Distribuição vertical e flutuação sazonal da macrofauna vágil associada a Sargassum cymosum C. Agardh, na praia do Lázaro, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

Jacobucci, Giuliano Buzá; Leite, Fosca Pedini Pereira

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000500004

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Seasonal fluctuations and depth distribution of the vagile macrofauna associated with Sargassum cymosum at Lazaro beach, Ubatuba, São Paulo State, were evaluated through density comparison of higher taxonomic groups among three depth intervals in four periods of the year. Ten groups were identified and among them gammarid and caprellid amphipods were numerically dominant in all sampling periods and did not show any consistent zonation trend. Gastropods, polychaetes and ophiuroids ocurred in lower densities and tended to dominate as depth increased, Wet weight algae variation did not explain the observed spatial and temporal patterns. Biotic interactions, recruitment and environmental parameters are probably involved in seasonal density variation of the faunal groups studied but it was evident that the depth gradient play an important role in vagile macrofauna vertical distribution.

Depth distribution; seasonal fluctuations; macrofauna; Sargassum; phytal; Brazil

Distribuição vertical e flutuação sazonal da macrofauna vágil associada a Sargassum cymosum C. Agardh, na praia do Lázaro, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

Depth distribution and seasonal fluctuations of vagile macrofauna associated with Sargassum cymosum C. Agardh at Lázaro beach, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Giuliano Buzá Jacobucci; Fosca Pedini Pereira Leite

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Cidade Universitária, Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail: jacobucci@hotmail.com ou fosca@unicamp.br

ABSTRACT

Seasonal fluctuations and depth distribution of the vagile macrofauna associated with Sargassum cymosum at Lazaro beach, Ubatuba, São Paulo State, were evaluated through density comparison of higher taxonomic groups among three depth intervals in four periods of the year. Ten groups were identified and among them gammarid and caprellid amphipods were numerically dominant in all sampling periods and did not show any consistent zonation trend. Gastropods, polychaetes and ophiuroids ocurred in lower densities and tended to dominate as depth increased, Wet weight algae variation did not explain the observed spatial and temporal patterns. Biotic interactions, recruitment and environmental parameters are probably involved in seasonal density variation of the faunal groups studied but it was evident that the depth gradient play an important role in vagile macrofauna vertical distribution.

Key Words: Depth distribution, seasonal fluctuations, macrofauna, Sargassum, phytal, Brazil

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AGRADECIMENTOS. A A. Güth pelo auxílio nos trabalhos de coleta do material biológico. A A. Turra pelo auxílio nas análises estatísticas. Ao Centro de Biologia Marinha da Universidade de São Paulo (CEBIMar -USP) pelo apoio logístico. À Capes pela concessão da bolsa de mestrado a G.B. Jacobucci durante a execução do projeto e ao CNPq a F.P.P. Leite (Proc. No 300337/82-5).

Recebido em 29.VI.2001; aceito em 20.V.2002.

