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Quoy, Jean René Constant; Berry, S. Stillman; Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de; Gaimard, Paul; Roper, Clyde F. E.

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“…Both plates depict skulls plundered from indigenous graves in Waigeo, a large island off the western end of New Guinea. 58 The primary subject of the chapter 'On Man' is the skull, including the results of phrenological examination (see Kingston, this volume). Yet it lacks any craniometric comparison or any classification of the great range of human beings encountered during the voyage, many of whom were carefully measured and tested by Gaimard.…”

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Expedition into Empire

2014

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Derived from the Latin expeditio, 'a voyage of war,' the word 'expedition' had roughly parallel usages in French and English from the fifteenth century. In English by the early seventeenth century, it might mean 'a journey, voyage, or excursion made for some definite purpose.' In French by 1835 it could specifically denote a 'maritime expedition.' 1 This chapter treats an expedition in this sense as an extended theatre for the enactment of diverse amalgams of preconception, expectation, precedent, instruction, and emotion in the experiential context of encounters with particular places and their human, faunal, and floral inhabitants. My discussion addresses one strand of a particular subset of maritime expeditions-those to the 'fifth part of the world,' or 'Oceania,' during the classic era of scientific voyaging from 1766 to 1840. The strand is encounters with indigenous people as inscribed in the specialised literary mode of seaborne ethnography, defined as the empirical observations and representations of human populations seen or met by sailors, naturalists, and artists. 2 My examples draw on written and visual materials generated by two French voyages: the ill-starred Enlightenment expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1785-8), and the expedition led by Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (1817-20) at the dawn of the post-Napoleonic phase of scientific voyaging.The chapter hinges on two entwined themes. One is the asymmetric status of human encounters in principle and praxis. The official instructions issued to captains and naturalists focus heavily on the physical, nautical, and natural sciences, with ethnographic enquiry only a minor concern. Questions of human relations are mostly limited to pragmatic injunctions to avoid conflict or inhumane treatment of local inhabitants in order to facilitate the critical replenishment of wood, water, and food supplies. 3 However, in practice, encounters with indigenous people during stopovers ashore were axial in voyagers' experience and figured largely in their representations, whether unpublished or published. The resultant empirical cornucopia of seaborne ethnography underpins my second, overarching theme: the significance of 'the expedition' as a key setting for the early production of knowledge about the populations of Oceania. Often produced for its own sake (the scientific motive), such knowledge provided precedents for subsequent travellers,

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“…In this study, we aimed at testing the hypothesis of diet and niche breadth variation in the marbled parrotfish, Leptoscarus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, ), between coral reefs of different fishing intensity in coastal Kenya. The marbled parrotfish is a less mobile, commercially important coral reef fish and their site fidelity, as is the case for many coral reef fishes (Sale, ), is likely to expose them to high fishing mortality at fished sites.…”

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Diet and niche breadth variation in the marbled parrotfish,Leptoscarus vaigiensis, among coral reef sites in Kenya

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Studies on feeding ecology of fishes are important for understanding ecosystem structure and function. This study tested the hypothesis of diet and niche breath variation in the marbled parrotfish (Leptoscarus vaigiensis) among coral reefs of different protection levels in Kenya. Fish samples were obtained from protected (Malindi and Watamu marine parks), moderately fished (Malindi and Watamu marine reserves) and highly fished (Vipingo and Kanamai) reefs. Total lengths of fish samples were measured and their stomach contents quantified using the point method. Seasonal dietary composition, niche breaths and feeding intensities were compared between the sites using multivariate statistics. Results showed the parrotfish is a predominantly reef macroalgal grazer. Fish from protected sites fed on diverse dietary items compared to those from reserves and highly fished sites. Fish niche breadths differed between sites and seasons. Higher niche breadths occurred in protected sites during the north‐east monsoon, while higher values occurred at fished sites during the south‐east monsoon season. This study, the first of its kind in Kenya and most of the western Indian Ocean, describes feeding in the marbled parrotfish and spatial variation in niche breadth as influenced by fishing pressure, environmental variability and biological interactions.

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Magellanic Bryozoa: Some ecological and zoogeographical aspects

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1982

Mar. Biol.

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Expedition into Empire

Expedition into Empire

Diet and niche breadth variation in the marbled parrotfish,Leptoscarus vaigiensis, among coral reef sites in Kenya

Magellanic Bryozoa: Some ecological and zoogeographical aspects

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