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Lorenzi L, Mayer DG, Reginato BC, Pagliosa PR, Dantas DV, Gentil E, Toro Valencia VG. Relationships between benthic infauna and groundwater eutrophication on a sandy beach in southern Brazil. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:10841-10853. [PMID: 36087172 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22853-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Urban expansion in Brazilian coastal zones has caused various anthropic impacts on coastal marine ecosystems that have resulted from unorganized use and the lack of infrastructure projects. The inadequate disposal of domestic and industrial effluents in coastal waterbodies is notable, which can cause severe environmental problems. For sandy beaches, the relationships between the contamination of groundwater with domestic sewage and the possible effects on spatial and temporal variations in the density and composition of benthic infauna are still poorly understood. This work aimed to relate variations in benthic infaunal associations with the concentrations of groundwater nutrients in summer and winter on Enseada Beach. The greater concentrations of nutrients in water percolating through the sediment in the summer, increasing of domestic effluents, and periods of intense precipitation increased the contamination of the surface and groundwater. This contributes to an increase in the population density of Thoracophelia furcifera, demonstrating its use as an indicator of eutrophication of the groundwater, allowing monitoring and contribution to actions aimed at improving the environmental quality of sandy beaches.
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- Luciano Lorenzi
- Grupo de Estudos de organismos bentônicos de fundos inconsolidados vegetados e não vegetados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente, Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente PPGSMA - Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), Joinville, Brazil.
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- Grupo de Estudos de organismos bentônicos de fundos inconsolidados vegetados e não vegetados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente, Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Grupo de Gestão, Ecologia e Tecnologia Marinha (GTMar), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Territorial e Planejamento Socioambiental (PPGPLAN/UDESC), Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC, Laguna), Laguna, Santa Catarina, CEP: 88790-000, Brazil
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- Grupo de Estudos de organismos bentônicos de fundos inconsolidados vegetados e não vegetados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente, Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente PPGSMA - Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), Joinville, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biodiversidade Costeira - LABCOST, Coordenadoria Especial de Oceanografia - CFM, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, CEP: 88040-700, Brazil
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- Grupo de Estudos de organismos bentônicos de fundos inconsolidados vegetados e não vegetados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente, Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Grupo de Gestão, Ecologia e Tecnologia Marinha (GTMar), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Territorial e Planejamento Socioambiental (PPGPLAN/UDESC), Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC, Laguna), Laguna, Santa Catarina, CEP: 88790-000, Brazil
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- Grupo de Estudos de organismos bentônicos de fundos inconsolidados vegetados e não vegetados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde e Meio Ambiente, Universidade da Região de Joinville (UNIVILLE), São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Grupo de Gestão, Ecologia e Tecnologia Marinha (GTMar), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Territorial e Planejamento Socioambiental (PPGPLAN/UDESC), Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC, Laguna), Laguna, Santa Catarina, CEP: 88790-000, Brazil
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- Programa de Oceanografia, Mestrado em Ciências do Mar, Grupo de Pesquisa de Sistemas Marinhos e Costeiros (GISMAC). Corporação Acadêmica Ambiental, Universidad de Antioquia, Carrera 28 No. 107-49, Turbo, Colombia
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Gül MR. Combined influence of human disturbance and beach geomorphology on Ghost Crab, Ocypode cursor, burrow density and size in the eastern Mediterranean. ZOOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2022.2116170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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The fox and the beach: Coastal landscape topography and urbanisation predict the distribution of carnivores at the edge of the sea. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Grzelak K, Tamborski J, Kotwicki L, Bokuniewicz H. Ecostructuring of marine nematode communities by submarine groundwater discharge. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2018; 136:106-119. [PMID: 29456033 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Inputs of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) to the coastal ocean may alter local and regional-scale biology. Here, we report on nematode assemblages along the north shore of Long Island, NY. We test if nematode communities differed between sites impacted by mixed fresh-saline SGD and where SGD is exclusively saline. Diversity of nematodes was low at sites impacted by fresh SGD and communities were dominated by a few opportunistic genera. Moreover, a set of typical freshwater nematode genera restricted to impacted sites was observed. Their presence in the marine coastal zone is exceptional and underlines the structuring role that fresh SGD plays in the local ecosystem. Saline SGD structured nematode assemblages differently compared to sites impacted by fresh SGD. The number of nematode genera was markedly higher at saline SGD sites, with a different community structure. This study highlights the importance to which inputs of fresh SGD may have on local ecosystem diversity in marine coastal environments.
