Species diversity and abundance of mobile crustaceans associated with living and dead colonies of the invasive sun coral Tubastraea

Silva, Alexandre Ribeiro da; Creed, Joel C.; Tavares, Marcos

doi:10.1007/s10452-023-10027-9

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“…Furthermore, new 3D spaces are constructed within dead coral colonies and between-colonies areas that may host a wide range of reef-dwelling organisms 78 , 79 that may sustain, as revealed in this study, up to 86% of the associated species diversity. Plaisance et al 3 .…”

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Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets

Horoszowski-Fridman,

Izhaki,

Katz

et al. 2024

Commun Biol

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To enhance the practice of farmed-coral transplantation, we conducted a trial of an approach called “Reef Carpets” (RC), which draws inspiration from the commercial turf-grass sod in land-based lawn gardening. Three 8.4m2 RCs were established on a sandy seabed, containing preselected combinations of branching corals (Acropora cf. variabilis, Pocillopora damicornis, Stylophora pistillata) with nursery recruited dwellers, and were monitored for 17-months. Corals within RCs grew, supported coral recruitment and offered ecological habitats for coral-associated organisms. While the unstable sediment underneath the RCs increased corals’ partial mortalities, corals managed to grow and propagate. The extent of fish and gastropods corallivory varied among the coral species and planulation of Stylophora transplants was significantly higher than same-size natal-colonies. The RCs provided conducive environments for fish/invertebrate communities (183 taxa), and each coral species influenced specifically species-diversity and reef-associated communities. Even dead corals played crucial roles as habitats for reef biota, sustaining >80% of the RCs diversity; hence, they should not be considered automatically as indicators of failure. RCs scaled-up reef restoration and generated, in short periods, new reefs in denuded zones with enhanced biodiversity. Yet, RCs employment on soft-beds could be improved by using more structured artificial frameworks, requiring further research efforts.

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Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets

Horoszowski-Fridman,

Izhaki,

Katz

et al. 2024

Commun Biol

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“…In Brazilian waters, two notorious invasive species have been causing damage to both ecosystems and humans: the lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cintra et al, 2023;Haddad et al, 2015) and the sun coral Tubastraea sp. (Creed et al, 2017;da Silva et al, 2023;Lages et al, 2011).…”

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Trypauchen vagina (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) a new established species in the Southwestern Atlantic

Trevisan,

Caires,

Rodrigues

et al. 2023

Austral Ecology

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Trypauchen vagina (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) is a goby that lives burrowed into the substrata feeding on small invertebrates. It is native to the Indo‐pacific region, ranging from Kuwait to China. Recently, this fish has been reported outside the original range of distribution, being found in the Mediterranean Sea, and more recently in the northeastern Brazilian coast. The Mediterranean reports are usually associated with Lessepsian migration, while the reports from Brazil are possibly related to ballast water transportation. In the present work, we provide eight new records from southeastern Brazilian coast, all made in São Paulo state, far from the first record. These additional records raised concern since the presence of an alien species could implicate in environmental and economic losses. Thus, we decide to model the environmental suitability for this goby in the Brazilian coast, specially focusing on major ports, usually places with high ballast water propagule pressure. In addition, an analysis of the suitability in the Red Sea was also made, to verify the hypothesis of Lessepsian migration. The results revealed that temperature and primary productivity are among the most important parameters for the presence of T. vagina, also indicating a high environmental suitability for this species in the Red Sea and Brazilian coast, especially in southeastern region, where the new records were made. Due to the number of collected individuals, it is hard to affirm that this taxon presents a self‐sustaining population in Brazilian waters, but the several registers, in different locations and different life stages point to an establishment of the species in this new region. This population status allied with a high environmental suitability is alarming and should motivate new studies concerning T. vagina in Brazilian waters.

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Species diversity and abundance of mobile crustaceans associated with living and dead colonies of the invasive sun coral Tubastraea

Cited by 2 publications

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Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets

Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets

Trypauchen vagina (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) a new established species in the Southwestern Atlantic

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