# What evidence exists on the impacts of chemicals arising from human activity on tropical reef-building corals? A systematic map protocol

Dakis-Yaoba Ouedraogo, Romain Sordello, Sophie Brugneaux, Karen Burga, Christophe Calvayrac, Magalie Castelin, I. Domart-Coulon, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Mireille Guillaume, Laetitia Hédouin, et al.

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# What evidence exists on the impacts of chemicals arising from human activity on tropical reef-building corals? A systematic map protocol

Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo<fnref n="1" />*, Romain Sordello², Sophie Brugneaux³, Karen Burga⁴, Christophe Calvayrac⁵,⁶, Magalie Castelin⁷, Isabelle Domart-Coulon⁸, Christine Ferrier-Pagès⁹, Mireille M. M. Guillaume¹⁰,¹¹, Laetitia Hédouin¹¹,¹², Pascale Joannot¹³, Olivier Perceval¹⁴ and Yorick Reyjol²

**Abstract**

**Background:** Tropical coral reefs cover ca. 0.1% of the Earth's surface but host an outstanding biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services to millions of people living nearby. However, they are currently threatened by both local (e.g. nutrient enrichment and chemical pollution of coastal reefs, arising from poor land management, agriculture and industry) and global stressors (mainly seawater warming and acidification, i.e. climate change). Global and local stressors interact together in different ways, but the presence of one stressor often reduces the tolerance to additional stress. While global stressors cannot be halted by local actions, local stressors can be reduced through ecosystem management, therefore minimizing the impact of climate change on reefs. To inform decision-makers, we propose here to systematically map the evidence of impacts of chemicals arising from anthropogenic activities on tropical reef-building corals, which are the main engineer species of reef ecosystems. We aim to identify the combinations of chemical and coral responses that have attracted the most attention and for which evidence can be further summarized in a systematic review that will give practical information to decision-makers.

**Methods:** The systematic map will follow the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Management. We will search the relevant literature using English terms combined in a tested search string in two publication databases (Web Of Science Core Collection and Scopus). The search string will combine terms describing the population (tropical reef-building corals) and the exposure (chemicals). We will supplement this literature with some more obtained through search engines, specialist websites, and through a call to local stakeholders. Titles, abstracts, and full-texts will then be successively screened using pre-defined eligibility criteria. A list of pre-defined variables will then be extracted from full-texts. Finally, a database of all studies included in the map with coded metadata will be produced. The evidence will be described in a map report with text, figures and tables, and a matrix showing the distribution and frequency of included study into types of exposure and types of outcomes will be computed to identify potential knowledge gaps and knowledge clusters.

**Keywords:** Contamination, Hermatypic, Nutrients, Pollution, Scleractinian

**Background**

Tropical coral reefs cover ca. 0.1% of the Earth's surface but they host an outstanding biodiversity [1] and provide important ecosystem services to millions of people living

<footnote>*Correspondence: dakis.ouedraogo@gmail.com; dakis-yaoba.ouedraogo@mnhn.fr</footnote>

<footnote n="1">¹ Direction de l'Expertise, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 75005 Paris, France
Full list of author information is available at the end of the article</footnote>
nearby [2, 3]. Despite their biological and economical
importance, 75 percent of the world's tropical coral reefs
are currently threatened by both local and global stress-
ors [2, 4, 5]. The prominent global threats are represented
by seawater warming and acidification [6], while local
threats are mainly unsustainable and destructive devel-
opment of coastal areas, excess sedimentation, overfish-
ing, as well as nutrient and chemical pollution arising
from poor land management, agriculture and industry [7,
8]. Global and local stressors interact together in differ-
ent ways, but the presence of one stressor often reduces
the physiological tolerance of individuals to additional
stresses. For example, corals are hyper-sensitive to sea-
water warming if they are already physiologically stressed
by poor water quality [9]. While global stressors cannot
be halted by local actions, local stressors can be reduced
through ecosystem management, therefore largely mini-
mizing the climate change impacts on reefs [10].