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- Katarzyna Grzelak
- Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 81-712 Sopot, Poland; Laboratory of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, 90-237 Łódź, Poland.
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- Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; LEGOS, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, 14 Ave Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 81-712 Sopot, Poland
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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van Egmond EM, van Bodegom PM, van Hal JR, van Logtestijn RSP, Berg MP, Aerts R. Nonadditive effects of consumption in an intertidal macroinvertebrate community are independent of food availability but driven by complementarity effects. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:3086-3097. [PMID: 29607008 PMCID: PMC5869218 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Suboptimal environmental conditions are ubiquitous in nature and commonly drive the outcome of biological interactions in community processes. Despite the importance of biological interactions for community processes, knowledge on how species interactions are affected by a limiting resource, for example, low food availability, remains limited. Here, we tested whether variation in food supply causes nonadditive consumption patterns, using the macroinvertebrate community of intertidal sandy beaches as a model system. We quantified isotopically labeled diatom consumption by three macroinvertebrate species (Bathyporeia pilosa, Haustorius arenarius, and Scolelepis squamata) kept in mesocosms in either monoculture or a three-species community at a range of diatom densities. Our results show that B. pilosa was the most successful competitor in terms of consumption at both high and low diatom density, while H. arenarius and especially S. squamata consumed less in a community than in their respective monocultures. Nonadditive effects on consumption in this macroinvertebrate community were present and larger than mere additive effects, and similar across diatom densities. The underlying species interactions, however, did change with diatom density. Complementarity effects related to niche-partitioning were the main driver of the net diversity effect on consumption, with a slightly increasing contribution of selection effects related to competition with decreasing diatom density. For the first time, we showed that nonadditive effects of consumption are independent of food availability in a macroinvertebrate community. This suggests that, in communities with functionally different, and thus complementary, species, nonadditive effects can arise even when food availability is low. Hence, at a range of environmental conditions, species interactions hold important potential to alter ecosystem functioning.
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- Emily M van Egmond
- Department of Ecological Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecological Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecological Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands.,Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Community and Conservation Ecology Group University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecological Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
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Maria TF, Vanaverbeke J, Vanreusel A, Esteves AM. Sandy beaches: state of the art of nematode ecology. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2016; 88:1635-1653. [PMID: 27737334 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201620150282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In this review, we summarize existing knowledge of the ecology of sandy-beach nematodes, in relation to spatial distribution, food webs, pollution and climate change. We attempt to discuss spatial scale patterns (macro-, meso- and microscale) according to their degree of importance in structuring sandy-beach nematode assemblages. This review will provide a substantial background on current knowledge of sandy-beach nematodes, and can be used as a starting point to delineate further investigations in this field. Over decades, sandy beaches have been the scene of studies focusing on community and population ecology, both related to morphodynamic models. The combination of physical factors (e.g. grain size, tidal exposure) and biological interactions (e.g. trophic relationships) is responsible for the spatial distribution of nematodes. In other words, the physical factors are more important in structuring nematodes communities over large scale of distribution while biological interactions are largely important in finer-scale distributions. It has been accepted that biological interactions are assumed to be of minor importance because physical factors overshadow the biological interactions in sandy beach sediments; however, the most recent results from in-situ and ex-situ experimental investigations on behavior and biological factors on a microscale have shown promise for understanding the mechanisms underlying larger-scale patterns and processes. Besides nematodes are very promising organisms used to understand the effects of pollution and climate changes although these subjects are less studied in sandy beaches than distribution patterns.
