Gradients in biodiversity and macroalgal wrack decomposition rate across a macrotidal, ultradissipative sandy beach |
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Authors: | B Urban-Malinga T Gheskiere S Degraer S Derycke K W Opalinski T Moens |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecology, Sea Fisheries Institute, ul. Kollataja 1, 81-332, Gdynia, Poland 2. Biology Department, Marine Biology Section, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S8, 9000, Ghent, Belgium 3. Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Gulledelle 100, 1200, Brussels, Belgium 4. Centre for Ecological Research, Polish Academy of Science, Dziekanów Le?ny, 05-092, ?omianki, Poland
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Abstract: | The decomposition process of, and the meiobenthic and nematode colonization on, stranded macroalgae were studied along a macrotidal,
ultradissipative sandy beach gradient at De Panne (Belgium). The horizontal patterns of macro- and meiofaunal densities and
diversity in this beach have been well-documented. Defaunated Fucus detritus was buried in situ in litter bags, 10–15 cm under the sediment surface, at seven stations across the beach profile.
Colonization by (meio)fauna and organic matter decomposition rates measured as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and dry weight
loss, were studied after 10, 21 and 52 days of incubation. Algal detritus was colonized mainly by nematodes dominated by Rhabditidae,
Sabatieria, Dorylaimoidea, Monhystera, Paracanthonchus and Daptonema. Organic matter weight loss was slowest at the higher and lower shore and fastest in the mid-shore, in line with the horizontal
pattern of nematode diversity in the beach sediment. However, there was no consistent relationship between nematode diversity
inside the litter bags and organic matter weight loss, prohibiting an unequivocal conclusion on whether the observed parallel
between extant nematode diversity and organic matter decomposition rate indicates a causal relationship or follows from the
fact that both are governed by the same set of physicochemical conditions.
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