Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal

Erzini, Karim; Parreira, Filipe; Sadat, Zineb; Castro, Margarida; Bentes, Luís; Coelho, Rui; Gonçalves, Jorge M. S.; Lino, Pedro G.; Martínez-Crego, Begoña; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Ribeiro, J.; Santos, Carmen B. de los; Santos, Rui

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101490

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“…Therefore, the catches estimated in this study were higher than the historical catches. In other lagoons, quantification of provisioning services from the biomass of several commercial fish in vegetated and unvegetated areas of eelgrass beds has been reported 48 . In this study, a significant feature is that the spatial distribution relationship between eelgrass beds and shrimp was shown and the potential map was created to calculate the provisioning services.…”

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Spatial and economic quantification of provisioning service by eelgrass beds in Lake Notoro, Hokkaido, Japan

Ito,

Sonoki,

Minami

et al. 2024

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Eelgrass beds provide a habitat for many high-value fishery resources, and provisioning services, one of the ecosystem services, need to be quantified. However, few examples have been evaluated spatially. We determined the distribution of eelgrass beds in Lake Notoro, a marine lagoon in Hokkaido, Japan, and quantified the provisioning services by the eelgrass beds in relation to Pandalus latirostris, a fishery resource. Acoustic measurement surveys of the eelgrass beds and catch surveys of the shrimp were conducted in July and August 2015. The relationship between catch per unit effort (CPUE) of shrimp and the distribution of eelgrass beds was shown. The estimated distribution area of eelgrass beds was 7.07 km2. Shrimp was frequently caught at water depths of 3–5 m, approximately 200 m from the edge of the eelgrass beds. The expected catch of shrimp in the fishing area of Lake Notoro in 2015 was 25.37 tons and US$ 463.6 thousand. Eelgrass beds were found to affect the fisheries production not only on the inside but also at the edge and outside. The entire coastal space should be evaluated, while considering the effect of the distribution of eelgrass beds, to quantify the provisioning services.

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Spatial and economic quantification of provisioning service by eelgrass beds in Lake Notoro, Hokkaido, Japan

Ito,

Sonoki,

Minami

et al. 2024

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Variability of prey preferences and uptake of anthropogenic particles by juvenile white seabream in a coastal lagoon nursery ground

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Marine plastic litter, originating from land-based sources, enters the marine environment by passing through coastal ecosystems such as lagoons and estuaries. As early life history stages (ELHS) of many commercially important fish species rely on these transitional areas as nursery grounds, we hypothesized that they encounter a spatial gradient of habitat quality and pollution from inner to outer parts of their vital environment. With sizes < 5 mm, anthropogenic particles (AP), among them microplastic (MP) fibers and fragments, entail a high bioavailability for ELHS of fish, potentially facilitating AP uptake at early developmental stages which may have implications for their survival and growth. This study provides a contextualization baseline between feeding preferences and uptake of AP by the white seabream Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) in an estuarine nursery ground on the southern coast of Portugal. Juvenile fish showed a generalized, omnivorous feeding mode with differences in trophic resource utilization between individuals collected at distinct seagrass meadows in the lagoon. A total of 23.13% of the fish (n = 147) were detected with AP in the gastrointestinal tract, and the mean number of AP per AP-feeding individual was 1.64 ± 1.04, with anthropogenic fibers (n = 47) occurring more frequently than fragments (n = 9). Knowledge of the underlying factors for MP ingestion will be greatly enhanced by considering environmental conditions along with species-stage and life-stage specific feeding modes and prey preferences which shape the uptake probability of anthropogenic fibers and fragments.

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Residency, home range and inter-annual fidelity of three coastal fish species in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon

Mignucci,

Forget,

Villeneuve

et al. 2023

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal

Cited by 7 publications

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Spatial and economic quantification of provisioning service by eelgrass beds in Lake Notoro, Hokkaido, Japan

Spatial and economic quantification of provisioning service by eelgrass beds in Lake Notoro, Hokkaido, Japan

Variability of prey preferences and uptake of anthropogenic particles by juvenile white seabream in a coastal lagoon nursery ground

Residency, home range and inter-annual fidelity of three coastal fish species in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon

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