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- Tatiana F Maria
- Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UNIRIO, Departamento de Ecologia e Recursos Marinhos, Av. Pasteur, 458, 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Ghent University, Biology Department, Marine Biology, Krijgslaan 281- S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Biology Department, Marine Biology, Krijgslaan 281- S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Zoologia Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rêgo, s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901 Recife, PE, Brasil
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Schlacher TA, Schoeman DS, Jones AR, Dugan JE, Hubbard DM, Defeo O, Peterson CH, Weston MA, Maslo B, Olds AD, Scapini F, Nel R, Harris LR, Lucrezi S, Lastra M, Huijbers CM, Connolly RM. Metrics to assess ecological condition, change, and impacts in sandy beach ecosystems. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2014; 144:322-335. [PMID: 25014753 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2014] [Revised: 05/29/2014] [Accepted: 05/30/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Complexity is increasingly the hallmark in environmental management practices of sandy shorelines. This arises primarily from meeting growing public demands (e.g., real estate, recreation) whilst reconciling economic demands with expectations of coastal users who have modern conservation ethics. Ideally, shoreline management is underpinned by empirical data, but selecting ecologically-meaningful metrics to accurately measure the condition of systems, and the ecological effects of human activities, is a complex task. Here we construct a framework for metric selection, considering six categories of issues that authorities commonly address: erosion; habitat loss; recreation; fishing; pollution (litter and chemical contaminants); and wildlife conservation. Possible metrics were scored in terms of their ability to reflect environmental change, and against criteria that are widely used for judging the performance of ecological indicators (i.e., sensitivity, practicability, costs, and public appeal). From this analysis, four types of broadly applicable metrics that also performed very well against the indicator criteria emerged: 1.) traits of bird populations and assemblages (e.g., abundance, diversity, distributions, habitat use); 2.) breeding/reproductive performance sensu lato (especially relevant for birds and turtles nesting on beaches and in dunes, but equally applicable to invertebrates and plants); 3.) population parameters and distributions of vertebrates associated primarily with dunes and the supralittoral beach zone (traditionally focused on birds and turtles, but expandable to mammals); 4.) compound measurements of the abundance/cover/biomass of biota (plants, invertebrates, vertebrates) at both the population and assemblage level. Local constraints (i.e., the absence of birds in highly degraded urban settings or lack of dunes on bluff-backed beaches) and particular issues may require alternatives. Metrics - if selected and applied correctly - provide empirical evidence of environmental condition and change, but often do not reflect deeper environmental values per se. Yet, values remain poorly articulated for many beach systems; this calls for a comprehensive identification of environmental values and the development of targeted programs to conserve these values on sandy shorelines globally.
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- Thomas A Schlacher
- School of Science and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Q-4558 Maroochydore, Australia.
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- School of Science and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Q-4558 Maroochydore, Australia.
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- Division of Invertebrates, The Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
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- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150, USA.
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- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150, USA.
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- UNDECIMAR, Facultad de Ciencias, Igua 4225, PO Box 10773, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay.
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA.
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- School of Science and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Q-4558 Maroochydore, Australia.
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, via Romana 17, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
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- Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031, South Africa.
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- Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031, South Africa.
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- TREES-Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
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- Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Coast and Estuaries, and School of Environment, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, 4222, Australia.
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Coast and Estuaries, and School of Environment, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, 4222, Australia.
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Schoeman DS, Schlacher TA, Defeo O. Climate-change impacts on sandy-beach biota: crossing a line in the sand. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2014; 20:2383-92. [PMID: 25121188 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Sandy ocean beaches are iconic assets that provide irreplaceable ecosystem services to society. Despite their great socioeconomic importance, beaches as ecosystems are severely under-represented in the literature on climate-change ecology. Here, we redress this imbalance by examining whether beach biota have been observed to respond to recent climate change in ways that are consistent with expectations under climate change. We base our assessments on evidence coming from case studies on beach invertebrates in South America and on sea turtles globally. Surprisingly, we find that observational evidence for climate-change responses in beach biota is more convincing for invertebrates than for highly charismatic turtles. This asymmetry is paradoxical given the better theoretical understanding of the mechanisms by which turtles are likely to respond to changes in climate. Regardless of this disparity, knowledge of the unique attributes of beach systems can complement our detection of climate-change impacts on sandy-shore invertebrates to add rigor to studies of climate-change ecology for sandy beaches. To this end, we combine theory from beach ecology and climate-change ecology to put forward a suite of predictive hypotheses regarding climate impacts on beaches and to suggest ways that these can be tested. Addressing these hypotheses could significantly advance both beach and climate-change ecology, thereby progressing understanding of how future climate change will impact coastal ecosystems more generally.
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