executed, testing different combinations of the key parameters, identified through a sensitivity analysis. The goodness of fit of simulated data to the archaeological data is measured mostly on geographic criteria : the best simulation is the one that produces the expansion pattern that better fits to the archaeological data. Specific procedures have been developed in order to process the large amount of data produced by the model. The observation of this data permitted to explore some aspects that are invisible in archaeological record : for example, the model helped to investigate some archaeological beliefs, based on assumptions that could not be verified. The model also permitted the exploration of other topics, such as the comparison between the pioneer front of colonization and the zones of previous occupation, as well as the effect of meteorology on the expansion of the farming system. The model produced an expansion pattern that corresponds geographically and chronologically to the expansion suggested by the archaeological evidence. The exploration of socio-economic outputs permitted the formulation of new hypothesis that could not be made using purely archaeological record. Even when there's a large gap between what is found in archaeology and what is produced by the model, this agent-based modelling approach helps to raise new questions, adding new ideas and perspective to the actual state of research
Meyer, Xavier. "Does complexity in behavioral organization allow seabirds to adapt to changes in their environment?" Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAJ039/document.
Full textDue to ongoing climate change, it is necessary to understand how ecosystems will react and more particularly, how species may cope with the challenges of living in unstable systems. Seabirds’ behavior provides a way to monitor changes occurring in the marine environment, but identifying how the temporal structure and complexity of behavior depend on intrinsic and extrinsic parameters are underexplored topics in the field of animal behavior. My thesis aims to investigate if behavioral organization, through a gradient of stochasticity-determinism complexity, allows little and adélie penguins to buffer changes in the environment under a fractal analysis approach
Billard, de Saint Laumer Bénédicte. "Évolution de la plasticité développementale chez le nématode Caenorhabditis elegans." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ6000.
Full textAdaptive developmental plasticity is a common phenomenon allowing organisms to cope with heterogeneous habitats through sensation of environmental cues inducing alternative phenotypes. While there is increasing information on the molecular mechanisms regulating developmental plasticity as well as ample evidence that such plasticity displays natural genetic variation, we still have limited information on how the degree of sensitivity to environmental cues regulating plasticity evolves through specific changes at the molecular level. Focusing on the plastic life history switch between reproductive and arrested (dauer) developmental stages in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, we characterized the molecular nature of enhanced sensitivity to dauer-inducing cues in the wild isolate JU751. This isolate has the unique tendency to readily form dauers not only at moderate population density but also in response to an array of diverse, yet relatively mild environmental stressors (high temperature, starvation, oxidative stress, pathogens). Based on QTL mapping, we identified a 92bp deletion in the presumptive promoter region of the gene eak-3 – drastically reducing eak-3 expression in JU751 – as the underlying causal variant.Eak-3 is exclusively expressed in the endocrine XXX cells, indicative of its role in affecting signalling through the steroid hormone dafachronic acid, the central downstream component controlling the binary dauer decision. Constitutively reduced levels of eak-3 thus reduce steroid hormone levels, hence lowering the environmental sensitivity threshold for dauer induction, consistent with the observed enhancement of JU751 dauer induction in response to any of several different environmental cues. Therefore, evolution of increased environmental sensitivity of the JU751 dauer decision has occurred through modulation of a hormonal level. Testing for potential pleiotropic consequences of the eak-3 variant in JU751 using allelic replacement lines, we find this deletion to cause a subtle, yet significant delay of postembryonic reproductive growth in favourable conditions, delaying age at reproduction by ~3 hours. This developmental delay is indeed due to reduced steroid hormone signalling, suggesting that acquisition of the eak-3 deletion in JU751 has led to the emergence of a trade-off between developmental timing and environmental sensitivity of a plasticity switch. Consistent with this scenario, we experimentally show the eak-3 deletion allele to be rapidly outcompeted in environments favouring reproductive (non-dauer) growth; in contrast, the deletion may provide a significant fitness advantage through facilitated dauer production in highly stressful environments. Together, our results show how a specific molecular change can underlie the evolution of adaptive developmental plasticity, and they further provide a rare example illustrating how seemingly complex life history trade-offs can emerge through hormonal pleiotropy caused by a single genetic change
Boyer, Anne-Lise. "De la ville-oasis à la ville désert. L'adaptation urbaine à la rareté de l'eau à Phoenix et à Tucson (Arizona)." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSEN069.