The health of reef ecosystems is largely based on the
health of their main engineer species, the reef building
corals, which are not only responsible for reef accre-
tion, but also make three-dimensional structures serv-
ing as habitat and food for other reef organisms. The vast
majority of such corals (hermatypic corals, sensu [11])
are colonial scleractinian corals (Cnidaria Hexacorallia)
living in association with endosymbiotic dinoflagellate
algae belonging to the Symbiodiniaceae family [12]. Sym-
bionts are key to the success of corals in oligotrophic reef
waters as they transfer most of the photosynthetically-
acquired nutrients to the coral host for its own use [13,
14]. This association is however fragile. Many reviews
have now made clear the fact that elevation in seawater
temperature above a certain threshold is the main factor
responsible for the breakdown of the coral-algal sym-
biosis also called coral bleaching (see for example [15]).
As symbionts are the main nutritional source for corals,
prolonged bleaching condition may ultimately lead to
coral death, and reduced reef health. Coral symbiosis is
also largely impacted in coastal reefs by water pollution,
which is a major threat per se [16], but also reduces coral
resistance to thermal stress and acidification [17, 18].
According to the type of pollution, the host, the symbi-
onts or both partners can be impacted, through reduced
calcification or photosynthesis, enhanced bleaching or
cellular damage, and reduced fecundity among other
damages [19–21]. The effect of water pollution on cor-
als is a vast subject, due to the many possible pollutants,
and interactions among pollutants or with other envi-
ronmental stressors. While several reviews have focused
on the subject (e.g. [22, 23]), they often tackled only one
source of pollution or class of chemicals such as nutrients
[24], herbicides [25], oil [26] or sunscreen ingredients
[27]. Also, none of these reviews are systematic and have

assessed the major form of pollutants in reef waters, or
the major coral process(es) affected.

In this paper, we thus present a protocol to system-
atically map the evidence related to the impacts of
chemicals arising from human activities on tropical reef-
building corals. Such knowledge is essential for an effec-
tive ecosystem management and coral reef protection.

Topic identification and stakeholder input

In the French Overseas territories, coral reefs cover 14,280 km² corresponding to 5% of world total coral reef area [28]. France is hence the 4th country with the largest coral reef area in the world after Indonesia (18% of world total area), Australia (17%) and the Philippines (9%) [28], and therefore has substantial responsibility concerning coral reef protection. The French Ministry of Ecology has recently launched an assignment for a systematic review aiming to assess the impacts of chemicals and nutrients on coral reefs in order to gather and analyse the existing knowledge on this topic and find ways to improve coral reef protection and management at the national scale. The review team formulated the primary question of the review and its components, focusing on reef-building corals that are the main engineer species of reef ecosystems, and this was then approved by the French Ministry of Ecology. The French Ministry of Ecology, as well as the French Ministry for Overseas Territories are part of the steering committee of the project, and will therefore regularly follow the progress of the review. Because the topic is very large (all chemicals and all types of coral response should be considered) the first step of this assignment is to produce a systematic map of the evidence. We will thus be able to identify the combinations of chemicals and coral responses that have been the most documented and for which evidence can be further summarized in a systematic review.

Objective of the review

Primary question

The primary question of this systematic map is: What
evidence exists on the impacts of chemicals arising from
human activity on tropical reef-building corals?

Components of the primary question

The above primary question has the following key
elements:

Population: All tropical reef-building coral species (hermatypic scleractinian species, *Millepora* sp., *Heliopora* sp. and *Tubipora* sp.).

Exposure: All natural, geogenic and synthetic chem-
icals coming from human activities.
**Comparator:** Population not exposed to chemicals; Population prior to chemical exposure; Population exposed to a different concentration of chemicals.
**Outcomes:** All outcomes related to tropical reef-building corals, from molecular level (e.g. gene expression, enzyme activities) to community level (e.g. coral cover, species richness) (Fig. 1).

## Methods

The systematic map will follow the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Management [29] and it conforms to ROSES reporting standards [30] (see Additional file 1).

