Feeding, growth and respiration in the polychaetes Nereis diversicolor (facultative filter-feeder) and N. virens (omnivorous)-a comparative study

Nielsen, AM; Eriksen, NT; Iversen, Jjl; Hu, Ruizhong

doi:10.3354/meps125149

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“…Thus, SDA constituted a very substantial proportion of the total energy released by respiration in growing sponges. The present value of SDA in H. panicea may be compared to those reported for other marine invertebrates: 20 to 26% of the growth in Nereis diversicolor and N. virens (Nielsen et al 1995), 20% in the blue mussel Mytilus edulis (Jergensen 1990), 19% in the copepod Acartia tonsa (Ki~rboe et al 1985) and 40% in the sea star Asferias rubens (Vahl 1984). Thus, it seems obvious that sponges may differ from other invertebrates by having exceptionally high energy demands for growth.…”

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Growth and energetics of the sponge Halichondria panicea

Thomassen¹,

Riisgård²

1995

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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The filtration rate (F, m1 min-' measured as clearance of algal cells) and maintenance respiration rate (R,, m1 O2 h-' measured as starvation respiration rate) as a function of Halichondria panicea colony size (dry weight DW, g) were described by: F = 2 8 . 3 5~~~.~'~ and R, = 0.632DWg2', respectively. At the maximum specific growth rate of 4 % d-l the net growth efficiency was about 30 %. The specific respiration rate (R,) as a function of the specific growth rate (p) was described by the equation: R, = np + a where n is the energy cost per unit of growth and a is R, at zero growth rate. It was found that the energy cost of growth constituted 139% of the biomass increase. This showed that sponges apparently have a higher energy demand for growth than other invertebrates. When sponge colonies were transferred to filtered sea water, a near linear decrease of chlorophyll a (chl a) was seen during the first 24 h A similar decrease was observed in sponges transferred directly from the field to filtered sea water. The reduction constants (I) in the 2 cases were 3.3 and 2.8% h-', respectively. The estimated filtration rates, using the equation F,,, = (r X S)/chl a, where S is the steady-state chl a content, were almost identical to filtration rates measured as clearance. It is stressed that sponges have a low water pumping capacity compared with other filter-feeding invertebrates, but compensate for this by a high retention efficiency for small particles z0.1 pm.

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Growth and energetics of the sponge Halichondria panicea

Thomassen¹,

Riisgård²

1995

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…In the experimental aquaria, Hediste worms fed on commercial fish food (Sato & Nakashima 2003, present study), macro-algae (Sato 2006), and the deposits collected from the sediment surface of tidal flats and their isolated components (bacteria and protozoa, diatoms, cyanobacteria, Hediste faeces; see Tsuchiya & Kurihara 1979). Therefore, the filter feeding of the three Asian Hediste species is not obligatory but facultative, as for H. diversicolor (Nielsen et al 1995) and is probably a generic feature of Hediste unique among nereidid polychaetes, although it has yet to be confirmed in the American species, H. limnicola.…”

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“…The latter habit involves consuming a mucous filter which it secretes to trap fine particles brought into the burrow by water circulation. This species shifts from predatory/surface deposit feeding to filter-feeding when the phytoplankton concentration is sufficiently high (Harley 1950, Rönn et al 1988, Riisgård 1991, 1994, Riisgård & Larsen 1995, Nielsen et al 1995, Scaps 2002. There is no record of filter-feeding in any other nereidid species, although obligatory filter-feeding is common in other polychaete families such as the Chaetopteridae, where the filter and pump system is quite similar to that of H. diversicolor (Riisgård 1989, Riisgård & Larsen 1995.…”

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Filter-feeding behavior of three Asian Hediste species (Polychaeta: Nereididae)

Toba

Sato

2013

Plankton Benthos Res

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Abstract:The three Hediste species H. japonica, H. diadroma and H. atoka (Polychaeta: Nereididae) live in burrows in estuarine intertidal flats in eastern Asia and have been regarded as surface deposit feeders. Their filter-feeding behavior was investigated in laboratory experiments where the worms were placed in a U-shaped glass tube. The behavior is basically the same among the three species and the same as that previously observed in H. diversicolor inhabiting Atlantic coasts and consists of the following four steps: (1) Moving up to the end of the tube; (2) retreating slowly down, with the anterior body expanded laterally and moving from side to side in semicircles, making a transparent, funnel-shaped mucous net; (3) orientation of the head at 2.5-6.0 cm below the end of the glass tube, and pumping water through the net by means of active undulating movements of the body for 1-5 min; (4) moving forward and swallowing the mucous net together with the trapped particles. This behavior is accelerated by adding organic particles to the seawater. Such facultative filter feeding is judged as a unique generic characteristic of Hediste among the Nereididae and its ecological significance is discussed in relation to their estuarine habitats.

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“…This same study was used to classify species according to the feeding habit of their families, but other studies were used to revise them (JONES, 1968;NOYES, 1980;WORD, 1980;PLEIJEL, 1983;DOBBS;SCHOLLY, 1986;FONG, 1987;GASTON, 1987;CARRASCO;OYARZÚN, 1988;NIELSEN et al, 1995;FERNER;JUMARS, 1999;GIANGRANDE et al, 2000;BRITAEV;LYSKIN, 2002;LEE et al, 2004;COSTA et al, 2006;AMARAL, 2006;DUBOIS et al, 2009;SMART;DASSOW, 2009;PLYUSCHEVA et al, 2010). Generalized linear models with distance, sediment (Sed) and/or transect (Tr) as predictor variables were also fitted to evaluate the functional community (trophic groups).…”

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Looking at the soft-bottom around a coastal coral reef: the impact of terrigenous input on Polychaeta (Annelida) community

Quesada-Silva

Pires-Vanin

2017

Braz. j. oceanogr.

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Erosion on coral reefs produces fragments of the constructor organisms that are scattered all around, thus enlarging the reef boundaries. Statistical modelling approach was used to investigate whether the Polychaeta community around Sebastião Gomes reef (Abrolhos Bank, Brazil) is influenced equally by sediment characteristics and/or by position related to the reef, that are variables related to the terrigenous input influence. In July 2007, a period dominated by winds that resuspend fine sediment from the land to coastal reefs, sediment samples were taken on four transects perpendicular to the reef (S, W, N and E) and a total of 121 species of polychaetes were recorded. The most abundant species was the carnivorous Goniadides carolinae and the model selected for it approximates to the best models fitted for both total macrofauna and polychaete abundance. These models represented higher abundance in coarse carbonate sediments on windward reef faces, where there is almost no terrigenous sediment. On the other hand, the Polychaeta richness did not depend on the transects. Sebastião Gomes reef is one of the many coastal reefs from Abrolhos Bank, whose healthy is probably in danger because of the increase of mud related to human activities, as deforestation and, recently, mining waste. AbstrAct

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Feeding, growth and respiration in the polychaetes Nereis diversicolor (facultative filter-feeder) and N. virens (omnivorous)-a comparative study

Cited by 93 publications

References 14 publications

Growth and energetics of the sponge Halichondria panicea

Growth and energetics of the sponge Halichondria panicea

Filter-feeding behavior of three Asian Hediste species (Polychaeta: Nereididae)

Looking at the soft-bottom around a coastal coral reef: the impact of terrigenous input on Polychaeta (Annelida) community

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