Salmonids in the Kerguelen archipelago

The subantartic islands of Kerguelen are located in the Southern Ocean. They are home to a remarkable biodiversity. But many other species have also being introduced there, willingly or unwillingly.

In the 1950's, France decided to introduce 8 salmonid species on the previously fish-free freshwater ecosystems of Kerguelen, so to supply food for human presence.

The SALMEVOL project, led by INRAe and supported by the French Polar Institute and the Zone Atelier Antarctique et Terres Australes, has documented the ecology and the evolutionary dynamics of these species, since their very introduction.

On this site, we provide a glimpse of our data regarding fish captures, tissue samples, life history traits, and colonization dynamics.

Source : ECOBIOP-INRAE


We here provide access to our data and sample collections :

  • Access to capture data :

https://doi.org/10.57745/CJPP5T


  • Access to colonization data :

https://doi.org/10.57745/HEPGAG


  • Access to samples data and collections :

COLISA collections

https://doi.org/10.57745/MKR3GA



This Shiny interface was programmed in the R framework. It is the result of a collaborative training work with students from the UPPA (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Master Sciences de l'eau parcours Dynamique des Ecosystemes Aquatiques :


Source : Maxime Descat

Maxime Descat


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Source : Anais Paulin-Fayolle

Anais Paulin-Fayolle


anaispfl@orange.fr
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Source : Tiffany Lefebvre

Tiffany Lefebvre


tiffany142@hotmail.fr
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Source : Laura Vallee

Laura Vallee


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In this task, they have been assisted by scientists from INRAE , ECOBIOP Lab .

The data are part of a Long Term Ecological Monitoring (SALMEVOL 1041 IPEV Program) focusing on the evolutionary ecology of introduced salmonids in the Kerguelen Islands.

This research is part of the Zone Atelier Antarctique et Terres Australes framework, and is carried out thanks to the support of the French Polar Institute French Polar Institute.

Technical support brought by IE ECP.


Source : ECOBIOP-INRAE

Jacques Labonne


jacques.labonne@inrae.fr

Head of the ECOBIOP Lab.
He develops research in behavioural ecology, evolutionary ecology and demogenetic modelling.

Source : ECOBIOP-INRAE

Francois Gueraud


francois.gueraud@inrae.fr

Lab technician, dedicated to scales reading, collections maintenance, data curation and access. He compiles data tracing back to 1962.



Here is a list of scientific studies that have contributed to and benefited from to our database :


Aulus-Giacosa, L., Aymes, J.-C., Gaudin, P., & Vignon, M. (2019). Hierarchical variance decomposition of fish scale growth and age to investigate the relative contributions of readers and scales. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(12), 1828. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19059


Aulus-Giacosa, L. 2021. Spatio-temporal evolution of life history traits related to dispersal. Brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) colonization of the subAntarctic Kerguelen Islands. PhD thesis manuscript. Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour.


Aulus-Giacosa, L., Gueraud, F., Gaudin, P., Buoro, M., Aymes, J. C., Labonne, J., & Vignon, M. (2021). Human influence on Brown trout juvenile body size during metapopulation expansion. Biology letters, 17(10), 20210366. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0366


Aulus-Giacosa, L., Gueraud, F., Gaudin, P., Buoro, M., Aymes, J. C., Labonne, J., & Vignon, M. (In prep) Trends in size-dependent reaction norm for seaward migration of Brown trout (Salmo trutta) following introduction to the Kerguelen Islands.


Davidsen, J.G., Bordeleau, X., Havarstein Eldoy, S., Whoriskey, F., Power, M., Crossin, G.T., Buhariwalla, C., & Gaudin, P. (accepted). Marine habitat use and feeding ecology of introduced anadromous Brown trout at the colonization front of the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen archipelago. Scientific Reports 11, 11917 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91405-x


Eldoy, S. H., Davidsen, J. G., Vignon, M., & Power, M. (2021). The biology and feeding ecology of Arctic charr in the Kerguelen Islands. Journal of Fish Biology, 98(2), 526-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14596


Ferchiou S, Caza F, Villemur R, Labonne J, St-Pierre Y. Skin and Blood Microbial Signatures of Sedentary and Migratory Trout (Salmo trutta) of the Kerguelen Islands. Fishes. 2023; 8(4):174. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8040174


Jarry, M., Beall, E., Davaine, P., Gueraud, F., Gaudin, P., Aymes, J.-C., Labonne, J., & Vignon, M. (2018). Sea trout (Salmo trutta) growth patterns during early steps of invasion in the Kerguelen Islands. Polar Biology, 41(5), 925-934. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2253-1


Labonne, J., Vignon, M., Prevost, E., Lecomte, F., Dodson, J. J., Kaeuffer, R., Aymes, J.-C., Jarry, M., Gaudin, P., Davaine, P., & Beall, E. (2013b). Invasion Dynamics of a Fish-Free Landscape by Brown Trout (Salmo trutta). PLoS ONE, 8(8), e71052. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071052


Labonne, J., Kaeuffer, R., Gueraud, F., Zhou, M., Manicki, A., & Hendry, A. P. (2016). From the bare minimum : Genetics and selection in populations founded by only a few parents. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 17(1), 21-34.


Labonne, J., Manicki, A., Chevalier, L., Tetillon, M., Gueraud, F., & Hendry, A. P. (2020). Using Reciprocal Transplants to Assess Local Adaptation, Genetic Rescue, and Sexual Selection in Newly Established Populations. Genes, 12(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12010005


Labonne, J., Aymes, J.-C., Beall, E., Chat, J., Dopico-Rodriguez, E. V., Garcia Vasquez, E., Gaudin, P., Gueraud, F., Henry, A., Horreo-Escandon, J.-L., Huteau, D., Jarry, M., Kaeuffer, R., Lecomte, F., Manicki, A., Rives, J., Roussel, J.-M., Tremblay, J., VIGNON, M., & Zhou, M. (2013a). Ecologie evolutive de la colonisation des iles Kerguelen par les salmonides (p. 77 p. + annexes) [Contract]. auto-saisine. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01210200


Lecomte, F., Beall, E., Chat, J., Davaine, P., & Gaudin, P. (2013). The complete history of salmonid introductions in the Kerguelen Islands, Southern Ocean. Polar Biology, 36(4), 457-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-012-1281-5


Marandel, L., Gaudin, P., Gueraud, F., Glise, S., Herman, A., Plagnes-Juan, E., Veron, V., Panserat, S., & Labonne, J. (2018). A reassessment of the carnivorous status of salmonids : Hepatic glucokinase is expressed in wild fish in Kerguelen Islands. Science of The Total Environment, 612, 276-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.247


Vignon, M., Zhou, M., McIntosh, A.R. et al. Trait variation in a successful global invader: a large-scale analysis of morphological variance and integration in the brown trout. Biol Invasions 25, 1659-1677 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03003-9

On this map, you can browse all the capture data for the various species of salmonids. Zoom in to uncluster the data, and click on captures to obtain more information.

If you wish to narrow the temporal window, just move the sliders below to your convenience.

On this map, you can browse all the samples of our collections. Zoom in to uncluster the data, and click on sample to obtain more information.

If you wish to narrow the temporal window, just move the sliders below to your convenience.

On this map, you can observe the dynamics of colonization for each of the five remaining salmonid species in Kerguelen islands.

Move the slider to track the presence of the selected species over time.