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Fwd: Other: TravelGrants.NouragueResearchStation

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Other: TravelGrants.NouragueResearchStation > Date: 14 September 2024 at 06:45:18 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > Dear everyone, > > The Nouragues research station (https://ift.tt/pyjBiWk), in > French Guiana, is launching an Offer of Travel Grants to Nouragues for > Scientific Interdisciplinarity (OVNIS2024), up to €9,000 per project, > open to any researcher within a research unit associated with the CNRS: > https://ift.tt/VAec0OB. > > This call is open until 30 September 2024. Please visit the page for > more information and share this announcement with your networks. > > > > Elodie SCHLOESING > > Coordinatrice scientifique de la station de recherche des Nouragues > Scientific coordinator of the Nouragues research station > > Site internet / Website : https://ift.tt/5OmyhtT > X : CNRS_Nouragues

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Réserve naturelle nationale des marais de Kaw-Roura

La réserve naturelle nationale des marais de Kaw-Roura (RNN139) est une réserve naturelle nationale située en Guyane. Créée en 1998 et occupant un peu moins de 94 700 hectares, elle est la troisième réserve naturelle de France par sa superficie après celles des Nouragues et des TAF.

Localisation

Périmètre de la réserve naturelle

Le territoire est situé à environ 90 kilomètres au sud-est de Cayenne sur les communes de Roura et de Régina en Guyane et englobe le petit village de Kaw ainsi qu'une partie du littoral. De par sa superficie (94 700 ha), elle est la troisième réserve naturelle de France après celles des Nouragues et des TAAF et la deuxième réserve naturelle terrestre après celle des Nouragues. C'est aussi la plus vaste zone humide de France. Le territoire est encadré par les fleuves Mahury au Nord-Ouest et Approuague à l'Est.

Histoire du site et de la réserve

La forêt de la Montagne de Kaw possède la plus forte pluviométrie de la Guyane, ce qui expliquerait qu'elle aurait servi de refuge pour la faune et la flore lors des périodes de grandes sécheresses de l’ère du Pléistocène Les premiers habitants de la région de Kaw étaient des amérindiens. Les premiers européens arrivent sur les lieux à la fin du xvie siècle et la région de Kaw est colonisée à partir du xviiie siècle

Lever du jour sur le Marais de Kaw

Sur l'eau, réserve de Kaw

Reflets dans l'eau des Marais de Kaw

Caïman noir

La réserve peut être visitée à l'aide de pirogues ou de carbets flottants.

Les avantages du carbet sont en général les suivants :

abaissement de la température dû à la large surface d'ombre qui permet de garder une partie de la fraîcheur nocturne (jusqu'à 7 °C) ; protège de la pluie ; par le jeu du clair-obscur, permet de voir tout en étant partiellement dissimulé ; construction bon marché.

Carbet (architecture) — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)

Réserve naturelle nationale des marais de Kaw-Roura — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)

Zébus du marais de Kaw (source).

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Le grand inventaire de la forêt guyanaise

Pour comprendre l'évolution de la forêt tropicale et son rôle dans le stockage du carbone, des scientifiques recensent régulièrement les arbres dans la réserve des Nouragues. Cette année, plus de 18 000 spécimens doivent ainsi être vérifiés. Mais encore faut-il se frayer un chemin à travers la végétation et éviter chutes, morsures et piqûres en tou

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Mante religieuse de la famille des Mantidae #Choeradodis strumaria pris en photo sur un layon de la station #Pararé de la Réserve naturelle des #Nouragues. By @stef_insecte_guyane --- #WildWideWest #Lagwiyann #frenchsouthamerica #amazonia #amazonie https://www.instagram.com/p/CDr_bpzHoGm/?igshid=1f00t4cccqzv1

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A wild jaguar approaches a camera trap at Nouragues Natural Reserve in French Guiana. (Photo: © Emmanuel Rondeau/WWF France)

Jaguars are the top predator in the Amazon and the largest big cat species in the Americas. They're the third-largest feline on Earth, trailing only lions and tigers. (Photo: © Emmanuel Rondeau/WWF France)

