{"id":4143,"date":"2015-06-09T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T20:06:48","slug":"thirty-year-recovery-of-mollusc-communities-after-nuclear-tests-on-a-french-polynesian-atoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/thirty-year-recovery-of-mollusc-communities-after-nuclear-tests-on-a-french-polynesian-atoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-year recovery of mollusc communities after nuclear tests on a French Polynesian atoll<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 30-year study on a Pacific atoll used for nuclear testing shows that all reefs developed a community composition quite different from that before the tests as the result of random settlement of larvae from the open ocean. Fangataufa atoll located in south-central Pacific (French Polynesia) has been used as a nuclear testing site for four atmospheric nuclear tests between 1966 and 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The French government asked ecologists to survey molluscs such as snails and slugs that were partly or entirely wiped out when nuclear bombs were exploded. In 2 out of 3 reefs studied on the atoll, species richness was higher after the nuclear tests than before, indicating that the reefs were again suitable habitats for the fauna.<\/p>\n<p>This study shows that random processes are an important factor in the diversity of species found in an ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.bio.umontreal.ca\/department-directory\/vue\/legendre-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Legendre<\/a><\/span>, Department of Biological Sciences, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year study on a Pacific atoll used for nuclear testing shows that all reefs developed a community composition quite different from that before the tests as the result of random settlement of larvae from the open ocean. Fangataufa atoll located in south-central Pacific (French Polynesia) has been used as a nuclear testing site for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,1445,215],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-14P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}