COMEAU , Steeve

The study of early life stages such as larval development, settlement, survivorship, and recruit growth iscritical to better understand the resilience and persistence of coral populations. While the deleterious effectsof ocean acidification on calcification and growth on adult corals are well known, the impacts on early lifestages are still...

Abstract. The ability of coral populations to recover from disturbance depends on larval dispersion and recruitment. While ocean warming and acidification effects on adult corals are well documented, information on early life stages is comparatively scarce. Here, we investigate whether ocean warming and acidification can affect the larval and...

Grazing is one of the most important biological factors controlling the abundance of early-life stages of fucoids and one of the major issues when restoring marine forests. Benthic macroinvertebrates (e.g., sea urchins) and fish shape and regulate benthic macroalgal communities from polar to tropical regions and can be responsible for regime...

Marine forests are shrinking globally due to several anthropogenic impacts including climate change. Forest-forming macroalgae, such as Cystoseira s.l. species, can be particularly sensitive to environmental conditions (e.g. temperature increase, pollution or sedimentation), especially during early life stages. However, not much is known about...

Volcanic CO2 vents are ideal sites to study the long-term effects of ocean acidification on long-lived calcified species, such as corals. At the Island of Ischia (Italy), we investigated, both in situand ex situ, whether past exposure to low pH confers physiological tolerance to ocean acidificationin different life stages and affects sexual...