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The natural history of Santo

Résumé

A la découverte de la géographie dEspiritu Santo, cette « île-planète » de l'archipel du Vanatu : ses habitats et ses peuplements, sa faune et sa flore et les relations entre lhomme et la nature. A la fois richement illustré et bilan des connaissances scientifiques, cet ouvrage se veut un outil de connaissances pour sa conservation durable.


  • Autre(s) auteur(s)
  • Éditeur(s)
  • Date
    • impr. 2011
  • Notes
    • Bibliogr.
    • En anglais
  • Langues
    • Anglais
  • Description matérielle
    • 1 vol. (569 p.) : ill. en coul., cartes, graph., couv. ill. en coul. ; 30 cm
  • Collections
  • Sujet(s)
  • Lieu
  • ISBN
    • 978-2-85653-627-8 ;
    • 978-2-7099-1708-7
  • Indice
    • 573.1(95) Protection de la nature, de la faune, de la flore, écosystèmes. Mélanésie
  • Tables des matières
      • The Natural History of Santo

      • Philippe Bouchet/Hervé Le Guyader/Olivier Pascal

      • Institut de recherche pour le développement

      • Foreword by Edward Natapei, Prime Minister of Vanuatu 10
      • Introduction. The Natural History of Santo: An Attempt to Bridge the Gap between Academic Research and Consevation and Education 11
      • Vanuatu in the South Pacific 13
      • Benoît Antheaume
      • Espiritu Santo in space and time 17
      • coordinated by Bruno Corbara
      • The Late Quaternaty Reefs 19
      • Guy Cabioch & Frederick W. Taylor
      • The Holocene and Pleistocene Marine Faunas Reconsidered 25
      • Pierre Lozouet, Alan Beu, Philippe Maestrati, Rufino Pineda & Jean-Louis Reyss
      • Geography of Santo and of the Sanma Province 34
      • Patricia Siméoni
      • Drainage, Hydrology and Fluvial Geomorphology 46
      • James P. Terry
      • The Climate of Santo 52
      • James P. Terry
      • Large-scale Climatic and Oceanic Conditions around Santo 57
      • Christophe Maes & David Varillon
      • A Brief History of Biodiversity Exploration and Scientific Expeditions on and off the Island of Santo 62
      • Bruno Corbara & Bertrand Richer de Forges
      • Deforestation on Santo and Logging Operations 67
      • Rufino Pineda
      • The Impact of WWII on Infrastructures and Landscape 69
      • Laurent Palka & Rufino Pineda
      • Conservation Efforts in Santo 71
      • Samson Vilvil-Fare
      • Vegetation and Flora 73
      • coordinated by Jérôme Munzinger & Porter P. Lowry II
      • Exploration by the Santo 2006 Botany Team 75
      • Porter P. Lowry II & Jérôme Munzinger
      • Principal Types of Vegetation Occuring on Santo 76
      • Jérôme Munzinger, Porter P. Lowry II & Jean-Noël Labat
      • Phytogeographic Relationships 77
      • Gordon McPherson
      • How Old are the Kauri (Agathis microphylla) Trees? 83
      • Jonathan Palmer
      • The Flora of Santo 89
      • Some New, Characteristic or Remarkable Species 89
      • Gordon McPherson & Jérôme Munzinger
      • Focus on Araliaceae: Several Genera Exemplify Santo's Melanesian Biogeographic Relations 90
      • Porter P. Lowry II & Gregory M. Plunkett
      • Focus on Geissois (Cunoniaceae): Another Example of the Melanesian Connection 93
      • Yohan Pillon
      • Focus on Pandans 94
      • Thomas Haevermans
      • Focus on Orchids 97
      • Marc Pignal
      • Focus on Palms 102
      • Jean-Michel Dupuyoo
      • Focus on Ferns 105
      • Germinal Rouhan
      • Focus on Bryophytes 110
      • Elizabeth A. Brown
      • Fungi, the Forgotten Kingdom 113
      • Bart Buyck
