Hard rock versus soft bottom: the fauna associated with intertidal mussel beds on hard bottoms along the coast of Chile, and considerations on the functional role of mussel beds

By M. Thiel, Niklas Ullrich. Helgoland Marine Research, 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Marine ecosystem engineering by the alien ascidian Pyura praeputialis on a mid-intertidal rocky shore (2004, background): “…(e.g. in the sea: corals, macro-algae, mussels, ascidians), and may be part of biological mechanisms maintaining high species richness at local, seascape (Roff et al. 2003), and regional scales (Tokeshi & Romero 1995, Crooks 1998, Crooks & Khim 1999, Cerda & Castilla 2001, Thiel & Ullrich 2002).”
• Structural and functional effects of Mytilus edulis on diversity of associated species and ecosystem functioning (2007, background): “Previous studies indicate that species richness is dependent on whether mussels are situated on rocky shores or sediment bottoms (Thiel & Ullrich 2002), and is probably related to whether mussel faeces are biodeposited and continuously accumulated in the mussel bed, or if they are washed away by…”
• Habitat structure and complexity as determinants of biodiversity in blue mussel beds on sublittoral rocky shores (2010, background): “This suggests negative interactions in the form of inhibition of species with planktonic larvae due to suspension feeding activity by blue mussels (Commito and Boncavage 1989; Thiel and Ullrich 2002).”
• Impacts of bottom and suspended cultures of mussels Mytilus spp. on the surrounding sedimentary environment and macrobenthic biodiversity (2009, background): “This complex epibenthic matrix provides a biogenic habitat for a large number of plant and animal species, including algae, worms, snails, crustaceans (Tsuchiya and Nishihira 1985; Dittmann 1990; Seed and Suchanek 1992; Reise 2002; Thiel and Ullrich 2002).”
• Habitat complexity and community composition: relationships between different ecosystem engineers and the associated macroinvertebrate assemblages (2011, background): “cordgrass: Capehart and Hackney 1989; Netto and Lana 1999; Hedge and Kriwokwen 2000; Bortolus et al. 2002; mussels: Thiel and Ullrich 2002; Adami et al. 2004; Prado and Castilla 2006; barnacles: Bros 1980; Barnes 2000; Harley 2006).”
• The non-native solitary ascidian Ciona intestinalis (L.) depresses species richness (2007, background): “While mussels are able to crowd out other species at the primary substrate level, their shell surfaces and reef interstices provide new substrate for the settlement of other organisms and a relatively static, stable habitat for mobile species (Witman, 1985, 1987; Thiel and Ullrich, 2002).”
• Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments (2009, unknown): “In epibenthic beds consisting of P. purpuratus and M. chilensis in Chile, most mussels occurred within the size range from 20 to 43 mm with a strong peak around 30 mm.”
• The bioengineer Perumytilus purpuratus (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in central Chile: biodiversity, habitat structural complexity and environmental heterogeneity (2006, result): “…with Perumytilus purpuratus matrices in the Punta de Tralca Bay, central Chile, which is higher than values reported from previous studies conductedon intertidalmussels (Perumytilus, Semimytilus and Brachidontes) in South America (De Amesti, 1994; Thiel & Ullrich, 2002; Adami et al., 2004).”
• Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: their associated invertebrate biodiversity under contrasting wave exposures (2014, background): “In addition, mussel beds increase habitat complexity through the aggregation of living individuals, empty shells, and byssal threads, which provide substrate for colonization and also trap sediments and organic particles that serve as food for small invertebrates (Seed 1969; Suchanek 1985; Crooks an”