### Searching for articles

#### Search terms and languages

Searches will be performed using search terms exclusively in English language. The search with English search terms can however retrieve articles written in languages other than English, and articles written in English and French will be included (see section Eligibility criteria). The list of search terms is presented in the next section (see Search strings).

### Search string

A scoping exercise in Web of Science Core Collection (WOS CC, see the institutional subscriptions used in section “Bibliographic databases”) database was conducted to build the search string, using terms describing population and terms describing exposure (Additional file 2). To describe exposure, a detailed list of all the chemicals is impossible to establish because of their large number—for example the European Inventory of existing commercial chemical substances (ENIECS) includes more than 100,000 chemicals [31]. We therefore adopted the following approach to capture all the chemicals that could have an impact on corals. We listed the terms according to four levels of increasing specificity: (i) generic terms (e.g. contamination, pollution, chemicals); (ii) pressures (e.g. sewage, runoff) and usages (e.g. consumer product, biocide); (iii) classes of chemicals (e.g. nutrient, metal, pesticide, cosmetic, detergent, microplastic, petroleum); and (iv) within some classes of chemicals (e.g. metal), specific chemicals identified based on expert knowledge and whose impacts have been particularly studied in tropical corals (e.g. nickel, copper). Finally, the best combination of search terms obtained (i.e. that gave the highest comprehensiveness and specificity) is described below (Web Of Science format):

$$TS = (\text{coral\$ AND (contamin\* OR pollut\* OR toxicant\$ OR chemical\$ OR "industrial discharge\$" OR runoff OR}$$

<figure><img src="image_4.png" /><figcaption>**Fig. 1** Description of the outcomes of the primary question organized by biological levels. All outcomes related to tropical reef-building corals will be considered including but not restricted to those presented here</figcaption></figure>
run-off OR sewage OR eutrophication OR effluent$ OR
waste$water OR waste-water OR “shipping” OR biocide$
OR “industrial product$” OR “consumer product$” OR
“household product$” OR “biocidal product$” OR disin-
fect* OR nutrient$ OR oil OR metal$ OR pesticide$ OR
herbicide$ OR insecticide$ OR fungicide$ OR antifoul*
OR anti-foul* OR organochlorine$ OR “flame retard-
ant$” OR detergent$ OR “perfluorinated compound$”
OR pharmaceutical$ OR “personal care product$” OR
cosmetic$ OR PAH$ OR petroleum OR hydrocarbon$
OR microplastic$ OR nanoparticle$ OR nano-particle$
OR “endocrine disrupt”* OR “organic compound$” OR
dispersant$ OR metalloid$ OR solvent$ OR petrochemi-
cal$ OR additive$ OR preservative$ OR plasticizer$ OR
hormone$ OR “transformation product$” OR “degra-
dation product$” OR byproduct$ OR by-product$ OR
sunscreen$ OR “UV filter$” OR “ultraviolet filter$” OR
antibiotic$ OR phthalate$ OR PCB$ OR cyanide$ OR
chlordecone OR nickel OR copper OR zinc OR cadmium
OR mercury OR iron)).

Estimating the comprehensiveness of the search

To assess the comprehensiveness of the search string,
we used a test list of 58 articles considered by the review
team as relevant to answer our question and spanning a
wide range of chemicals (Additional file 3).

Bibliographic databases

Given the number of articles retrieved by our search
string during the scoping exercise and the resources
available to conduct the systematic map, we will per-
form searches on two online publication databases. We
selected two multidisciplinary databases Scopus (Else-
vier) and WOS CC (Clarivate Analytics) that we can
access through a CNRS (the French National Centre for
Scientific Research) subscription. Scopus is the largest
citation database of peer-reviewed literature and WOS
CC is the world's original citation index for scientific and
scholarly research. Both databases are well-suited for use
as principal search system to evidence synthesis [32].
Among the 58 articles of our test list, 97% (56/58) were
indexed in Scopus and 97% (56/58) in WOS CC (Addi-
tional file 3) indicating that both databases were highly
relevant for our literature search. We will adapt the
abovementioned search string to fit the search facilities
of the Scopus database (Additional file 4).

