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Ecological engineering across organismal scales: trophic-mediated positive effects of microhabitat enhancement on fishes
Marine Ecology Progress Series ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 , DOI: 10.3354/meps13462
D Taira 1 , EC Heery 1, 2 , LHL Loke 1, 3 , A Teo 1 , AG Bauman 1 , PA Todd 1
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ABSTRACT: Retrofitting microhabitat features is a common ecological engineering technique for enhancing biodiversity and abundance of small, epilithic organisms on artificial shorelines by providing refuge spaces and/or ameliorating abiotic conditions. These features are typically too small to be utilised as refugia by larger, highly motile consumers such as fish, but they may affect these organisms through other mechanisms. This study sought to determine whether microhabitat enhancement units alter the fish abundance, richness and assemblage composition on tropical seawalls and explores possible underlying trophic mechanisms. We created 12 experimental plots consisting of 6 enhanced plots, each with 20 microhabitat enhancement tiles, and 6 control plots without tiles on intertidal seawalls at Pulau Hantu, an offshore island south of mainland Singapore. Benthic cover and fish assemblage were surveyed within each plot using photoquadrats and underwater video cameras, respectively, from April 2018 to February 2019. We found greater abundance and species richness and distinct assemblages of fish in the enhanced plots compared to the control plots. These differences were driven largely by an increase in both abundance and richness of fish species with epibenthic-feeding strategies and were significantly associated with higher biotic cover in the enhanced plots, especially epilithic algal matrix (EAM). Our results indicate that, in addition to facilitating epilithic organisms, microhabitat enhancement can provide food resources for epibenthic-feeding fishes, increase fish biodiversity, and alter fish assemblages in tropical urbanised shorelines.

中文翻译:

跨生物尺度的生态工程:营养介导的微生境增强对鱼类的积极影响

摘要:改良微生境特征是一种常见的生态工程技术,可通过提供避难所空间和/或改善非生物条件来增强人工海岸线上生物多样性和小规模石器生物的数量。这些特征通常太小而不能被较大的,活动能力强的消费者(例如鱼)用作避难所,但它们可能通过其他机制影响这些生物。这项研究试图确定微生境增强单元是否改变了热带海堤上鱼类的丰度,丰富度和组合组成,并探讨了潜在的潜在营养机制。我们在汉图岛(Pulau Hantu)的潮间带海堤上创建了12个实验地块,包括6个增强地块,每个地块都有20个微生境增强地砖,以及6个不带地块的对照地块,新加坡大陆以南的一个离岛。从2018年4月至2019年2月,分别使用光敏四分体和水下摄像机对每个样地内的底栖动物盖和鱼群进行了调查。与对照样地相比,增强样地中的丰度和物种丰富度高,鱼群独特。这些差异主要是由于采用表皮采食策略增加了鱼类的丰度和丰富度,并且与改良地块中较高的生物覆盖率显着相关,尤其是表石藻类基质(EAM)。我们的结果表明,除了促进表皮生物外,微生境的增强还可以为表皮喂养的鱼类提供食物资源,增加鱼类的生物多样性,并改变热带城市化海岸线上的鱼类组成。从2018年4月至2019年2月,分别使用光敏四分体和水下摄像机对每个样地内的底栖动物盖和鱼群进行了调查。与对照样地相比,增强样地中的丰度和物种丰富度高,鱼群独特。这些差异主要是由于采用表皮采食策略增加了鱼类的丰度和丰富度,并且与改良地块中较高的生物覆盖率显着相关,尤其是表石藻类基质(EAM)。我们的结果表明,除了促进表皮生物外,微生境的增强还可以为表皮喂养的鱼类提供食物资源,增加鱼类的生物多样性,并改变热带城市化海岸线上的鱼类组成。从2018年4月至2019年2月,分别使用光敏四分体和水下摄像机对每个样地内的底栖动物盖和鱼群进行了调查。与对照样地相比,增强样地中的丰度和物种丰富度高,鱼群独特。这些差异主要是由于采用表皮采食策略增加了鱼类的丰度和丰富度,并且与改良地块中较高的生物覆盖率显着相关,尤其是表石藻类基质(EAM)。我们的结果表明,除了促进表皮生物外,微生境的增强还可以为表皮喂养的鱼类提供食物资源,增加鱼类的生物多样性,并改变热带城市化海岸线上的鱼类组成。
更新日期:2020-12-10
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