Interactions between Zostera capensis, Callianassa kraussi and Upogebia africana: Deductions from field surveys in Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa

African Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 345-356

  Siebert, T ^a   Branch, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Callianassa; Eelgrass; Estuaries; Lagoons; Mudprawn; Sandprawn; Upogebia; Zostera

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BURROWING ORGANISM; COASTAL LAGOON; CRUSTACEAN; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEAGRASS;

AFRICA; LANGEBAAN LAGOON; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

CALLIANASSA; CALLIANASSA KRAUSSI; CALLIANASSIDAE; UPOGEBIA; UPOGEBIA AFRICANA; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA CAPENSIS;

EID: 28444492691     PISSN: 1814232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/18142320509504094     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. ALLER, R. C. and R. E. DODGE 1974 - Animal-sediment relations in a tropical lagoon - Discovery Bay, Jamaica. J. mar. Res. 32(2): 209-232.
2. ALLER, R. C., YINGST, J. Y. and W. J. ULLMAN 1983 - Comparative biogeochemistry of water in intertidal Onuphis (Polychaeta) and Upogebia (Crustacea) burrows: temporal patterns and causes. J. mar. Res. 41: 571-604.
3. ALONGI, D. M. 1985 - Effect of physical disturbance on population dynamics and tropic interactions among microbes and meiofauna. J. mar. Res. 43: 351-364.
4. BELL, S. S. and S. A. WOODIN 1984 - Community unity: experimental evidence for meiofauna and macrofauna. J. mar. Res. 42: 605-632.
5. BERKENBUSCH, K., ROWDEN, A. A. and P. K. PROBERT 2000 - Temporal and spatial variation in macrofauna community composition imposed by ghost shrimp Callianassa filholi bioturbation. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 192: 249-257.
6. BRANCH, G. M. and A. PRINGLE 1987 - The impact of the sand prawn Callianassa kraussi Stebbing on sediment turnover and on bacteria, meiofauna, and benthic microflora. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 107(3): 219-235.
7. BRENCHLEY, G. A. 1981 - Disturbance and community structure: an experimental study of bioturbation in marine soft-bottom environments. J. mar. Res. 39(4): 767-790.
8. BRENCHLEY, G. A. 1982 - Mechanisms of spatial competition in marine soft-bottom communities. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 60(1): 17-33.
9. CHRISTIE, N. D. 1981 - Primary production in the Langebaan Lagoon. In Estuarine Ecology with Particular Reference to Southern Africa. Day, J. H. (Ed.). Cape Town; Balkema: 101-115.
10. CHRISTIE, N. D. and A. [G. S.] MOLDAN 1977 - Distribution of benthic macrofauna in Langebaan Lagoon. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 42(3&4): 273-284.
11. COELHO, V. R., COOPER, R. A. and S. RODRIGUES 2000 - Burrow morphology and behaviour of the mud shrimp Upogebia omissa (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 200: 229-240.
12. DAY, J. H. 1959 - The biology of Langebaan Lagoon: a study of the effect of shelter from wave action. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 35(5): 475-547.
13. DAY, J. H. 1981 - The estuarine fauna. In Estuarine Ecology with Particular Reference to Southern Africa. Day, J. H. (Ed.). Cape Town; Balkema: 147-178.
14. DEWITT, T. and J. S. LEVINTON 1985 - Disturbance, emigration, and refugia: how the mud snail, llyanassa obsoleta (Say), affects the habitat distribution of an epifaunal amphipod, Microdeutopus gryllotalpa (Costa). J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 92: 97-113.
15. EDGAR, G. J., SHAW, C., WATSON, G. F. and L. S. HAMMOND 1994 - Comparisons of species richness, size-structure and production of benthos in vegetated and unvegetated habitats in Western Port, Victoria. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 176: 201-226.
16. EDGCUMBE, D. J. 1980 - Some preliminary observations on the submerged aquatic Zostera capensis Setchell. J. S. Afr. Bot. 46(1): 53-66.
17. FLEMMING, B. W. 1977a - Distribution of recent sediments in Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 42: 317-340.
18. FLEMMING, B. W. 1977b - Langebaan Lagoon: a mixed carbonate-siliclastic tidal environment in a semi-arid climate. Sed. Geol. 18: 61-95.
19. FLINT, R. W. and R. D. KALKE 1986 - Biological enhancement of estuarine benthic community structure. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 31: 23-33.
20. FORBES, A. T. 1973 - An unusual abbreviated larval life in the estuarine burrowing prawn Callianassa krausii (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Mar. Biol. 22: 361-365.
21. HANEKOM, N. and D. BAIRD 1988 - Distribution and variations in seasonal biomass of eelgrass Zostera capensis in the Kromme Estuary, St Francis Bay, South Africa. S. Afr. J. mar. Sci. 7: 51-59.
22. HECK, K. L. and G. S. WETSTONE 1977 - Habitat complexity and invertebrate species richness and abundance in tropical seagrass meadows. J. Biogeog. 4: 135-142.
23. HILL, B. J. 1971 - Osmoregulation by an estuarine and a marine species of Upogebia (Anomura, Crustacea). Zoologica Afr. 6(2): 229-236.
24. JUMARS, P. A. and A. R. M. NOWELL 1984 - Effects of benthos on sediment transport: difficulties with functional grouping. Continent. Shelf Res. 3: 115-130.
25. KOIKE, I. and H. MUKAI 1983 - Organic and inorganic nitrogen contents and fluxes in burrows of the shrimps Callianassa japonica and Upogebia major. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 12: 185-190.