We had access to the following WOS CC Cita-
tion Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-
EXPANDED, 1900-present), Social Sciences Citation
Index (SSCI, 1956-present), Arts & Humanities Citation
Index (A&HCI, 1975-present), Conference Proceed-
ings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S, 1998-present),
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science

& Humanities (CPCI-SSH, 1998-present), Emerging
Sources Citation Index (ESCI, 2015-present); and
Chemical Indexes: Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-
EXPANDED, 1985-present, includes Institut National
de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840),
Index Chemicus (IC, 1993-present). We had access to all
Scopus database (1788-present). No time restriction will
be applied during searches.

Details on number of search hits returned by the search
string on the two databases are provided in additional
file 2.

Internet searches

Additional searches of literature will be performed using
three search engines:

• CORE (https://core.ac.uk/)

- Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.fr/)

• GreenFILE (http://www.greeninfoonline.com).

The search string developed during the scoping exer-
cise on WOS CC database will be adapted to fit the
search facilities of these search engines (for instance
Google Scholar allows limited Boolean operators and
search string is limited to 256 characters ([33], Additional
file 4). Searches will be performed on titles, then the
results will be sorted by relevance and the first 400 hits
will be extracted. Extraction of results from CORE will
be done one by one into Zotero using the Zotero con-
nector for web browser. Results from Google Scholar will
be extracted using the software Publish or Perish version
7.15.2643.7260 (https://harzing.com/resources/publish-
or-perish, accessed 16 March 2020). Results from Green-
File will be extracted using the offered export facilities
(results can be sent by email in various bibliographic for-
mats e.g. RIS format).

Additionally, we will also search for dissertations in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (https://search.proquest.com/, Publicly Available Content Database), Open Access Theses and Dissertations (https://oatd.org/) and the French thesis repository (https://www.theses.fr/). The search string will be adapted to fit the specificities of each repository. Searches will be performed on titles, then the results will be sorted by relevance and the first 100 hits will be extracted.

Specialist searches

We will search for links or references to relevant articles
and data on the following 11 specialist websites (English-
or French-written websites):

- Australian Institute of Marine Science (https://www.aims.gov.au/)

The search string developed during the scoping exer-
cise on WOS CC database will be adapted to fit the
search facilities of these search engines (for instance
Google Scholar allows limited Boolean operators and
search string is limited to 256 characters ([33], Additional
file 4). Searches will be performed on titles, then the
results will be sorted by relevance and the first 400 hits
will be extracted. Extraction of results from CORE will
be done one by one into Zotero using the Zotero con-
nector for web browser. Results from Google Scholar will
be extracted using the software Publish or Perish version
7.15.2643.7260 (https://harzing.com/resources/publish-
or-perish, accessed 16 March 2020). Results from Green-
File will be extracted using the offered export facilities
(results can be sent by email in various bibliographic for-
mats e.g. RIS format).

Additionally, we will also search for dissertations in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (https://search.proquest.com/, Publicly Available Content Database), Open Access Theses and Dissertations (https://oatd.org/) and the French thesis repository (https://www.theses.fr/). The search string will be adapted to fit the specificities of each repository. Searches will be performed on titles, then the results will be sorted by relevance and the first 100 hits will be extracted.
* Coral Health and Monitoring Program (NOAA, (https://www.coral.noaa.gov/))

* Coral traits database (https://coraltraits.org/)

* Ecotox knowledge base of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, https://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/)

* French Coral Reef Initiative (IFRECOR, https://ifrecor.fr)

* French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER, https://wwz.ifremer.fr/)

* International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI, https://www.icriforum.org/)

* International Coral Reef Society (ICRS, http://coralreefs.org/)

* LabEx CORAIL (https://www.labex-corail.fr/)

* ReefBase—A global information system for coral reefs (http://www.reefbase.org/)

* The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) List of Potential Endocrine Disruptors (https://endocrinedisruption.org/interactive-tools/tedx-list-of-potential-endocrine-disruptors).

## Call for literature

A call for literature will be addressed to the French overseas local authorities. In particular, the local French Coral Reef Initiative (IFRECOR) committees will be contacted.

