Mussels as ecosystem engineers: Their contribution to species richness in a rocky littoral community

By A. Borthagaray, A. Carranza. 2007

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Interactive effects of temperature and salinity on shell formation and general condition in Baltic Sea Mytilus edulis and Arctica islandica (2012, background): “…as biomass producers (Brey et al. 1990, Reusch & Chapman 1997), enhancers of bentho-pelagic coupling (Kautsky 1981, Brey et al. 1990), reducers of water turbidity (Kautsky & Evans 1987, Lozan et al. 1996), and ecosystem en gineers (Lohse 1993, Borthagaray & Carranza 2007, Norling & Kautsky 2007).”
The large-scale impact of offshore wind farm structures on pelagic primary productivity in the southern North Sea (2017, background): “Mussels such as M. edulis play a signiﬁcant role in modifying the natural substrate and increasing species richness (Borthagaray & Carranza 2007).”
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “…normally enhance local richness and diversity (Wright et al., 2002; Lill and Marquis, 2003; Castilla et al., 2004; Bangert and Slobodchikoff, 2006; Borthagaray and Carranza, 2007; Buse et al., 2008; Bouma et al., 2009; Bravo et al., 2009; Cavieres and Badano, 2009; Altieri et al., 2010; Koivisto…”
The decline of mussel aquaculture in the European Union: causes, economic impacts and opportunities (2020, background): “Reviews in Aquaculture published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd98 the water quality and clarity, making the marine ecosystem more suitable for organisms (Borthagaray & Carranza 2007).”
Habitat complexity and community composition: relationships between different ecosystem engineers and the associated macroinvertebrate assemblages (2011, background): “Many studies have been designed to evaluate the effect of a given ecosystem engineer on different faunal assemblages, and they usually compare presence versus absence of the ecosystem engineer (e.g., Castilla et al. 2004; Borthagaray and Carranza 2007 ).”
Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments (2009, unknown): “…Valdivia and Thiel 2006), beds of Semimytilus algosus (Gould) in central Peru (Tokeshi 1995; Tokeshi and Romero 1995) and mussel beds of Brachidontes rodriguezii (d’Orbigny), Mytilus edulis platensis (d’Orbigny) and Perna perna (L.) on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay (Borthagaray and Carranza 2007).”
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: their associated invertebrate biodiversity under contrasting wave exposures (2014, background): “…coast (Palomo et al. 2007), 35 species from the southern African coast (Hammond and Griffiths 2004), up to 46 species from the SW Atlantic coast (Borthagaray and Carranza 2007; Silliman et al. 2011; Arribas et al. 2013), and up to 57 species from the NE Atlantic coast (Crowe et al. 2004;…”
Biological modifiers of marine benthic seascapes: Their role as ecosystem engineers (2012, background): “Bos et al. (2007) also demonstrated, however, the release of accumulated sediment during winter in the transplanted units occurred, with significant erosion.”
Non-indigenous invasive bivalves as ecosystem engineers (2009, background): “For instance, Borthagaray and Carranza (2007) demonstrated that habitat creation by native mussels contributes with 27% of the landscape-level invertebrate species richness in an intertidal rocky shore (i.e., 10 out of 37 invertebrate species occur only in the mussel habitat).”