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Effects of wave exposure on the abundance and composition of amphipod and tanaidacean assemblages inhabiting intertidal coralline algae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2015

M. Bueno ,
S.A. Dena-Silva ,
A.A.V. Flores  and
F.P.P. Leite
M. Bueno*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia CP 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Rodovia Manoel Hipólito do Rego, Km 131,5, 11600-000, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
S.A. Dena-Silva
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia CP 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
A.A.V. Flores
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Rodovia Manoel Hipólito do Rego, Km 131,5, 11600-000, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil
F.P.P. Leite
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia CP 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:M. Bueno, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia CP 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil email: mariliabueno@live.com
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Abstract

Peracarid crustaceans are an important component of the vagile fauna associated with coralline algal beds, which often characterize the infralittoral fringe of tropical rocky shores. Among other variables affecting faunal assemblages, sedimentation, food supply and oxygen concentration within mats or turfs of coralline algae may greatly depend on the exposure to waves. In this study, peracarid assemblages were compared at replicated rocky shores within different levels of wave exposure, along a coastline in south-eastern Brazil. Overall amphipod diversity (11 species) was much higher than tanaidacean diversity (two species). Correlation analyses did not support any biological interactions between amphipods and tanaidaceans. Habitat complexity, while apparently limiting amphipod populations, did not affect tanaidaceans at a local scale. Amphipod abundance, not assemblage structure, was positively affected by wave exposure, probably improving oxygen concentration levels and renewal of food resources. Rather than abundance, which remains fairly stable, exposure to waves determined species identity in tanaidaceans, with Zeuxo coralensis found at exposed shores and Leptochelia aff. dubia found at sheltered shores, except for two L. aff. dubia individuals found at one of the exposed sites. Differences in the supply of sediment and the ability of these species in manipulating grains for tube building may explain such a striking pattern.

Keywords

Species compositionperacaridshydrodynamismarticulated coralline algaerocky shores
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , May 2016 , pp. 761 - 767
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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