      • Terrestrial Fauna 117
      • coordinated by Bruno Corbara
      • IBISCA-Santo Biodiversity Along an Altitudinal Gradient 119
      • Bruno Corbara on behalf of the IBISCA network
      • Insects on Santo 123
      • Focus on Orthoptera 123
      • Laure Desutter-Grandcolas, Sylvain Hugel & Tony Robillard
      • Termites in Santo: Lessons from a Survey in the Penaoru Area 128
      • Yves Roisin, Bruno Corbara, Thibaut Delsinne, Jérôme Orivel & Maurice Leponce
      • Focus on Bees and Wasps 131
      • Claire Villemant
      • Myrmecophily in Santo: A Canopy Ant-Plant and its Expected and Less Expected Inhabitants 143
      • Bruno Corbara
      • Beetles in Saratsi Range, Santo 146
      • Alexey K. Tishechkin, Jürgen Schmidl
      • Lepidoptera in Vanuatu: Fauna, Geography and the IBISCA-Santo Project 155
      • Roger L. Kitching
      • Other Invertebrates 161
      • Diversity of Spiders 161
      • Christine Rollard
      • Some Arthropods as Expressed in the Words of Penaoru Villagers 167
      • Bruno Corbara
      • Indigenous Land Snails 169
      • Benoît Fontaine, Olivier Gargominy & Vincent Prié
      • The Vertebrates of Santo 179
      • Terrestrial Bird Communities 179
      • Nicolas Barré, Thibaut Delsinne & Benoït Fontaine
      • Amphibians and Reptiles 187
      • Ivan Ineich
      • Rivers and other Freshwater Habitats 237
      • coordinated by Philippe Keith
      • Freshwater Habitat Types 239
      • Philippe Keith & Clara Lord
      • Freshwater Biota 242
      • Focus on Fish, Shrimps and Crabs 242
      • Philippe Keith, Clara Lord, Philippe Gerbeaux & Donna Kalfatak
      • Focus on Aquatic Insects 251
      • Arnold H. Staniczek
      • Focus on Freshwater Snails 257
      • Yasunori Kano, Elen E. Strong, Benoît Fontaine, Olivier Gargominy, Matthias Glaubrecht & Philippe Bouchet
      • Caves and Soils 265
      • coordinated by Louis Deharveng
      • The Karst Team 267
      • Louis Deharveng & Anne-Marie Sémah
      • Karst and Caves 269
      • Bernard Lips, Franck Bréhier, Denis Wirrmann, Nadir Lasson, Stefan Eberhard, Josiane Lips & Louis Deharveng
      • Caves as Archives 278
      • Denis Wirrmann, Jean-Christophe Galipaud, Anne-Marie Sémah & Tonyo Alcover
      • Ni-Vanuatu Perception and Attitudes Vis-à-Vis the Karstic Environment 284
      • Florence Brunois
      • Karst Habitats of Santo 288
      • Focus on Soils 288
      • Anne Bedos, Vincent Prié & Louis Deharveng
      • Focus on Cave Terrestrial Habitats 296
      • Louis Deharveng, Anne Bedos, Vincent Prié & Éric Queinnec
      • Focus on Guano 300
      • Louis Deharveng, Josiane Lips & Cahyo Rahmadi
      • Focus on Blue Holes 306
      • Stefan Eberhard, Nadir Lasson & Franck Bréhier
      • Focus on the Loren Cave 310
      • Franck Bréhier, Sephan Eberhard & Nadir Lasson
      • Focus on Anchialine Fauna 312
      • Geoff Boxshall & Damià Jaume
      • Karst Biota of Santo 316
      • Focus on Bats 316
      • Vincent Prié
      • Fish and Shrimps of Santo Karstic Systems 323
      • Marc Pouilly & Philippe Keith
      • Focus on Springtails 327
      • Louis Deharveng & Anne Bedos
      • Focus on Microcrustaceans 331
      • Damià Jaume, Geoff Boxshall & Eric Queinnec
      • Marine Ecosystems 335
      • coordinated by Philippe Bouchet
      • Benthic Algal and Seagrass Communities from Santo Island in Relation to Habitat Diversity 337
      • Claude E. Payri
      • The Position of Santo in Relation to the Centre of Maximum Marine Biodiversity (the Coral Triangle) 369
