Ecological shifts in mediterranean coralligenous assemblages related to gorgonian forest loss

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ponti, Massimo ^a   Perlini, Rossella Angela ^a   Ventra, Vincenzo ^a   Grech, Daniele ^b   Abbiati, Marco ^a,c   Cerrano, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BROWN ALGA; BRYOZOA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORALLINE ALGA; EUNICELLA CAVOLINII; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; GORGONIAN FOREST; GREEN ALGA; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT INTENSITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RED ALGA; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHAEOPHYTA; RHODOPHYTA; SEAWATER;

EID: 84904650411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102782     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Ballesteros E (2006) Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages: a synthesis of present knowledge. Oceanogr Mar Biol, Annu Rev 44: 123-195.
2. Bertolino M, Cerrano C, Bavestrello G, Carella M, Pansini M, et al. (2013) Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species. ZooKeys 336: 1-37.
3. Riedl R (1966) Biologie der Meereshöhlen. Hamburg: Paul Parey. 636 p.
4. Scinto A, Bertolino M, Calcinai B, Huete-Stauffer C, Previati M, et al. (2009) Role of a Paramuricea clavata forest in modifying the coralligenous assemblages. In: Pergent-Martini C, Brichet M, editors; 15-16 January 2009; Tabarka, Tunisa. UNEP-MAP-RAC/SPA. 136-140.
5. Cerrano C, Danovaro R, Gambi C, Pusceddu A, Riva A, et al. (2010) Gold coral (Savalia savaglia) and gorgonian forests enhance benthic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the mesophotic zone. Biodivers Conserv 19: 153-167.
6. Linares C, Coma R, Garrabou J, Díaz D, Zabala M (2008) Size distribution, density and disturbance in two Mediterranean gorgonians: Paramuricea clavata and Eunicella singularis. J Appl Ecol 45: 688-699. (Pubitemid 351406234)
7. Cerrano C, Cardini U, Bianchelli S, Corinaldesi C, Pusceddu A, et al. (2013) Red coral extinction risk enhanced by ocean acidification. Sci Rep 3.
8. Teixido N, Casas E, Cebrian E, Linares C, Garrabou J (2013) Impacts on coralligenous outcrop biodiversity of a dramatic coastal storm. PLoS ONE 8.
9. Bavestrello G, Cerrano C, Zanzi D, Cattaneovietti R (1997) Damage by fishing activities in the gorgonian coral Paramuricea clavata in the Ligurian Sea. Aquat Conserv 7: 253-262. (Pubitemid 27503064)
10. Coma R, Pola E, Ribes M, Zabala M (2004) Long-term assessment of temperate octocoral mortality patterns, protected vs. unprotected areas. Ecol Appl 14: 1466-1478. (Pubitemid 39385162)
11. Vezzulli L, Previati M, Pruzzo C, Marchese A, Bourne DG, et al. (2010) Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea. Environ Microbiol 12: 2007-2019.
12. Vezzulli L, Pezzati E, Huete-Stauffer C, Pruzzo C, Cerrano C (2013) 16SrDNA pyrosequencing of the Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea clavata reveals a link among alterations in bacterial holobiont members, anthropogenic influence and disease outbreaks. PLoS ONE 8: e67745.
13. Cerrano C, Bavestrello G, Bianchi CN, Cattaneo-Vietti R, Bava S, et al. (2000) A catastrophic mass-mortality episode of gorgonians and other organisms in the Ligurian Sea (Northwestern Mediterranean), summer 1999. Ecol Lett 3: 284-293. (Pubitemid 30597795)
14. Martin Y, Bonnefort JL, Chancerelle L (2002) Gorgonians mass mortality during the 1999 late summer in french Mediterranean coastal waters: the bacterial hypothesis. Water Res 36: 779-782.
15. Garrabou J, Coma R, Bensoussan N, Bally M, Chevaldonne P, et al. (2009) Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave. Glob Change Biol 15: 1090-1103.
16. Huete-Stauffer C, Vielmini I, Palma M, Navone A, Panzalis P, et al. (2011) Paramuricea clavata (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) loss in the Marine Protected Area of Tavolara (Sardinia, Italy) due to a mass mortality event. Mar Ecol Evol Persp 32: 107-116.
17. Cerrano C, Arillo A, Azzini F, Calcinai B, Castellano L, et al. (2005) Gorgonian population recovery after a mass mortality event. Aquat Conserv 15: 147-157. (Pubitemid 40440970)
18. Linares C, Coma R, Diaz D, Zabala M, Hereu B, et al. (2005) Immediate and delayed effects of a mass mortality event on gorgonian population dynamics and benthic community structure in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 305: 127-137. (Pubitemid 43182299)
19. Coma R, Linares C, Ribes M, Diaz D, Garrabou J, et al. (2006) Consequences of a mass mortality in populations of Eunicella singularis (Cnidaria:Octocorallia) in Menorca (NW Mediterranean). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 327: 51-60. (Pubitemid 46142172)
20. Bourget E, Deguise J, Daigle G (1994) Scales of substratum heterogeity, structural complexity, and the early establishment of a marine epibenthic community. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 181: 31-51.