Full textIn the context of climate change, as droughts intensify and as more areas are subject to high water stress, this dissertation focuses on how to manage the imbalance between water resource availability and growing demand in two metropolises of the arid West of the United States. Located in the Sonoran Desert and built on the model of the oasis city, Phoenix and Tucson take the socio-ecological stakes of water scarcity to the extreme. This study proposes to consider these two cities as laboratories for urban adaptation to climate change to explore competing modalities of adaptation to water scarcity. Using an urban political ecology framework, the goal is to observe and analyze the power struggles between stakeholders involved in water resource management in a context where the system of large hydraulic infrastructures underpinning urban growth is increasingly called into question. This mixed-methods survey brings together critical discourse analysis to deconstruct the dominant arguments and position-takings on water conservation, semi-structured interviews with water sector actors (institutions and environmental activists) and participant observation to question the tensions between discourses and changes in urban practices at the local level for adapting the urban metabolism to a world of less water. This thesis shows, on the one hand, that adaptation strategies are implemented by dominant actors within the framework of socio-ecological fixes in order to maintain the growth trajectory of particularly attractive cities. On the other hand, it highlights the role that citizen empowerment plays in the emergence of alternatives and shows that environmental alternatives play an important role in regulating resource control strategies and overcoming traditional resource-based management paradigms
Mountassir, Mahjoub El. "Surveillance d'intégrité des structures par apprentissage statistique : application aux structures tubulaires." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0047.
Full textTo ensure better working conditions of civil and engineering structures, inspections must be made on a regular basis. However, these inspections could be labor-intensive and cost-consuming. In this context, structural health monitoring (SHM) systems using permanently attached transducers were proposed to ensure continuous damage diagnostic of these structures. In SHM, damage detection is generally based on comparison between the healthy state signals and the current signals. Nevertheless, the environmental and operational conditions will have an effect on the healthy state signals. If these effects are not taken into account they would result in false indication of damage (false alarm). In this thesis, classical machine learning methods used for damage detection have been applied in the case of pipelines. The effects of some measurements parameters on the robustness of these methods have been investigated. Afterthat, two approaches were proposed for damage diagnostic depending on the database of reference signals. If this database contains large variation of these EOCs, a sparse estimation of the current signal is calculated. Then, the estimation error is used as an indication of the presence of damage. Otherwise, if this database is acquired at limited range of EOCs, moving window PCA can be applied to update the model of the healthy state provided that the EOCs show slow and continuous variation. In both approaches, damage localization was ensured using a sliding window over the damaged pipe signal
Lamour, Anais. "L’adoption de technologies climato-intelligentes par les petits producteurs au Costa Rica." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTD042/document.
Full textSmallholding agriculture lies at the crossroads of mitigation and adaptation strategies. Both mitigation efforts to limit the atmospheric accumulation of greehouse gases and adaptation measures that aim to at least maintain agricultural yields and incomes in the face of climate change will be instrumental in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. This dissertation explores the adoption of climate-smart technologies by Costa Rican smallholders in the two main farming systems of the country, namely high-quality coffee plantations and extensive cattle-ranching farms. I present the resultsof three studies that use primary data to investigate opportunities and challenges for scaling-up agroforestry and silvopastoralism. Potential barriers that put strain on technology adoption by rural households in the developing world are outlined in the introduction. In the first Chapter, a representative coffee farm model of land allocation between production technologies is used to explore the tradeoff between adopting coffee agroforestry - a well-documented option for both mitigation and adaptation - and dealing with market risks. Based on a Choice Experiment conducted with 207 farmers, Chapter 2 assesses the willingness of coffee farmers to adopt various agroforestry-based strategies, under various types of support. Chapter 3 evaluates the effectiveness of a national cost-share program promoting the adoption of technological packages consistent with silvopastoralism-based intensification among cattle ranchers. It provides estimates of the impact of participating into the program on both the technology adoption and the land use patterns. Overall, the results of these studies suggest that the adoption of agroforestry and silvopastoralism is costly and can be slowed down due to market frictions. Public interventions can in turn be effective in encouraging smallholders to adopt these technologies through economic incentives. The choice of the technology to be promoted is found to be crucial for the cost-efficiency of such interventions, stressing the relevance of the research conducted
Loire, Rémi. "Les lâchers morphogènes : définition, expérimentations et protocole opérationnel de mise en oeuvre." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEN030/document.