An estimated 64,000 jaguars exist in the wild today, divided into 34 subpopulations — 25 of which are threatened, and eight of which are in danger of extinction. (Photo: © Emmanuel Rondeau/WWF France)

Jaguars have lost about half of their range in the last 100 years, according to the WWF, resulting in reduced and even extinct populations in some countries. (Photo: © Emmanuel Rondeau/WWF France)

Excerpt from this story from Mother Nature Network:

Jaguars are the third-largest cat species on Earth, smaller only than lions and tigers, and the largest one left in the Americas. They're incredibly sneaky despite their size, though, and, excel at fading into the background. They may have been an uncommon sight even in their heyday, when they roamed from Argentina to as far north as the Grand Canyon and Colorado.

Still, they're especially ghostlike today, and not just because of their natural stealth. Jaguars now exist only in fragments of their former range, having been wiped out in many places by generations of habitat loss and hunting. And while camera traps have given us glimpses of these elusive cats in recent years, including some in the U.S., the image quality isn't usually very high.

In hopes of changing that, WWF France commissioned photographer and videographer Emmanuel Rondeau to capture high-definition images of wild jaguars in their element. This quest, documented in the WWF's new web series "Mission Jaguar: Guiana," took Rondeau to Nouragues Natural Reserve in French Guiana, which protects 105,800 hectares (408 square miles) of tropical forest in northeastern South America. Below are some of of the images he caught during the expedition, courtesy of WWF France. According to the conservation group, they're the "first high-definition camera trap images of a jaguar in its natural habitat."

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Capturan imágenes de alta resolución de jaguares cerca del Amazonas

Capturan imágenes de alta resolución de jaguares cerca del Amazonas #DescifrandoLaNoticia #Jaguares #Amazonas

WASHINGTON.- EFE- Un fotógrafo del grupo World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Emmanuel Rondeau, ha capturado las primeras imágenes de alta resolución de jaguares en su hábitat natural tomadas con cámara trampa en la Reserva Natural de Nouragues, una selva tropical rodeada por el Escudo de las Guayanas cerca del Amazonas.

En la serie de fotografías que envió este jueves WWF a Efe se pueden observar varios…

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Calliste septicolore (Tangara chilensis) - Réserve naturelle nationale des Nouragues - Arrondissement de Cayenne - Département & région de Guyane (Amérique du Sud - France)

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The Ant Course in 2018

In addition to the Ants of the Southwest Class, the Ant Course is another great way to learn about ants.  It is being offered August 22 to September 1, 2018 in French Guiana at the Nouragues Field station. Seventeen lucky individuals will be chosen to attend.

Sponsored by California Academy of Sciences and Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA), the Ant Course is intended to help both professionals and interested amateurs learn about identification, behavior, and ecology of ants.

It isn't offered every year. The last time was in 2015. You can see previous faculty and students by visiting the Ant Course yearbook.

If you'd like to apply, there's a link to a Google form towards the top of the page. You will need to complete the application by April 1, 2018, and be prepared to give the name of a reference when you fill it out.

Hop on over to the Ant Course website for full details.

If you have gone in the past, we'd love to hear from you how it was.

from Nature's Incredible! http://ift.tt/2F0eYzr via Nature & Insects

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Course: FrenchGuiana.8thDNAmetabarcodingSchool.Oct4-11