## Assembling and managing search results

The results of all searches will be collated and duplicates will be removed using the package revtools in the R software [34]. The map will be managed with the R and Microsoft Excel softwares, and reference management softwares (EndNote and Zotero) will be specifically used for searching for full-texts.

## Article screening and study eligibility criteria

### Screening process

Articles will be screened for eligibility in two successive stages: first on titles and abstracts, and second on full-texts. Articles with unclear eligibility status during title/abstract screening will be included for full text screening. The list of articles with unclear eligibility status after completion of full-text screening will be provided with explanation of why they could not be classified. Articles without an abstract and retained based on title screening will directly be screened on their full-text.

Screening will be performed by at least two reviewers. Before screening, we will assess the consistency between reviewers' decisions by computing the Randolph's Kappa coefficient on a number of references randomly sampled among the set of articles. We will randomly sample 10% of articles for screening on titles and abstracts, and

5% for screening on full-texts. We will consider a minimal coefficient of 0.6 as an acceptable level of agreement between reviewers, and the process will be repeated until reaching this level. All disagreements between reviewers will be discussed whatever the value of the coefficient, and the definition of eligibility criteria will be improved where necessary.

During all screening process, we will ensure that reviewers will never have to screen their own articles.

## Eligibility criteria

At each stage, the eligibility of articles will be assessed using the criteria displayed in Table 1.

The list of articles rejected at full-text screening will be provided with their reasons for exclusion. Reviews and meta-analyses will be excluded but those eligible according to the Population-Exposure-Outcome criteria will be listed in a separate file to make them easily accessible for possible further use.

## Study validity assessment

No critical appraisal of study will be performed for the systematic map.

## Data coding strategy

A list of variables will be recorded in Microsoft Excel sheet from full-texts for all studies included in the map (full details are given in Additional file 5):

* Bibliographic information (unique identifier, source, title, authors, journal, year, DOI, language and publication type)

* General description of the study (publication content, country, latitude and longitude or location)

* Description of the population (taxon and taxon level)

* Description of the exposure (as described by the authors and as defined by the review team)

* Description of the type of outcome(s) (as described by the authors and as defined by the review team)

Data coding will be performed using an a priori specified CodeBook (Additional file 5) by at least two reviewers. Before the actual coding, a random selection of 1% of articles with a minimum of ten articles will be independently coded by the reviewers and potential disagreements will be discussed and solved, and the CodeBook will be improved where necessary. In case of missing or unclear information, it will be coded as such.

## Study mapping and presentation

We will produce a database (Microsoft Excel sheet) of all included studies and their coded data. This database will be open access and included as an appendix
<table><caption>**Table 1 Eligibility criteria**</caption><thead><tr><th>Include</th><th>Exclude</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Population</strong><br>All tropical reef-building coral species (hermatypic scleractinian species, Millepora sp., Heliopora sp. and Tubipora sp.) living in the shallow and the mesophotic zones</td><td>Cold-water or deep-water corals<br>Ahermatypic corals<br>Free-living zooxanthellae (not as symbionts in corals)<br>Studies conducted in coral reefs but not about corals (e.g. about coral reef fishes)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Exposure</strong><br>All natural, geogenic and synthetic chemicals coming from human activities. Studies assessing the impact of human activities (e.g. river discharge, distance to a dump or to an industrial effluent source, tourism) on corals without reference to a chemical</td><td>Studies assessing the impact of chemicals coming from natural sources (e.g. nutrients from guano)<br>Studies assessing the impact of sedimentation per se or of physical disturbances on coral<br>Marine debris, macro-plastics</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Comparator</strong><br>Studies comparing population exposed to chemicals and population unexposed to chemicals<br>Studies comparing population exposed to chemicals and population prior to exposure to chemicals<br>Studies comparing population exposed to a range of concentrations/ levels of chemicals</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Outcome</strong><br>All outcomes related to tropical reef-building corals, from molecular level (e.g. gene expression, enzyme activities) to community level (e.g. coral cover, bioerosion, species richness) (Fig. 1)<br>Studies reporting evidence of ingestion, concentration or accumulation/uptake of chemicals in the population studied without reporting health consequences<br>Studies assessing impacts on coral microbiome/symbionts</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Language</strong><br>All articles written in English or French (in case a title or an abstract could not be found in English or French, it will be directly screened on full-text)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Type of document</strong><br>Journal article, book chapter, report, conference proceeding, Ph.D. or M.Sc. thesis</td><td>Presentation, editorial material, letter or news item, conference or meeting abstract, poster</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Type of content</strong><br>In-situ or ex situ studies</td><td>Reviews and meta-analyses, modelling studies without experimental data</td></tr></tbody></table>

