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| Garcia,Camilo B.; Salzwedel,Horst. |
| Successional progress was followed in fouling communities, developing under tropical conditions. Primary succession was simulated by immersing asbestos plates. The plates represent small, discrete, isolated parts of habitat. According with expectations, a trend of increasing space dominancy by colonial forms was detected as succession progressed. High within-habitat diversity but global persistency was confirmed for this tropical system. Several mechanisms of succession were found to operate simultaneously. In this Caribbean fouling system thestrong self-replacement tendencies of solitary forms and the low recruitment and growth rates of the potential space dominants (colonial forms) were mostly responsible for the successional patterns observed. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97611995000100006 |
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| García,Camilo B.; Salzwedel,Horst. |
| Recruitment of sessile invertebrates onto fouling plates immersed for consecutive two-week periods during one year was found to correlate with the local climatic regime. For selected species it was found that they recruited at significantly higher levels in certain local climatic periods, but that these periods are not necessarily the same for the different species. A conceptual model is presented in which the recruitment process is divided in a pre-settlement and a post-settlement phase. The model attempts to predict under which combination of global circumstances periods of increased recruitment are to be expected. Application of the model to the data at hand highlights where the research needs for the future are. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97611993000100003 |
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