Dear colleagues, The registration deadline for the eighth DNA metabarcoding Spring School in French Guiana has been extended to August the 3rd. Below the description of the school. For more information please consult the following web page: http://bit.ly/2mmTcOA All the best. For the organisation committee. DNA metabarcoding is a rapidly evolving method for assessing biodiversity from environmental DNA and bulk samples. It has a wide range of applications: biodiversity monitoring, animal diet assessment, reconstruction of paleo communities, among others. DNA metabarcoding uses molecular techniques such as PCR and next generation sequencing, and requires a broad range of skills, as it integrates molecular biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, and ecology. The DNA metabarcoding spring school is now in its eighth edition. This year, it is co-organized by the metabarcoding.org team and the Center for the Study of Biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA) at the Nouragues Scientific Station in French Guiana The DNA metabarcoding spring school will be held from October 4th to 11th, 2018 The school will be divided into lectures and practicals. All the lectures and the practicals will be taught in English The number of participants to this school is limited to 16. Candidates can apply for the school by sending an email to the following address : nouragues2018@metabarcoding.org The email must contain a brief curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation indicating how the applicant’s research will benefit from DNA metabarcoding and what (s)he is hoping to learn from this school. As part of the course, each participant will have to give a flash talk (5 minutes) about their research and how it is related to DNA metabarcoding. Main lecturers • Frédéric Boyer (LECA, CNRS, France) • Eric Coissac (LECA, UGA, France) • Eric Marcon (EcoFog, AgroParisTech, France) • Pierre Taberlet (LECA, CNRS, France) • Heidy Schimann (EcoFog, INRA, France) • Lucie Zinger (IBENS, ENS, France) Course Schedule The lectures will cover different aspects of DNA metabarcoding. The bioinformatics practicals will introduce data analysis from raw sequences to basic ecological conclusions. The molecular ecology practical will present basic techniques for DNA extraction in the field and DNA amplification by PCR. Venue The school will take place at the Nouragues Scientific Station, in the middle of the Amazonian forest in French Guiana. This location has accommodation for all participants in “carbet”. This is not a classical hotel with all the associated services. You will have to bring your hamac and mosquito net. For details on how to fill your luggages (clothes, shoes, insect repellants, etc.), carefully read the Nouragues web site (http://bit.ly/2gDe2nU). Attendees will be taken in charge at the Cayenne city center and will be transported to the field station by pirogues or helicopters. Therefore it will no be possible to arrive after the beginning of the school or to leave before the end. For leaving the field station at the end of the school, a four hours walk to reach the river will have to be done. Cost of the school: The return trip between Cayenne and the field station, the fees to stay at the field station including the meals and the lecture cost are taken in charge by the school organisation. Participants have to pay for their trip up to Cayenne and for their stay in Cayenne before and after the school. To get there: The appointment for the trip to the Nouragues field station is set on October the 4th early in the morning. Therefore attendees will have to be at Cayenne at least the day before. Participants will have to reach Cayenne on their own. Direct flight are available daily from Paris to the Cayenne-Félix Eboué Airport. The two major companies offering these flights are : Air Caraïbes and Air France. Other flights are also available from few cities. The following link resume the main international connections to Cayenne. For some countries, France requires a Schenguen entry visa, to be arranged before the travel. Yellow Fever vaccination and the corresponding International Vaccin certificat are Mandatory Lucie Zinger, PhD Associate Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) Ecole Normale Supérieure 46 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE Phone:+33 625 458 707 emails: lucie@zinger.fr; lucie.zinger@ens.fr Skype: lucie.zinger Lucie Zinger via Gmail

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Pleasing Fungus Beetle | ©Sean McCann

Coleoptera - Erotylidae. Nouragues, French Guiana.

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Réserve naturelle des Nouragues . 📸 @romain.decoin --- #WildWideWest #Lagwiyann #belpeyi #southamerica #frenchguiana https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7ZY-1n7lS/?igshid=6vzsozpc9hge

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Pleasing Fungus Beetle by smccann on Flickr.

IT IS PURPLE!!!1!

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La Forêt Primaire - Réserve naturelle nationale des Nouragues (1995) - Commune de Régina - Arrondissement de Cayenne - Guyane (France)

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The Ant Course in 2018

In addition to the Ants of the Southwest Class, the Ant Course is another great way to learn about ants. It isn't offered every year (the last one was in 2015), but this year you have a chance to go. Seventeen lucky individuals will attend August 22 to September 1, 2018 in French Guiana at the Nouragues Field station.

Sponsored by California Academy of Sciences and Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA), the Ant Course is intended to help both professionals and interested amateurs learn about identification, behavior, and ecology of ants.

You can see previous faculty and students in the Ant Course yearbook.

If you'd like to apply, there's a link to a Google form towards the top of the page. You need to complete the application by April 1, 2018. Be prepared to give the name of a reference on the application.

Hop on over to the Ant Course website for full details.

If you have gone in the past, we'd love to hear from you how it was.

from Nature's Incredible! http://ift.tt/2F0eYzr via Nature & Insects