      • Bert W. Hoeksema & Adriaan Gittenberger
      • Focus on Selected (Micro)Habitats 373
      • Sulfide Rich Environments 373
      • Yasunori Kano & Takuma Haga
      • Marine Interstitial 375
      • Timea Neuser
      • Mangroves Environments of South East Santo 377
      • Jean-Claude Plaziat & Pierre Lozouet
      • Focus on Selected Biota 383
      • Checklist of the Fishes 383
      • Ronald Fricke, John L. Earle, Richard L. Pyle & Bernard Séret
      • Unusual and Spectacular Crustaceans 410
      • Tim-Yam Chan, Masako Mitsuhashi, Charles H.J.M. Fransen, Régis Cleva, Swee Hee Tan, Jose Christopher Mendoza, Marivene Manuel-Santos & Peter K.L. Ng
      • The Marine Molluscs of Santo 421
      • Philippe Bouchet, Virginie Héros, Pierre Lozouet, Philippe Maestrati & Rudo von Cosel
      • A Rapid Assessment of the Marine Molluscs of Southeastern Santo 431
      • Fred E. Wells
      • Molluscs on Biogenic Substrates 438
      • Anders Warén
      • Marine Partnerships in Santo's Reef Environments: Parasites, Commensals and Other Organisms that Live in Close Association 449
      • Stefano Schiaparelli, Charles Fransen & Marco Oliverio
      • Seaslugs: The Underwater Jewels of Santo 458
      • Yolanda E. Camacho & Marta Pola
      • Man and Nature 465
      • coordinated by Michel Pascal
      • Pre-European Times 467
      • Vertebrate Pre-Human Fauna of Santo: What Can we Expect to Find? 467
      • Joseph Antoni Alcover
      • The Prehistory of Santo 469
      • Jean-Christophe Galipaud
      • Introduced Biota 476
      • Overview: Introduced Species, the "Good", the "Worrisome" and the "Bad" 476
      • Michel Pascal, Olivier Lorvelec, Nicolas Barré, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky & Marc Pignal
      • Focus on Synanthropic Mammals 480
      • Olivier Lorvelec & Michel Pascal
      • Focus on Feral Mammals 483
      • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky & Anthony Harry
      • Focus on Alien Birds 488
      • Nicolas Barré
      • Focus on Introduced Amphibians and Reptiles 490
      • Olivier Lorvelec & Michel Pascal
      • Focus on Introduced Fish 494
      • Philippe Keith, Clara Lord, Donna Kalfatak & Philippe Gerbeaux
      • Focus on Alien Land Snails 495
      • Olivier Gargominy, Benoît Fontaine & Vincent Prié
      • Endemic, Native, Alien or Cryptogenic? The Controversy of Santo Darkling Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) 500
      • Laurent Soldati
      • The Case of Two Invasive Species: Mikania micrantha and Merremia peltata 503
      • Marc Pignal
      • Man Santo in his Environment 508
      • Food-Garden Biodiversity in Vanuatu 508
      • Sara Muller, Vincent Lebot & Annie Walter
      • At the Junction of Biological Cycles and Custom: the Night of the Palolo 515
      • Laurent Palka
      • Ni-Vanuatu Perceptions and Attitudes Vis-à-Vis Biodiversité 516
      • Florence Brunois & Marine Robillard
      • The Santo 2006 Expedition 523
      • The Santo 2006 Expedition from an Ethnologist's Point of View 525
      • Elsa Faugère
      • The "Making of" Santo 2006 529
      • Philippe Bouchet, Hervé Le Guyader, Olivier Pascal
      • Santo 2006 Expedition in the Classroom 549
      • Sophie Pons & Alain Pothet
      • Santo 2006 Expedition Participants List 550
      • Acknowledgements 553
      • Bibliography 557
      • Addresses of the Authors 564

  • Origine de la notice:
    • FR-751131015 ;
    • Electre
  • Disponible - 573.1(95) BOU

    Niveau 2 - Sciences