PROTEKER

Name: PROTEKER
Start: 2011-12-20
End: 2012-01-05
Location: Southern Ocean

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Ship	La Curieuse
Ship owner	IPEV
Dates	20/12/2011 - 05/01/2012
Chief scientist(s)	FERAL Jean-Pierre
	INST MED. BIODIVERSITE & ÉCOLOGIE MARINE ET CONTINENTALE IMBE - UMR7263 Station Marine d'Endoume Chemin de la Batterie des Lions 13007 MARSEILLE +33 (0)4 91 04 16 14 https://www.imbe.fr/
DOI	10.17600/11220020
Objective	Impact of climate change on benthos and marine habitats in the Kerguelen islands. Setting up a baseline for ecological and genetic monitoring, protection and conservation. IPEV programme No 1044. PROTEKER is a pilot programme (installation of a coastal sea floor observatory) which will be the basis for future studies or studies underway, of national, European or international scope. While searching and choosing sites, advantage was taken to collect organisms for programmes currently under way: Collecting of Abatus cordatus, Mytilus edulis and other invertebrates. The dates of days at sea were: from 20/12/2011 to 23/12/2011 - Gulf of Morbihan; from 25/12/2011 to 29/12/2011 - North Kerguelen, Choiseul and Baleiniers sectors; from 31/12/2011 to 05/01/2012 - South Kerguelen, Bay of Audierne and Bay of Swains sector.

Sea/Ocean

Southern Ocean

(Iles Kerguelen)

Ports

Port of departure : Port-aux-Français (Antarctica)

Port of return : Port-aux-Français (Antarctica)

Scientific Authority

INST MED. BIODIVERSITE & ÉCOLOGIE MARINE ET CONTINENTALE

IMBE - UMR7263

Station Marine d'Endoume

13007 MARSEILLE

+33 (0)4 91 04 16 14

https://www.imbe.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

CNRS, MNHN, Université de Dijon, Université de Nantes, Université libre de Bruxelles, Université de Santiago du Chili

Discipline(s)

ENVIRONMENT
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B17	Phytobenthos Global	-	FERAL Jean-Pierre
B18	Zoobenthos Global	-	FERAL Jean-Pierre
B20	Molluscs Récolte plongée	-	FERAL Jean-Pierre
B21	Crustaceans Récolte plongée	-	FERAL Jean-Pierre

Summary of measurements

-18 dives performed to select the sites for ecological and genetic monitoring of a seabed observatory at Kerguelen.
-6 sites were chosen (2 per station selected, at depths of 5m and 15m). 8 were equipped with a thermo-recorder and 4 were prepared (at 5m).
-The thermo-loggers were programmed to start recording on 6 January 2012 at intervals of one measurement per hour. The manufacturer gives their recording capacity as 4 years.
-Morbihan bay: Ile Haute: 15 m and 5 m depth and Ile Longue: 15 m and 5 m / Choiseul sector: Port Chrismas: 15 m.
-Baleiniers sector: Ilot des Trois Bergers (Port Couvreux): 15 m and Audierne sector: Fjord des Portes Noires: 15 m and Iles du Prince de Monaco: 15 m.
-Samples (mostly quadra) were pre-sorted, fixed and wrapped for identification.
-Collecting and studying Abatus cordatus, Mytilus edulis, Mytilus edulis, Latternula elliptica, Yoldia eightsi, Neobuccinum eatoni, Abatus cordatus and Odontaster validus.
-A species check list has been started in the form of a database, compliant with current (WORMS and ERMS) nomenclature, which will contain photos of live species in their environment.

Location map

Bibliography

Publications

Arnould-Pétré Margot, Guillaumot Charlène, Danis Bruno, Féral Jean-Pierre, Saucède Thomas (2021). Individual-based model of population dynamics in a sea urchin of the Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Ocean), Abatus cordatus, under changing environmental conditions. Ecological Modelling, 440, 109352 (15p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109352 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00661/77319/

Guillaumot Charlene, Martin Alexis, Eleaume Marc, Saucede Thomas (2018). Methods for improving species distribution models in data-poor areas: example of sub-Antarctic benthic species on the Kerguelen Plateau. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 594, 149-164. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12538

Feral Jean-Pierre, Saucede Thomas, Poulin Elie, Marschal Christian, Marty Gilles, Roca Jean-Claude, Motreuil Sebastien, Beurier Jean-Pierre (2016). PROTEKER: implementation of a submarine observatory at the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean). Underwater Technology, 34(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.3723/ut.34.003