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      Substrate type as a selective tool against colonization by non-native sessile invertebrates

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          Different substrates of varying composition, color, texture and orientation may selectively influence recruitment of sessile invertebrates and thereby influence the resultant community. Thus substrates may act as a barrier to the establishment of non-indigenous species (NIS). In southern Brazil, granite is the main rock forming natural rocky walls that are available for encrusting organisms. In this study we tested whether granite selectively influences recruitment and impedes colonization by introduced and cryptogenic species that are already established on artificial substrates within the region. Plates of rough cut granite and of polyethylene were made available each month under a pier at a yacht club in Paranaguá Bay. A community is already established on concrete columns and fiber glass floats on the piers. After one, two and twelve months, the faunal composition of the plates was compared between the two treatments and other artificial substrates. Granite was recruited by all the seven introduced species found in the Bay and by 18 of 26 cryptogenic species and therefore is ineffective as a barrier to NIS colonization.

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          Substratos de diferentes materiais, cores, texturas e orientação podem influenciar seletivamente no recrutamento de invertebrados sésseis e, assim, influenciar a comunidade resultante. Deste modo, o substrato pode funcionar como barreira contra o estabelecimento de espécies não nativas (NIS, na sigla em inglês). No sul do Brasil, o granito é a principal rocha formadora de costões rochosos naturais disponíveis para organismos incrustantes. Nesta investigação, nós testamos se o granito seleciona o recrutamento de espécies e se poderia, assim, impedir a colonização de espécies introduzidas ou criptogênicas já estabelecidas em substratos artificiais na região. Placas não polidas de granito e de polietileno foram submersas a cada mês em um píer de um iate clube na Baía de Paranaguá. Há uma comunidade já estabelecida sobre colunas de concreto e sobre flutuadores de fibra de vidro presentes no iate clube. Depois de um, dois e doze meses, as espécies presentes nas placas de diferentes materiais foram comparadas entre si e também com outros substratos. O granito foi colonizado por todas as sete espécies introduzidas encontradas na região, e por 18 das 26 espécies criptogênicas, sendo então ineficaz como barreira contra a colonização de NIS.

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                Journal
                bjoce
                Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
                Braz. j. oceanogr.
                Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanográfico (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1679-8759
                1982-436X
                September 2010
                : 58
                : 3
                : 219-231
                Affiliations
                [01] Curitiba PR orgnameUniversidade Federal do Paraná orgdiv1Departamento de Zoologia Brasil
                Article
                S1679-87592010000300005 S1679-8759(10)05800305
                10.1590/S1679-87592010000300005
                cce62aeb-ff52-40ca-9c61-c7f7ba436b3b

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 14 April 2010
                : 06 May 2010
                : 05 November 2009
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 73, Pages: 13
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                Conservation,Baía de Paranaguá,Granite,Bioinvasion,Granito,Paranaguá Bay,Conservação,Bioinvasão,Recruitment,Estuário,Recrutamento,Introduced species,Espécies introduzidas,Estuaries,Substrato artificial,Artificial substrata

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