Zoobenthos
24 pages, 8 figures Among Mediterranean marine life, benthic communities are possibly the most peculiar in terms of richness and endemic species. The distribution and structure of benthic fauna (sessile and vagile) is driven by environmental gradients that change with season, depth, the type of subs...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/93757 2024-02-11T10:07:33+01:00 Zoobenthos Gili, Josep Maria Sardá, Rafael Madurell, Teresa Rossi, Sergio 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/93757 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_12 en eng Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_12 The Mediterranean Sea: Its history and present challenges 12: 213-236 (2014) 978-94-007-6703-4 978-94-007-6704-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/93757 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_12 none Alien species invasions Benthic communities Benthic fauna Complex benthic ecosystems Ecological strategies Endemic species Environmental gradients Hard and soft bottom communities Human perturbations Mediterranean marine life Ocean warming and acidification Sessile fauna Vagile fauna capítulo de libro http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248 2014 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_12 2024-01-16T09:57:22Z 24 pages, 8 figures Among Mediterranean marine life, benthic communities are possibly the most peculiar in terms of richness and endemic species. The distribution and structure of benthic fauna (sessile and vagile) is driven by environmental gradients that change with season, depth, the type of substrate and the interaction between organisms. The combined action of these multiple factors results in a high variety of assemblages and communities. This chapter focuses on the benthic fauna, with the aim to provide a broad description of the hard and soft bottom communities and the general trends of their characteristics and variability. Special emphasis is given to the ecological strategies of the fauna that inhabit in complex benthic ecosystems. The pressures and impacts on these benthic fauna and ecosystems, from alien species invasions, warming effects, ocean acidification and other direct and indirect human perturbations are also illustrated We acknowledge the support of projects LIFE+INDEMARES "Inventroy and designation of marine Natura 2000 areas in the Spanish seas". S. Rossi was supported by the research program "Ramon y Cajal" from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education. Peer reviewed Book Part Ocean acidification Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) 213 236 Dordrecht |
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Alien species invasions Benthic communities Benthic fauna Complex benthic ecosystems Ecological strategies Endemic species Environmental gradients Hard and soft bottom communities Human perturbations Mediterranean marine life Ocean warming and acidification Sessile fauna Vagile fauna |
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Alien species invasions Benthic communities Benthic fauna Complex benthic ecosystems Ecological strategies Endemic species Environmental gradients Hard and soft bottom communities Human perturbations Mediterranean marine life Ocean warming and acidification Sessile fauna Vagile fauna Gili, Josep Maria Sardá, Rafael Madurell, Teresa Rossi, Sergio Zoobenthos |
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Alien species invasions Benthic communities Benthic fauna Complex benthic ecosystems Ecological strategies Endemic species Environmental gradients Hard and soft bottom communities Human perturbations Mediterranean marine life Ocean warming and acidification Sessile fauna Vagile fauna |
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24 pages, 8 figures Among Mediterranean marine life, benthic communities are possibly the most peculiar in terms of richness and endemic species. The distribution and structure of benthic fauna (sessile and vagile) is driven by environmental gradients that change with season, depth, the type of substrate and the interaction between organisms. The combined action of these multiple factors results in a high variety of assemblages and communities. This chapter focuses on the benthic fauna, with the aim to provide a broad description of the hard and soft bottom communities and the general trends of their characteristics and variability. Special emphasis is given to the ecological strategies of the fauna that inhabit in complex benthic ecosystems. The pressures and impacts on these benthic fauna and ecosystems, from alien species invasions, warming effects, ocean acidification and other direct and indirect human perturbations are also illustrated We acknowledge the support of projects LIFE+INDEMARES "Inventroy and designation of marine Natura 2000 areas in the Spanish seas". S. Rossi was supported by the research program "Ramon y Cajal" from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education. Peer reviewed |
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Gili, Josep Maria Sardá, Rafael Madurell, Teresa Rossi, Sergio |
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