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Late Quaternary changes in bat palaeobiodiversity and palaeobiogeography under climatic and anthropogenic pressure: new insights from Marie-Galante, …
2016
25 pages; International audience; Data on Lesser Antillean Late Quaternary fossil bat assemblages remains limited, leading to their general exclusion from studies focusing on Caribbean bat palaeobiodiversity and palaeobiogeography. Additionally, the role of climatic versus human pressure driving changes in faunal communities remains poorly understood. Here we describe a fossil bat assemblage from Blanchard Cave on Marie-Galante in the Lesser Antilles, which produced numerous bat remains from a well-dated, stratified context. Our study reveals the occurrence of at least 12 bat species during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on Marie-Galante, whereas only eight species are currently kn…
Low contribution of Caribbean-based researchers to academic publications on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean.
2021
11 pages; International audience; The insular Caribbean is among the most threatened global biodiversity hotspots, warranting urgent and effective action in conservation. However, the capacity of Caribbean-based researchers to address challenges in biodiversity conservation appears limited. To assess the latter, we used the contribution of Caribbean-based authors to the production of peer-reviewed journal papers on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean as a proxy for research capacity. Moreover, because the insular Caribbean is a complex geopolitical system including sovereign states and overseas territories, we examined the contributions of these two groups to the number of pa…
Evolutionary History of the Nesophontidae, the Last Unplaced Recent Mammal Family
2016
The mammalian evolutionary tree has lost several major clades through recent human-caused extinctions. This process of historical biodiversity loss has particularly affected tropical island regions such as the Caribbean, an area of great evolutionary diversification but poor molecular preservation. The most enigmatic of the recently extinct endemic Caribbean mammals are the Nesophontidae, a family of morphologically plesiomorphic lipotyphlan insectivores with no consensus on their evolutionary affinities, and which constitute the only major recent mammal clade to lack any molecular information on their phylogenetic placement. Here, we use a palaeogenomic approach to place Nesophontidae with…
2019
Ingested soil is a major vector of organic contaminants from environment to free-ranged animals, particularly for grazing herbivores. Therefore, a better understanding of processes driving soil intake may provide new insights to limit animal exposure to contaminants and ensure safety of animal products. To maintain the supply service of livestock farming activities in contaminated areas, it is necessary to design adapted farming practices aiming at controlling the risk for human health. This study was conducted in the French West Indies, where chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide previously used to protect banana plantation against the black weevil and banned since 1993, has polluted …
Life of Krembegi according to Pierre Clastres
2010
Nell'articolo si analizza un capitolo centrale dell'opera Chronique des Indiens Guayaki di Pierre Clastres. L'analisi della storia di vita illustrata nel testo mostra come l'autore adotti stilemi tipici del romanzo poliziesco per raccontare in forma narrativa la sua ipotesi interpretativa sulla struttura sociale dei Guayaki.
Faut-il provincialiser les Lumières
2013
OS nat; National audience; no abstract
Précipitations à Madagascar, Mayotte, la Réunion et les Îles Éparses durant la saison des pluies (1971-1999) : rôle et contribution des talwegs tropi…
2014
7 pages; International audience; Cette étude, sur la base d’un jeu de données pluviométriques original, recherche les mécanismes à l’origine de lavariabilité spatiotemporelle des précipitations journalières observées sur Madagascar, Mayotte, La Réunion et les îlesÉparses. L’étude se concentre sur le début et le coeur de l’été austral de 1971 à 1999. Un focus sur la contribution desTalwegs Tropicaux-Tempérés (TTT) est réalisé. Dans une première partie, une classification sur les séries de précipitationsde vingt-neuf stations a mis en évidence six types de jours et de mécanismes associés. La classe sèche est associée à desanomalies cycloniques, deux des cinq classes dont associées à des TTT, …
Biodechlord : à la recherche de traces de dégradation microbienne du chlordécone dans les sols contaminés des Antilles
2014
Session 5 - Milieux impactés / Impacted mediaSession 5 - Milieux impactés / Impacted media; Objectives: Chlordecone was intensively used in the French West Indies (FWI) to control the banana weewil. Recent surveys showed that arable soils cropped with banana, representing up to 20,000 ha, are contaminated this insecticide with concentrations ranging between 0.2 and 37.4 mg kg−1. Chlordecone was classified as a persistent organic pollutant in May 2009. It is not only contaminating soil resources but also water resources where it is often detected. This insecticide is bioaccumulated in different plant and animals thereby contaminating the food chain causing an important human health. This con…
Rabindranath Tagore, première figure d'une histoire littéraire (vraiment) mondiale ?
2015
Rabindranath Tagore: the First Figure of a Literary History that is Truly Worldly? Drawing on the work of Rabindranath Tagore, this article identifies the conditions of a literary history that would be truly worldly. The idea is not to establish an anthology of universal literature (defined according to the literary value of its texts), nor to assess or quantify the flows of global literature (defined according to its diffusion), but to identify a literature produced by cross-fertilizations that exceed national idiosyncrasies: what the author identifies as cosmopolitan literature.
Romain Rolland et ses réseaux indiens : une mondialité littéraire et intellectuelle en gestation
2015
International audience; no abstract