Pentapora fascialis, a bryozoan under stress: condition on coastal hard bottoms at Port-Cros Island (Port-Cros national Park, France, Mediterranean) and other sites
Harmelin, J.-G. (2017). Pentapora fascialis, a bryozoan under stress: condition on coastal hard bottoms at Port-Cros Island (Port-Cros national Park, France, Mediterranean) and other sites. Trav. Sci. Parc Natl. Port-Cros 31: 125-133 In: Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros. Parc national de Port-Cros: Hyères. ISSN 0241-8231, more |  |
| Keywords | Bryozoa [WoRMS]; Cheilostomatida [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal | | Author keywords | Bryozoa, Cheilostomata, coralligenous, photo-quadrat, thermal anomalies, partial mortality |
| Abstract | The health status of Pentapora fascialis, the largest erect calcified bryozoan in the Mediterranean, was assessed in June 2014 in Port-Cros national Park. Respective proportions of live and necrotic parts in 96 colonies sampled in coralligenous bottoms (20-40 m depth) were evaluated from photo-quadrats or directly during diving. About half of assessed colonies exhibited partial mortality higher than 25 % of their surface area. Most necrosis resulted from old mortality events, presumably induced by positive thermal anomalies. The physical cause, either natural or anthropogenic, of recent fragmentation of live parts observed in some colonies remains unidentified. Supplementary data provided by photo archives of this species from Hyères Islands and Marseille area for the period 2000-2016 indicate that the condition of this bryozoan was quite contrasted according to sites, depth, habitat types and history of colonies, whose growth-rate is assumed to vary widely. Unlike old colonies established on natural basal substrates, in most cases strongly altered, younger, variously sized colonies attached on raised substrates (e.g. artificial reefs, sea-fans) were in good condition. This trend may indicate that effects of stressors are enhanced when colonies are in contact with the basal substrate. |
| Dataset | - Linares, Cristina; Figuerola, Laura; Gómez-Gras, Daniel; Pagès-Escolà, Marta; Olvera, Àngela, Aubach, Àlex; Amate, Roger; Figuerola, Blanca; Kersting, Diego; Ledoux, Jean-Baptiste; López-Sanz, Àngel; López-Sendino, Paula; Medrano, Alba; Garrabou, Joaquim; (2020); CorMedNet- Distribution and demographic data of habitat-forming invertebrate species from Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages between 1882 and 2019, more
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