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J Exp Mar Biol Ecol


Title:The effects of sea urchin grazing and drift algal blooms on a subtropical seagrass bed community
Author(s):Macia S;
Address:"Center for Marine and Environmental Analyses, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL, USA"
Journal Title:J Exp Mar Biol Ecol
Year:2000
Volume:246
Issue:1
Page Number:53 - 67
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0981(99)00172-0
ISSN/ISBN:0022-0981 (Print) 0022-0981 (Linking)
Abstract:"Subtropical seagrass beds can be subject to relatively high levels of direct herbivory and large blooms of drift algae, both of which can have important effects on the floral and faunal components of the community. Caging experiments were used to investigate these factors in a Thalassia testudinum bed in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Abundance of sea urchins, Lytechinus variegatus, and drift algae was manipulated within the cages. Naturally occurring levels of urchin grazing do not appear to affect the T. testudinum population. With experimentally increased urchin densities in the winter, seagrass shoot density and aboveground biomass decreased significantly. Similar effects were not detected in the summer, indicating that the impact of grazing on T. testudinum is lessened during this time of year. Shoot density was more vulnerable to grazing than aboveground biomass. This may be a result of grazing-induced increases in seagrass productivity, in which the remaining shoots produce more or longer leaves. In the winter, drift algal blooms form large mats that cover the seagrass canopy. Under the normal grazing regime these algal blooms do not have significant negative effects on the seagrass. With increased grazing pressure, however, there is a synergistic effect of grazing and drift algae on seagrass shoot density. At intermediate urchin density (10 per m(-2)), cages without algae did not undergo significant decreases in shoot density, while those with algae did. At the high density of urchins, the number of seagrass shoots in cages both with and without algae decreased, but the effect was more pronounced for cages with algae. Invertebrate abundance at the field site was low relative to other seagrass beds. There were no discernible effects, either positive or negative, of urchin and algae manipulations on the sampled invertebrate community"
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Notes:"PubMed-not-MEDLINEMacia, S eng Netherlands 2000/03/04 J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 2000 Mar 30; 246(1):53-67. doi: 10.1016/s0022-0981(99)00172-0"

 
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