Succession of marine fouling community influences the associated mobile fauna via physical complexity increment
Vanessa S. Vicente A , Ana P. Ferreira A , Pedro A. Peres B , Silvana G. L. Siqueira A , Fosca P. P. Leite A and Edson A. Vieira
A C D
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A Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 255 Monteiro Lobato, Campinas, São Paulo, 13.083-862, Brazil.
B Laboratório de Bioecologia e Sistemática de Crustáceos (LBSC), Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Comparada, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 3900 Bandeirantes, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14040-901, Brazil.
C Present address: Laboratório de Ecologia Marinha, Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Av. Via Costeira Senador Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, 59.014-002, Brazil.
D Corresponding author. Email: edsonvfmar@gmail.com
Marine and Freshwater Research - https://doi.org/10.1071/MF21025
Submitted: 22 January 2021 Accepted: 4 May 2021 Published online: 2 June 2021
Abstract
Sessile communities provide habitat for feeding, reproduction and protection to a diverse mobile fauna. Along succession, the growth and overgrowth of three-dimensional sessile organisms generate structural complexity and microhabitats for mobile organisms. Most studies focus on one species or group of the sessile fauna as a habitat provider, but here we investigated the whole community, using fouling communities as a model. We tested the hypothesis that they would gain structural complexity along succession, resulting in an increase in abundance and biomass, and compositional changes of the associated mobile groups. The organisms were obtained from communities growing on PVC plates left in the water for 6, 9 and 12 months. Early succession fouling communities (6 months) were mostly flatter, dominated by encrusting bryozoans and more empty space and cover of delicate hydrozoans and filamentous algae. Advanced-succession fouling communities (9 and 12 months) showed a biomass increment and compositional changes by the increased cover of structurally complex sessile organisms, such as arborescent bryozoans and sponges. Mobile groups showed higher abundance and biomass, and a different composition at later stages. Thus, our results emphasise how the structural complexity provided by fouling organisms and the changes over succession may mediate the changes in the associated mobile fauna.
Keywords: sessile community, experimental substrates, three-dimensional structure, macrozoobenthos, bryozoans, amphipods.
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