26. KRISTENSEN, E., JENSEN, M. H. and T. K. ANDERSON 1985 - The impact of polychaete (Nereis virens Sars) burrows on nitrification and nitrate reduction in estuarine sediments. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 85: 75-91.
27. LEE, S. Y., FONG, C. W. and R. S. S. WU 2001 - The effects of seagrass (Zostera japonica) canopy structure on associated fauna: a study using artificial seagrass units and sampling natural beds. J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 259: 23-50.
28. MacGINITIE, G. M. 1930 - The natural history of mud shrimp: Upogebia pugettensis (Dana). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 (6): 36-47.
29. MAZURE, H. G. F. and G. M. BRANCH 1979 - A preliminary analysis of bacterial numbers and biomass in Langebaan Lagoon. Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 44(1): 43-54.
30. NICKELL, L. A. and R. J. A. ATKINSON 1995 - Functional morphology of burrows and trophic modes of three thalassinidean shrimp species, and a new approach to the classification of thalassinidean burrow morphology. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 128: 181-197.
31. PETERSON, C. H. 1977 - Competitive organization of the soft-bottom macrobenthic communities of southern Californian lagoons. Mar. Biol. 43: 343-359.
32. POSEY, M. H. 1986 - Changes in a benthic community associated with dense beds of a burrowing deposit feeder, Callianassa californiensis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 31(1): 15-22.
33. PROBERT, P. K. 1984 - Disturbance, sediment stability and trophic structure of soft-bottom communities. J. mar. Res. 42: 893-921.
34. RHOADS, D. C. 1974 - Organism-sediment relations on the muddy sea floor. Oceanogr. mar. Biol. a. Rev. 12: 263-300.
35. RHOADS, D. C. and D. K. YOUNG 1970 - The influence of deposit-feeding organisms on sediment stability and community trophic structure. J. mar. Res. 28(2): 150-178.
36. RODRIGUES, S. A. and W. HODL 1990 - Burrowing behaviour of Callichirus major and Callichirus mirim. Wiss. Film. 41: 48-58.
37. ROWDEN, A. A. and M. B. JONES 1993 - Critical evaluation of sediment turnover estimates for Callianassidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea). J. expl mar. Biol. Ecol. 173: 265-272.
38. SCHAEFER, N. 1970 - The functional morphology of the foregut of three species of Decapod Crustacea: Cyclograpsus punctatus Milne Edwards, Diogenes brevirostris Stimpson and Upogebia africana Ortmann. Zool. Afr. 5 (2): 309-326.
39. SCOTT, P. J. B., REISWIG, H. M. and B. M. MARCOTTE 1988 - Ecology, functional morphology, behaviour and feeding in coral- and sponge-boring species of Upogebia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Can. J. Zool. 66: 483-495.
40. STAMHUIS, E. J., SCHREURS, C. E. and J. J. VIDELER 1998 - Burrow architecture and turbative activity of the thalassinid shrimp Callianassa subterranean from central North Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 154: 155-163.
41. SUCHANEK, T. H. 1983 - Control of seagrass communities and sediment distribution by Callianassa (Crustacea, Thalassinidae) bioturbation. J. mar. Res. 41(2): 281-298.
42. SUCHANEK, T. H. and P. L. COLIN 1986 - Rates and effects of bioturbation by invertebrates and fishes at Enewetak and Bikini atolls. Bull. mar. Sci. 38(1): 25-34.
43. SUCHANEK, T. H., COLIN, P. L., McMURTRY, G. M. and C. S. SUCHANEK 1986 - Bioturbation and redistribution of sediment radionuclides in Enewetak Atoll lagoon by callianassid shrimp: biological aspects. Bull. mar. Sci. 38(1): 144-154.
44. TALBOT, M. M. B. and G. C. BATE 1987 - The distribution and biomass of the seagrass Zostera capensis in a warm-temperate estuary. Botanica mar. 30: 91-99.
45. THISTLE, D. 1981 - Natural physical disturbances and communities of marine soft bottoms. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 6: 223-228.
46. TOWNSEND, E. C. and M. S. FONSECA 1998 - Bioturbation as a potential mechanism influencing spatial heterogeneity of North Carolina seagrass beds. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 169: 123-132.
47. VIRNSTEIN, R. W. 1977 - The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay. Ecology. 58: 1199-1217.
48. WEBB, P. A. and B. D. EYRE 2004 - Effect of natural populations of burrowing thalassinidean shrimp on sediment irrigation, benthic metabolism, nutrient flux and denitrification. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 268: 205-220.
49. WOODIN, S. A. 1981 - Disturbance and community structure in a shallow water sand flat. Ecology 62: 1052-1066.
50. WYNBERG, R. P. and G. M. BRANCH 1991 - An assessment of bait-collecting for Callianassa kraussi Stebbing in Langebaan Lagoon, Western Cape, and of associated avian predation. S. Afr. J. mar. Sci. 11: 141-152.
51. WYNBERG, R. P. and G. M. BRANCH 1994 - Disturbance associated with bait-collection for sandprawns (Callianassa kraussi) and mudprawns (Upogebia africana): long-term effects on the biota of intertidal sandflats. J. mar. Res. 52: 523-558.
52. WYNBERG. R. P. and G. M. BRANCH 1997 - Trampling associated with bait-collecting for prawns Callianassa kraussi Stebbing: effects in the biota of an intertidal sandflat. Environ. Conserv. 24: 139-148.
53. ZAR, J. H. 1984 - Biostatistical Analysis, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Prentice-Hall: xiv + 718 pp.