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Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Effects of fish farming on seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in a Mediterranean bay: seagrass decline after organic loading cessation
Autores: | Delgado, O; Ruiz, J; Perez, M; Romero, J; Ballesteros, E.
Data: | 1999-01
Ano: | 1999
Palavras-chave: | Aquaculture; Phanérogame marine; Posidonia oceanica; Eutrophisation; Caractéristique du sédiment; Aquaculture; Seagrass; Posidonia oceanica; Eutrophication; Sediment characteristics.
Resumo: | The effects of fish farming on a seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadow at Fornells Bay, Minorca (Balearic Islands) were studied. Changes in plant and meadow features (e.g. shoot morphology, shoot density, biomass, rhizome growth, nutrient and soluble sugars concentrations...) in three stations along a transect from a disturbed (organic pollution due to fish cultures) to an undisturbed site were assessed. The fish culture had ceased in 1991; however, seagrass decline, already reported in a previous study for the period 1988-1990, was still taking place at the time of sampling (July 1994). Differences between stations were very clear; the station closest to the fish cages showed reduced shoot density, shoot size, underground biomass, sucrose concentration and photosynthetic capacities. In contrast, shoots from the most polluted station showed higher P-concentration in tissues and higher epiphyte: biomass than the other two. Since water conditions had recovered completely by the time of the sampling mission, it is proposed that the persistence of the seagrass decline was due to the excess organic matter remaining in the sediment.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00325/43632/43250.pdf

DOI:10.1016/S0399-1784(99)80037-1

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00325/43632/

Editor: | Gauthier-villars/editions Elsevier
Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-villars/editions Elsevier), 1999-01 , Vol. 22 , N. 1 , P. 109-117

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Elsevier, Paris / Ifremer / Cnrs / Ird

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