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Tarik Meziane is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research spans multiple areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on marine and coastal ecosystems and their dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aquatic Science
  • Environmental Chemistry

The topics Tarik Meziane has explored cover areas relevant to marine ecology and environmental processes, including:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Meziane has worked closely with several co-authors including:

  • Fredéric Olivier
  • Laurent Chauvaud
  • Réjean Tremblay
  • Cédric Hubas
  • Najet Thiney

Their scientific output has appeared in various publication venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Marine Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers by Tarik Meziane include:

  • "Public Perceptions of Mangrove Forests Matter for Their Conservation" (2020) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Assessing the impacts of anthropogenic sounds on early stages of benthic invertebrates: The "Larvosonic system"" (2022) published in Limnology and Oceanography Methods
  • "Functional diversity of microboring Ostreobium algae isolated from corals" (2020) published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Shells of the bivalveAstarte moerchi give new evidence of a strong pelagic-benthic coupling shift occurring since the late 1970s in the North Water polynya" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Contrasting organic matter composition in pristine and eutrophicated mangroves revealed by fatty acids and stable isotopes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)" (2022) published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

Best Publications

  • Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

    Gwenaël Abril;Jean-Michel Martinez;L. Felipe Artigas;Patricia Moreira-Turcq

  • Fatty acids as tracers of organic matter in the sediment and food web of a mangrove/intertidal flat ecosystem, Okinawa, Japan

    Tarik Meziane;Makoto Tsuchiya

  • Symbiotic zooxanthellae provide the host-coral Montipora digitata with polyunsaturated fatty acids.

    M. Papina;T. Meziane;R. van Woesik

  • Growth and condition indices in juvenile sole Solea solea measured to assess the quality of essential fish habitat

    Rachid Amara;Tarik Méziane;C. Gilliers;G. Hermel

  • Highly Dynamic Cellular-Level Response of Symbiotic Coral to a Sudden Increase in Environmental Nitrogen

    C. Kopp;M. Pernice;I. Domart-Coulon;C. Djediat

  • Organic matter in a subtropical mangrove-estuary subjected to wastewater discharge: Origin and utilisation by two macrozoobenthic species

    Tarik Meziane;Makoto Tsuchiya

  • Fatty acids as trophic tracers in an experimental estuarine food chain: Tracer transfer

    David Hall;Shing Yip Lee;Tarik Meziane;Tarik Meziane

  • Litter dynamics and particulate organic matter outwelling from a subtropical mangrove in Okinawa Island, South Japan

    Prosper L. Mfilinge;Tarik Meziane;Zainudin Bachok;Makoto Tsuchiya

  • Impacts of shrimp farm effluent on water quality, benthic metabolism and N-dynamics in a mangrove forest (New Caledonia)

    Nathalie Molnar;David Thomas Welsh;Cyril Marchand;Jonathan Deborde

  • The use of lipid markers to define sources of organic matter in sediment and food web of the intertidal salt-marsh-flat ecosystem of Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France

    Tarik Meziane;Laurent Bodineau;Christian Retiere;Guy Thoumelin

  • Tracing soil organic carbon in the lower Amazon River and its tributaries using GDGT distributions and bulk organic matter properties

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Claudia Zell;Patricia Moreira-Turcq;Marcela A.P. Pérez

  • Stable isotope and fatty acid tracers in energy and nutrient studies of jellyfish: a review

    Kylie Anne Pitt;Rod Martin Connolly;T. Meziane

  • Role of fiddler crabs of a subtropical intertidal flat on the fate of sedimentary fatty acids

    Tarik Meziane;M.C. Sanabe;M. Tsuchiya

  • Ontogenetic change in the lipid and fatty acid composition of scleractinian coral larvae

    Joana Figueiredo;Andrew H. Baird;Andrew H. Baird;Michael S Cohen;Michael S Cohen;Jean-François Flot;Jean-François Flot

  • Investigating the distribution and sources of organic matter in surface sediment of Coombabah Lake (Australia) using elemental, isotopic and fatty acid biomarkers

    Ryan Jay Keith Dunn;David Thomas Welsh;David Thomas Welsh;Peter Teasdale;Peter Teasdale;Shing Yip Lee;Shing Yip Lee

  • Organisms as cooperative ecosystem engineers in intertidal flats

    Claire Passarelli;Frédéric Olivier;Frédéric Olivier;David M. Paterson;Tarik Meziane

  • Fate of mangrove organic matter along a subtropical estuary: small-scale exportation and contribution to the food of crab communities

    Tarik Meziane;Frederique D'Agata;Shing Yip Lee

  • Growth and condition indices of juvenile turbot, Scophthalmus maximus, exposed to contaminated sediments: effects of metallic and organic compounds.

    E. Kerambrun;F. Henry;F. Henry;P. Perrichon;L. Courcot;L. Courcot

  • Fatty acid and stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) signatures of particulate organic matter in the lower Amazon River: Seasonal contrasts and connectivity between floodplain lakes and the mainstem

    Jean-Michel Mortillaro;Gwenaël Abril;Patricia Moreira-Turcq;R.L. Sobrinho

  • Oxygen and nutrient dynamics of the upside down jellyfish (Cassiopea sp.) and its influence on benthic nutrient exchanges and primary production

    David Thomas Welsh;Ryan Jay Keith Dunn;Tarik Meziane

  • Fatty acids in decomposing mangrove leaves : microbial activity, decay and nutritional quality

    Prosper L. Mfilinge;Tarik Meziane;Zainudin Bachok;Makoto Tsuchiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Olivier
Frédéric Olivier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Shing Yip Lee
Shing Yip Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gwenaël Abril
Gwenaël Abril Biologie des Organismes et Écosystèmes Aquatiques
Réjean Tremblay
Réjean Tremblay Université du Québec à Rimouski
David T. Welsh
David T. Welsh Griffith University
Rachid Amara
Rachid Amara University of Lille
Philippe Archambault
Philippe Archambault Université Laval
Laurent Chauvaud
Laurent Chauvaud University of Western Brittany
Laurent Seuront
Laurent Seuront Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yves Letourneur
Yves Letourneur University of New Caledonia

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