Suprabenthic biodiversity of Catalan beaches (NW Mediterranean)

Munilla, Tomás; Vicente, Carlos San

doi:10.1016/j.actao.2004.09.006

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“…When analyzing a depth gradient in the central part of the southern Portuguese coast, Dolbeth et al (2007) also found lower values of these biological variables in the shallower and more hydrodynamic areas. The inXuence of the hydrodynamics on the distribution of macrobenthic communities was also reported in other studies (Cunha et al 1997;Janssen and Mulder 2005;Martínez and Adarraga 2001;Munilla and San Vicente 2005;San Vicente and Sorbe 1999). In the present study, the number of exclusive taxa, diversity and density peaked between 10 and 25 m depth.…”

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The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast

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The present study provides updated information on amphipod assemblages of the southern Portuguese coast, the most south-western part of continental Europe. The inXuence of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods was tested by means of univariate and multivariate methods. Samples were collected down to 40 m depth within areas ranging from very Wne sand to gravel. The ratio between density and diversity was found to increase with depth and from coarser to Wner sediments. Both physical variables tested were found to play a major role in structuring amphipod assemblages. However, some dominance of depth was evident as samples were mainly separated according to this variable. Moreover, while only 15 taxa were common to all depth levels, 35 were collected from all sediment types. Both depth and sediment type may override the potential eVects of geographical location, as samples from diVerent areas along the southern Portuguese coast were biologically related. A peculiar habitat was sampled in this study: a maerl bed, which was conWrmed to be a hotspot of density. Nevertheless, this habitat did not harbor a distinct amphipod assemblage but some taxa such as Caprella spp., Lembos websteri, lysianassids and Gammarella fucicola were preferentially collected there. The biogeographical analysis pointed out the occurrence of 8% of Mediterranean endemic species, conWrming the inXuence of the Mediterranean Sea beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, and the AtlanticMediterranean feature of the amphipod fauna of this geographically relevant area. The present results support the need to interpret the spatial distribution patterns of marine species in relation to the combined eVect of depth and sediment characteristics.

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The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast

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“…Synchelidium haplocheles was previously recorded on beaches from the Catalonian coast (Munilla & San Vicente 2005). We have found 90 specimens at depths from 12.4 to 15.6 m in northern locations, Puebla de Farnals and Gandia.…”

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“…Works on amphipods from this area have been mainly carried out on the Catalan coast (Castany et al, 1982;Bibiloni, 1983;Carbonell, 1984;Jimeno, 1993;San Vicente & Sorbe, 1999;Munilla & San Vicente, 2005;Cartes et al, 2007Cartes et al, , 2009Delgado et al, 2009) and the Andalucia coast (Conradi et al, 1995;Conradi & López-González, 1999;Sánchez-Moyano et al, 2007;Gonzalez et al, 2008;Guerra-García et al, 2009a, b;. Other studies have been produced in the Balearic Islands (Cartes et al, 2003;Ortiz & Jimeno, 2003) and indeed, on the Iberian Peninsula east coast (Marti, 1989;Sánchez-Jerez et al, 1999;Vázquez-Luis et al, 2008, where this study was carried out ( Figure 1); however, more studies on the distribution of amphipods are still required in order to increase the knowledge of species distribution and amphipod diversity of this area.…”

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Inventory of benthic amphipods from fine sand community of the Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain), western Mediterranean, with new records

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Dauvin

Del‐Pilar‐Ruso

et al. 2010

Mar. Biodivers. Rec.

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Inventory of benthic amphipods from fine sand community of the Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain) (2004 -2008) of the shallow (12-20 m) soft-bottom homogeneous fine-sand community have allowed the collection of 55 marine amphipod species (53 Gammaridea and 2 Caprellidea) along the 250 km of Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain, Mediterranean Sea). Among the species recorded, one recently described is new to science, five were collected for the first time in the Spanish Mediterranean and 14 were recorded for a second time confirming their presence. Of these 20 species; six are considered to be endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, seven are also north-eastern Atlantic species, and the last seven have a wide geographical distribution in the Indo-Pacific or Arctic and the Atlantic Oceans. Finally, multivariate analyses of species distribution showed changes among locations according to the northsouth axis and depth, parameters that highly influence the benthic communities.

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“…Within the Mediterranean Sea, records of P. aequimanus are known from France (Ledoyer 1972(Ledoyer , 1993, the Iberian Peninsula (Cartes and Sorbe 1999;Munilla and San Vicente 2005), the Aegean Sea (Ledoyer 1993;Baxevanis and Chintiroglou 2000;Antoniadou et al 2004;Dağli et al 2008), Italy (Ledoyer 1993;Sparla et al 1993;Dondi et al 2003), Cyprus (Kocatas et al 2001), Israel (Sorbe et al 2002), and Tunisia (Ledoyer 1993;Zakhama-Sraieb et al 2009). Records of P. aequimanus are also known from the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (Esquete et al 2010) and from the Red Sea (Sorbe et al 2002).…”

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The amphipod assemblages of Sabellaria alveolata reefs from the NW coast of Portugal: An account of the present knowledge, new records, and some biogeographic considerations

Plicanti

Iaciofano

Bertocci³

et al. 2016

Mar Biodiv

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Amphipod assemblages associated with the biogenic reefs built by the honeycomb worm Sabellaria alveolata were studied at two sites (Praia da Aguda and Belinho) along the northwestern coast of Portugal. A total of 3909 specimens were collected, comprising 14 different amphipod species. A first record from the northeastern Atlantic coast was registered here for the species Caprella santosrosai, which was, up to now, recorded only along the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. A male specimen collected from the Sabellaria-reef located in Belinho allowed an update to the known distribution of C. santosrosai, thus altering its previous status as an endemic Mediterranean species. The most common species collected during the study were Microdeutopus chelifer (n = 1828), Jassa ocia (n = 1426), and Hyale stebbingi (n = 452). Forty-three percent of the total recorded species were encountered in both study sites, whereas the remaining 57 % were restricted to a single site (Belinho). The majority of the collected species (93 %) showed an Atlantic-Mediterranean distribution, confirming the close affinity between eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean amphipod assemblages and the role of the Portuguese coast as a transition zone through which numerous warm-water species, coming from North Africa and the Mediterranean Sea, could enter into the Atlantic and possibly get mixed with species coming from the North Sea and the Arctic, typically having affinity for colder waters.

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Suprabenthic biodiversity of Catalan beaches (NW Mediterranean)

Cited by 30 publications

References 12 publications

The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast

The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast

Inventory of benthic amphipods from fine sand community of the Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain), western Mediterranean, with new records

The amphipod assemblages of Sabellaria alveolata reefs from the NW coast of Portugal: An account of the present knowledge, new records, and some biogeographic considerations

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