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Variability of fouling communities in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Northern Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2010

Cataldo Pierri ,
Caterina Longo  and
Adriana Giangrande
Cataldo Pierri*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, CoNiSMa, c/o Ecotekne Campus, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Caterina Longo
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Bari, Italy
Adriana Giangrande
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, CoNiSMa, c/o Ecotekne Campus, 73100 Lecce, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: C. Pierri, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, CoNiSMa, c/o Ecotekne Campus, 73100 Lecce, Italy email: cataldo.pierri@unisalento.it
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Abstract

In order to investigate the intensity and variability of fouling recruitment on artificial hard substrates, three sites were chosen in the First Inlet of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Southern Italy, Ionian Sea). Taxa richness and percentage coverage were examined in three different sampling times within each site. Differences were tested both by univariate and multivariate statistical analysis (ANOVA, SIMPER and MDS). The results show that each site seems to be characterized by its own structural make-up over the whole period of observation, underlying the presence of large-scale variability. By contrast, variability on a smaller scale within each site (replicates) appeared less marked, both in space and time. A set of a quite stable group of species characterized each site. Differences between sites were maintained over time with a difference in community evolution although with a tendency towards a higher similarity in species composition along the time.

Keywords

fouling communitystructural speciesconfined areaMediterranean Sea
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , February 2010 , pp. 159 - 167
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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