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Ostracode Research Activities in

NEW CALEDONIA

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Hoibian, Thierry. I begun last year another survey about ecological distribution of actual ostracods from the Thio estuary, situated on the east coast of New-Caledonia, from fresh water to marine coral reefs environments, with the aim to compare estuaries of the east coast, exposed to trade winds, more humid and those of the west coast, drier. I made also some progress in the study of the relation between seaweeds and ostracods species (and other biotopes) of coral reef flats with the aim of paleoenvironmental reconstruction. I am also working on a project concerning climatic incidences on benthic ostracods populations in transitionnal estuarine environments of the intertropical zone (with examples from the Thio estuary and the Nera delta - Bourail - New-Caledonia). I am also interested in the incidence of anthropogenic factors on ostracods distributions and short time evolution. I am presently completing a database on ostracods of the sousth west pacific and developing GIS for environmental survey (including ostracods).

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