to the systematic map publication. In the map report, a narrative synthesis approach with descriptive statistics, tables and figures will be used to describe the geographical distribution of the included studies as well as their frequencies in the categories specified in the CodeBook. A matrix showing the distribution and frequency of included study into types of exposure and types of outcomes will be computed. The types of exposure and outcomes a priori defined in the CodeBook will be used, but we may also use de novo types that may emerge during the meta-coding process. The matrix will be plotted as a heat map to visually identify potential knowledge gaps and knowledge clusters. We will thus identify the clusters(s) for which a full synthesis of evidence (systematic review) should be possible.

**Supplementary information**

**Supplementary information** accompanies this paper at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-020-00203-x.

**Additional file 1.** ROSES systematic map protocols checklist. ROSES form for systematic map protocols version 1.0.

**Additional file 2.** Search string development. Details of the scoping exercise performed to build the search string.

**Additional file 3.** Test list. List of the 58 articles used to assess the comprehensiveness of the search string.

**Additional file 4.** Search strings. Search strings that will be used for searching in publication databases and search engines.

**Additional file 5.** Coding book. Description of the data that will be extracted for the systematic map.
## Acknowledgements

The authors thank Pierre Lecoq, Christophe Rousselle and Bernard Salvat for providing relevant articles to assess the comprehensiveness of our search string.

## Authors' contributions

The first scoping exercise to build the search string was performed by RS, OP, YR, SB and DYO. Then DYO refined it and all authors discussed and approved the final search string. DYO produced a first draft of the manuscript that was revised by RS and YR. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

## Funding

This map was funded by the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) and the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN).

## Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.

## Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

## Consent for publication

Not applicable.

## Competing interests

In 2018, CFP collaborated with the private company "L'Oréal" for a research work on the impact of sunscreen ingredients on a coral species. LH is currently conducting research on the effects of cosmetic ingredients on young stages of corals of French Polynesia for the private company "Comptoir du Monoi".

## Author details

¹ Direction de l'Expertise, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 75005 Paris, France. ² UMS PatriNat, OFB - MNHN - CNRS, 75005 Paris, France.

³ Direction des Outres mers, Office Français Pour la Biodiversité (OFB), 29200 Brest, France. ⁴ French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), 94701 Maisons-Alfort Cedex, France. ⁵ Biocapteurs Analyses Environnement, University of Perpignan via Domitia, 66000 Perpignan, France. ⁶ Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), Sorbonne Universités - CNRS, 66650 Banyuls Sur Mer, France. ⁷ Institut de Systématique Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - CNRS - Sorbonne Université - EPHE - Université des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France. ⁸ Laboratoire Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Microorganismes (MCAM), UMR 7245, CNRS - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 75005 Paris, France. ⁹ Equipe Ecophysiologie Corallienne, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 98000 Monaco, Monaco. ¹⁰ Laboratoire de Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (BOrEA), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - CNRS - SU - IRD - UCN - UA EcoFunc - Aviv, 75005 Paris, France. ¹¹ Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL, 66860 Perpignan, France. ¹² USR 3278 CRIOLE, PSL Université Paris : EPHE - UPVD - CNRS, 98729 Papetoai, Mo'orea, French Polynesia. ¹³ Direction du Pôle Expéditions - DGD C, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 75005 Paris, France. ¹⁴ Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB), 94300 Vincennes, France.

Received: 3 April 2020 Accepted: 26 August 2020

Published online: 03 September 2020

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