Marine ecosystem engineering by the alien ascidian Pyura praeputialis on a mid-intertidal rocky shore

By J. Castilla, N. Lagos, M. Cerda. 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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A bio-engineered soft-bottom environment: The impact of Lanice conchilega on the benthic species-specific densities and community structure (2007, background): “, 2002), ascidians (Castilla et al., 2004), seagrass meadows (e.”
Tube worms promote community change (2006, background): “…beds and mussel banks (Tsuchiya & Nishihira 1986, DeGrave 1999, Edgar 1999, Ragnarsson & Raffaelli 1999, Meyer & Townsend 2000, Angel & Ojeda 2001, Castilla et al. 2004, Van Gaever et al. 2004) and have shown that bioengineering affects recruitment, survival and the spatial distribution of…”
Effects of disturbance on the diversity of hard-bottom macrobenthic communities on the coast of Chile (2005, background): “Members of the genus Pyura offer complex habitats for diverse macrobenthic communities, acting as ‘habitatengineers’ (Sepúlveda et al. 2003, Castilla et al. 2004).”
The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species (2020, background): “Furthermore, this argument posits that invasion scientists should act similarly to astronomers or particle physicists, who analyse scientific phenomena without considering moral values or practical consequences of their scientific research (Slobodkin 2001; Brown and Sax 2004).”
Can Invasive Species Facilitate Native Species? Evidence of How, When, and Why These Impacts Occur (2006, background): “Dense colonies of the intertidal ascidian Pyura praeputialis, a recent invader to the rocky coast of Chile, harbor 79 species of invertebrates, 55% of which are not found outside the ascidian matrices (Castilla et al. 2004).”
The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “…1996, Cuddington and Hastings 2004,Wright et al. 2004), analyses of the community impacts of engineers (Wright et al. 2002, Lill and Marquis 2003, Castilla et al. 2004), integration of trophic and engineering impacts (Wilby et al. 2001), cross-system and cross-taxa reviews of engineers and their…”
Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high‐Andean cushion plant (2006, methodology): “…habitat can be summarily visualized using ordination techniques (Green et al. 1999, Wright et al. 2002, Lill and Marquis 2003, Perelman et al. 2003, Castilla et al. 2004), compared using similarity indices (Wright et al. 2002, Castilla et al. 2004), and described by summation from species lists.”
Ascidians as models for studying invasion success (2015, background): “2014a), and competition (Castilla et al. 2004; Rius et al. 2014a) can potentially influence the spatial distribution of ascidians.”
The colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. A: Current distribution, basic biology and potential threat to marine communities of the northeast and west coasts of North America (2007, background): “In some cases, these rapid population explosions are known to reduce the abundance of previously established benthic species and cause significant changes in benthic community structure (Whitlatch et al. 1995; Bak et al. 1996; Lambert 2001; Castilla et al. 2004).”
A conceptual framework for comparing species assemblages in native and exotic habitats (2005, background): “…and Sauriau (1999) report greater species richness of invertebrate phyla in mudflat habitat invaded by the gastropod, Crepidula fornicata , and Castilla et al. (2004) report greater species richness of invertebrate phyla in intertidal habitat invaded by the ascidian, Pyura praeputialis.”
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “…challenge the extended concept that bioengineer species 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;…”
Mussels as ecosystem engineers: Their contribution to species richness in a rocky littoral community (2007, background): “…reported that macro-invertebrate diversity did not show differences between sites at a local scale in Antofagasta Bay (Chile), which suggests that the effect of the exotic engineer Pyura praeputialis on the increase of species richness was similar along the coast of the bay (Castilla et al., 2004).”
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).”
Phylogeography of the widespread marine invader Microcosmus squamiger (Ascidiacea) reveals high genetic diversity of introduced populations and non‐independent colonizations (2008, background): “They have the ability to outcompete sessile organisms and to alter ecosystem functioning in numerous ways (Castilla et al ., 2004; Bourque et al ., 2007; Bullard et al ., 2007; Wallentinus & Nyberg, 2007).”
Habitat structure and complexity as determinants of biodiversity in blue mussel beds on sublittoral rocky shores (2010, background): “The diversity of functional traits in an ecosystem is considered more important than the diversity of its species, and the number of functional groups in an ecosystem can also reveal how diVerent types of organisms are aVected by the activity of a bioengineer (Castilla et al. 2004).”
The humboldt current system of northern and central chile : Oceanographic processes, ecological interactions and socioeconomic feedback (2007, background): “Superior competitors themselves may be suppressed by predators (e.g., mussels and ascidians by gastropod and seastar predators; Paine et al. 1985, Castilla 1999, Castilla et al. 2004b) and grazers (Vásquez & Buschmann 1997, Buschmann et al. 2004a).”