21. Ben-Yosef DZ, Benayahu Y (1999) The gorgonian coral Acabaria biserialis: life history of a successful colonizer of artificial substrata. Mar Biol 135: 473-481.
22. Lapointe L, Bourget E (1999) Influence of substratum heterogeneity scales and complexity on a temperate epibenthic marine community. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 189: 159-170.
23. Pech D, Ardisson PL, Bourget E (2002) Settlement of a tropical marine epibenthic assemblage on artificial panels: influence of substratum heterogeneity and complexity scales. Estuar Coast Shelf S 55: 743-750. (Pubitemid 35404794)
24. Weinbauer MG, Velimirov B (1996) Relative habitat suitability and stability of the Mediterranean gorgonian coral Eunicella cavolini (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Bull Mar Sci 58: 786-791.
25. Bianchi CN, Pronzato R, Cattaneo-Vietti R, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Morri C, et al. (2004) Hard bottoms. In: Gambi MC, Dappiano M, editors. Mediterranean marine benthos: a manual of methods for its sampling and study. Genova: Società Italiana di Biologia Marina. 185-216.
26. Magurran AE (2004) Measuring biological diversity: Blakwell Science Ltd. 256 p.
27. Gower JC (1966) Some distance properties of latent root and vector methods used in multivariate analysis. Biometrika 53: 325-338.
28. McArdle BH, Anderson MJ (2001) Fitting multivariate models to community data: a comment on distance-based redundancy analysis. Ecology 82: 290-297. (Pubitemid 32106404)
29. Anderson MJ, ter Braak CJF (2003) Permutation tests for multi-factorial analysis of variance. J Stat Comput Sim 73: 85-113. (Pubitemid 36208716)
30. Anderson MJ, Gorley RN, Clarke KR (2008) PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: guide to software and statistical methods. Plymouth, UK: PRIMER-E Ltd. 214 p.
31. Coma R, Ribes M, Zabala M, Gili JM (1998) Growth in a modular colonial marine invertebrate. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 47: 459-470. (Pubitemid 28494897)
32. Gili JM, Coma R (1998) Benthic suspension feeders: their paramount role in littoral marine food webs. Trends Ecol Evol 13: 316-321.
33. Coma R, Gili JM, Zabala M, Riera T (1994) Feeding and prey capture cycles in the aposymbiontic gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 115: 257-270.
34. Ribes M, Coma R, Gili JM (1999) Heterogeneous feeding in benthic suspension feeders: the natural diet and grazing rate of the temperate gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) over a year cycle. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 183: 125-137. (Pubitemid 29355170)
35. Rodriguez AD (1995) The natural products chemistry of West Indian gorgonian octocorals. Tetrahedron 51: 4571-4618.
36. Jones CG, Lawton JH, Shachak M (1994) Organisms as ecosystem engineers. Oikos 69: 373-386.
37. Cerrano C, Bavestrello G (2008) Medium-term effects of die-off of rocky benthos in the Ligurian Sea. What can we learn from gorgonians? Chem Ecol 24: 73-82. (Pubitemid 351993079)
38. Piazzi L, Balata D, Pertusati M, Cinelli F (2004) Spatial and temporal variability of Mediterranean macroalgal coralligenous assemblages in relation to habitat and substratum inclination. Bot Mar 47: 105-115. (Pubitemid 38630151)
39. Virgilio M, Airoldi L, Abbiati M (2006) Spatial and temporal variations of assemblages in a Mediterranean coralligenous reef and relationships with surface orientation. Coral Reefs 25: 265-272.
40. Ponti M, Fava F, Abbiati M (2011) Spatial-temporal variability of epibenthic assemblages on subtidal biogenic reefs in the northern Adriatic Sea. Mar Biol 158: 1447-1459.
41. Teixido N, Garrabou J, Harmelin J-G (2011) Low dynamics, high longevity and persistence of sessile structural species dwelling on Mediterranean coralligenous outcrops. PLoS ONE 6: e23744.
42. Piazzi L, Balata D, Cinelli F (2007) Invasions of alien macroalgae in Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages. Cryptogam Algol 28: 289-301. (Pubitemid 47338985)
43. Piazzi L, Balata D (2009) Invasion of alien macroalgae in different Mediterranean habitats. Biol Inva 11: 193-204.
44. Zapata-Ramírez PA, Scaradozzi D, Sorbi L, Palma M, Pantaleo U, et al. (2013) Innovative study methods for the Mediterranean coralligenous habitats. Adv Oceanogr Limnol 4: 102-119.