Full textOver the centuries, many rivers have been regulated by dams to meet various needs such as flood management, hydropower production, irrigation, drinking water supply, etc. Today, in the northern third of the planet, 77% of watercourses are affected by dams and a very large number are under construction or planned in the coming decades. The impacts of dams, particularly those with the largest reservoirs, are now well-known. Their influence, more or less pronounced, can affect floods (flow, frequency, peak and duration), which results in a change of the occurrence of the natural "channel morphing discharge" in the downstream reaches. The result is a modified river morphology and dynamics, with impacts on biological communities and uses. In order to improve/restore aquatic and riparian environments, dam managers are increasingly being asked to generate high flows, known as "flushing flows” or “ecomorphogenic flows”, from their dams.This thesis focuses initially on clarifying the concepts of discharge, water release, and "ecomorphogenic flows”. A new terminology has been proposed that fits into the broader context of “environmental flows” and “ecological flows”. In a second step, previous works and experiments carried out on the Durance River, the Selves River and the Isère River provided elements to build a methodology for implementing ecomorphogenic flow releases as part of adaptive management. This operational methodology is based on a series of successive steps resulting from a preliminary diagnosis. It makes it possible to determine the parameters necessary for designing releases, identifying constraints and defining expected results (target compartments, orders of magnitude of process, etc.) to evaluate the efficiency of the operation. Finally, through the implementation of trigger indicators, it provides evaluation information to decide whether to renew, or improve releases or to replace them with other management actions
Méndez-Vera, José. "Understanding how evolution affects the spatial dynamics of interacting species." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUS262.
Full textSelective pressures on organisms are constantly changing due to multiple factors, such as climate change and the introduction of exotic species. Empirical evidence shows that interspecific interactions and evolution can have important effects on species distributions, independently or simultaneously. We are thus in need of models capable of describing the effects of both these factors, in order to better understand the drivers of species geographical distributions in a changing world. In this thesis we explored the effects of adaptation to environmental gradients under two different interaction scenarios: in a monospecific context and for a two-species predator-prey community. In a third time, we studied the effects of adaptation to pathogens in an invasion scenario, where three species interact: a native population and an exotic competitor co-introduced with a pathogen. The studied models reveal the effects of adaptation and interaction through eco-evolutionary propagation speeds that are closely linked to the species' adaptation potentials. We discuss implications of these results for description and interpretation of currently utilized Species Distribution Models
Gerardin, Noé. "Vers une centralité de la Région ? Émergence et affirmation du rôle de la Région Île-de-France en matière climat-air-énergie." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLA007/document.
Full textThe rising power of regions seems obvious in academic literature in France and abroad. What is the contribution of emerging issues such as environment to this shift? Is there such an increasing power of regions in the climate, air, and energy field? If so, how does it happen? To answer these questions, this doctoral thesis focuses on the changing role of the Île-de-France regional council in climate, air and energy policies since the 90’s. The study highlights an increase in power of the Île-de-France Region (also known as « Paris Region ») to address climate, air, and energy issues. This Region has taken a major position among all stakeholders. This observation has been made possible through a combination of a law and political sciences approaches. It allowed to study the actors, their relationships, their area of competence, their constraints, their means, and the way they use it. We studied in this doctoral thesis the jurisdiction of the Île-de-France regional council, its human and financial resources, its positioning regarding other actors in the region, and the way the regional council uses legal rules. Two schemes seem to be essential to understand the increasingly central position of the Île-de-France regional council on climate, air, and energy questions: first, the climate, air, and energy regional plan (schéma régional du climat, de l’air et de l’énergie) and then the chef de file (which could be translate by “leadership role”) of regional councils
Bünzli, Noé. "Entre complexité et mise en œuvre : l’interprétation de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques en contexte municipal québécois." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24119.
Full textFor a long time, when facing the daunting challenge of climate changes, the emphasis has been put on the efforts to mitigate greenhouses gases emissions. Yet, when it became clear that our ecosystems were subjects to some deep transformations that were irreversible, the notion of “adaptation” slowly gain traction at the turn of the 21st century. Thus, while the municipalities, as government of proximity, are considered as increasingly important actors in this adaptation scheme, the program Climat-Municipalité offered the opportunity to four municipal entities in Quebec to produce a Climate Change Adaptation Plan (CCAP) between 2009 and 2016. The question is then raised: how is climate change adaptation interpreted at the local level in Quebec? And, to be more specific, how is the Adaptation interpreted as a process and how is Adaptation interpreted as an action? After all, one the greatest challenge of Adaptation is that difficult transition from awareness of climate issues to the operationalization of this realization, whether through concrete implementation or even through a simply better and complex understanding of the hardships faced by our society. Indeed, this global phenomenon of climate change, that can be felt throughout this planet where few ecosystems escape human influence, is at the same time a technical, psychological and sociopolitical challenge. As our analysis of the CCAP of Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke and Laval shows, those plans represent great “first steps” in the right direction, but they are still insufficient. Their ambition, their inner mechanics and their reach are, at least for now, too limited to guarantee the stability and sustainability of territories and populations. Their mostly short-term and reactive vision helps prepare for today’s challenges but doesn’t ensure our societies the capacity to face tomorrow’s shocks.