Effect of marine litter on the benthic megafauna of coastal soft bottoms: A manipulative field experiment

被引：107

作者：

Katsanevakis, Stelios ^{[1
]}

Verriopoulos, George ^{[1
]}

Nicolaidou, Artemis ^{[1
]}

Thessalou-Legaki, Maria ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Athens, Dept Zool Marine Biol, Sch Biol, Athens 15784, Greece

来源：

MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN | 2007年 / 54卷 / 06期

关键词：

benthic megafauna; coastal ecology; Greece; marine debris; litter; plastics;

D O I：

10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.12.016

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

The effect of litter on the abundance and community structure of soft-bottom epibenthic megafauna was investigated in three coves of the Saronikos Gulf (Aegean Sea). At each site, two surfaces were defined on the sea-bottom. One of the surfaces was uniformly littered with debris (16 items per 100 m(2)), while the other remained 'clean' and acted as control. Benthic megafauna was censused with SCUBA diving, once before the littering episode and then monthly for one year. Both total abundance and the number of species showed an increasing trend in the impacted surfaces, either because the litter provided refuge or reproduction sites for mobile species or because hard-substratum sessile species had the opportunity to settle on provided surfaces. A marked gradual deviation in the community structure of the impacted surface from the control and a clear successional pattern of change in the community composition of the impacted surfaces were demonstrated. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：771 / 778

页数：8

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