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Potential novel habitat created by holdfasts from cultivated Laminaria digitata : assessing the macroinvertebrate assemblages

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25/02/2016
Author
Walls, A. M.
Kennedy, R.
Fitzgerald, R. D.
Blight, Andrew John
Johnson, M. P.
Edwards, M. D.
Keywords
Laminaria
Macroalgae
Aquaculture
Holdfasts
Macroinvertebrate
Multivariate analysis
Habitat volume
QH301 Biology
SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
NDAS
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Interest in the cultivation of native kelp species is increasing within Europe. Observations of seaweed farms suggest that they may act as a habitat for associated species, potentially altering the richness of the local area. Previous studies have generally focused on species associated with wild kelps, showing the holdfast to be relatively species-rich. Little research has, however, been conducted on the species associated with cultivated kelps. The habitat created by cultivated kelp holdfasts may act as a novel habitat and not simply an expansion of existing kelp habitat, due to differences in holdfast age, holdfast morphology and holdfast position in the water column. Laminaria digitata from the west of Ireland were examined to test if these differences result in the fauna of cultivated (suspended) holdfasts being distinct from wild (benthic) stands. To place the results in a broader context, patterns were compared to holdfast-richness relationships observed in comparable studies from the NE Atlantic. Total abundance of holdfast epifauna was similar across benthic and suspended holdfasts from the west of Ireland, although species richness was higher in suspended samples. Richness and abundance in suspended kelp holdfasts were consistent with the range of values recorded in other wild kelp studies. There were significant differences in assemblage composition between holdfast types (ANOSIM; R = 0.383, p <0.05). The distributions of faunal feeding types did not, however, vary between suspended and benthic kelps. Suspended holdfasts in the west of Ireland represented a novel habitat with higher species richness and a different species assemblage when compared to adjacent benthic kelps.
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Walls , A M , Kennedy , R , Fitzgerald , R D , Blight , A J , Johnson , M P & Edwards , M D 2016 , ' Potential novel habitat created by holdfasts from cultivated Laminaria digitata : assessing the macroinvertebrate assemblages ' , Aquaculture Environment Interactions , vol. 8 , pp. 157-169 . https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00170
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Aquaculture Environment Interactions
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00170
ISSN
1869-215X
Type
Journal article
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© The authors 2016. Open Access under Creative Commons by Attribution Licence. Use, distribution and reproduction are unrestricted. Authors and original publication must be credited.
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A.M.W. is currently funded by the Dr. Tony Ryan Research Trust, NUI Galway.
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URL
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/aei/v8/p157-169/
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8380

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