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| De Smet, Bart; Godet, Laurent; Fournier, Jerome; Desroy, Nicolas; Jaffre, Mikael; Vincx, Magda; Rabaut, Marijn. |
| The tube-building polychaete Lanice conchilega can form dense populations, often called reefs, which promote benthic community change and constitute feeding grounds for secondary consumers. The aim of this study was to quantify the role of the L. conchilega reef of the Bay of the Mont Saint-Michel (BMSM) for feeding waders, by combining macrobenthos data, bird counts and bird diet information. Wader densities in the reef were on average 46.6 times higher than in non-reef areas. According to faecal analyses, waders in the reef mainly selected the accompanying fauna and especially crustaceans. The attractiveness of the reef to feeding birds may be largely explained by the high abundance, richness and biomass of macrobenthic species in the reef compared with... |
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| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00134/24556/22769.pdf |
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| Godet, Laurent; Fournier, Jerome; Jaffre, Mikael; Desroy, Nicolas. |
| In coastal areas, reef-builder worms often are bio-engineers by structuring their physical and biological environment. Many studies showed that this engineering role is determined by the densities of the engineer species itself, the highest densities approximately corresponding to the most stable areas from a sedimentological point of view, and hosting the richest and the most diverse benthic fauna. Here, we tested the potential influence of the spatio-temporal dynamics and the spatial fragmentation of one of the largest European intertidal reefs generated by the marine worm Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766) (Annelida, Polychaeta) on the associated benthic macrofauna. We demonstrated that the worm densities do have a significant positive role on the... |
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Palavras-chave: Reefs; Zoobenthos; Stability; Fragmentation; Tidal flats; Bay of the Mont-Saint-Michel. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00044/15560/12973.pdf |
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