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EDGAR, G.J. & P.G. MOORE. 1986. Macro-algae as habitats for motile macro fauna. Monografias Biológicas 4: 255-277.
EDGAR, G.J. & A.I. ROBERTSON. 1992. The influence of seagrass structure on lhe distribution and abundance of motile epifauna: pattern and process in a western Australian Amphibolis bed. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 160: 13-31.
FENWICK, G.D. 1976. The effect of wave exposure on the amphipod fauna of the alga Caulerpa brownii. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 25: 1-18.
GAMBI, M.C.; M. LORENTI; Russo, G.F.; M.B. SCIPIONE & V. ZUPO. 1992. Depth and seasonal distribution of some groups of the vagile fauna of the Posidonia oceanica leaf stratum: structural and trophic analyses. P.S.Z.N.I. Mar. Ecol. 13 (1): 17-39.
GIBBONS, M. 1988. The impact of wave exposure on the meiofauna of Gelidium pristoides (Turner) Kuetzing (Gelidiales.Rodophyta). Est. Coast. Shelf Sei. 27: 581-593.
GUNNILL, F.C. 1982. Effects of plant size and distribution on the numbers of invertebrates species and individuais inhabiting the brown alga Pelvetia fastigiata. Mar. Biol. 69: 263-280.
HAGERMAN, L. 1966. The macro and microfauna associated with Fucus serratus L., with some ecological remarks. Ophelia 3: 1-43.
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HOLMLUND, M.; C. H. PETERSON & M.E. HAY. 1990. Does algal morphology affect amphipod susceptibility to fish predation? Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 139: 65-83.
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LEITE, F.P.P. 1996. Fecundidade de sete espécies de gamarídeos (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea) associados à alga Sargassum cymosum. Iheringia, Sér. Zool., 80: 39-45.
MARTIN-SMITH, K.M. 1993. Abundance of mobil epifauna: the role of habitat complexity and predation by fishes. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 174: 243-260.
MASUNARI, S. 1982. Organismos do fital de Amphiroa beauvoisii. I. Autoecologia. Bol. Zool., São Paulo, 7: 57-148.
MOORE, P.G. 1972. Particulate matter in the sublittoral zone of na exposed coast and its ecological significance, with special reference to the fauna inhabiting kelp holdfasts. Jour. Exp, Mar. Biol. Ecol. 10: 59-80.
_____. 1973. The larger Crustacea associated with holdfasts of kelp (Laminaria hyperborea) in North-East Britain. Cah. Biol. Mar. 14 (4): 493-518.
MUKAI, H. 1971. The phytal animals on the thalli of Sargassum serratifolium in the Sargassum region, with reference to their seasonal fluctuations. Mar. Biol. 8: 170-182.
NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO, M; A. FRANZOSO; M. A. A. PINHEIRO; F.L.M. MANTELATTO & S. SANTOS. 1991. Caracterização física e química da Enseada da Fortaleza, Ubatuba, SP. Rev. Bras. Geoci. 21 (2): 114-120.
NELSON, W.G. 1979. Experimental study of selective predation on amphipods: consequences for amphipod distribution and abundance. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 38: 225-245.
PAULA, E.J. 1988. O gênero Sargassum C. AG. (Phaeophyta-Fucales) no litoral do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Bol. Bot. Univ. São Paulo 10: 65-118.
PAULA, E.J. & V.R. ESTON. 1989. Secondary succession on an exposed rocky intertidal algal community of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Bol. Bot. Univ., São Paulo, 11: 1-9.
PIRES, A.M.S. 1980. Ecological studies on intertidal and infralittoral brazilian Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida). Stud. Neotr. Faun. Environ. 15: 141-153.
Russo, A.R. 1990. The role of seaweed complexity in structuring Hawaiian epiphytal amphipod communities. Hydrobiologia 194: 1-12.
SALA. E. 1997. The role of fishes in the organization of a Mediterranean sublittoral community. II. Epifaunal communities. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 212: 45-60.
SMITH, S.D.A. 1996. The macrofaunal community of Ecklonia radiata holdfasts: variation associated with sediment regime, sponge cover and depth. Austr. Jour. Ecol. 21: 144-153.
SNEATH, P.H.A. & R.R. SOKAL. 1973. Numerical Taxonomy. San Francisco, Freeman and Co., 573p.
STONER, A.W. & F.G. LEWIS III. 1985. The influence of quantitative aspects of habitat complexity in tropical seagrass meadows. Jour. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 94: 19-40.
SZÉCHY, M.T.M. & E.J. PAULA. 1997. Macroalgas epífitas em Sargassum (Phaeophyta - Fucales) do litoral dos estados do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, Brasil. Leandra 12: 1-10.
TARARAM, A.S. & Y. WAKABARA. 1981. The mobile fauna-especially Gammaridea-of Sargassum cymosum. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 5: 157-163.
TARARAM, A.S.; Y. WAKABARA & F.P.P. LEITE. 1986. Vertical distribution of amphipods living on algae of Brazilian intertidal rocky shore. Crustaceana 51: 183-187.
TAYLOR, R.B. & R.G. COLE. 1994. Mobile epifauna on subtidal brown seaweeds in northeastern New Zealand. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 115: 271-282.
TAYLOR, P.R.; M.M. LITTLER & D.S. LITTLER. 1986. Escapes from herbivory in relation to the structure of mangrove island macroalgal communities. Oecologia 69: 481-490.
VIEJO, R.M. 1999. Mobile epifauna inhabiting the invasive Sargassum muticum and two local seaweeds in northern Spain. Aquat. Bot. 64: 131-149.
WIESER, W. 1952. Investigations on the microfauna inhabiting seaweeds on rocky coast. IV. Studies on the vertical distribution of the fauna inhabiting seaweeds below the Plymouth Laboratory. Jour. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 31: 145-173.
ZAR, J.H. 1996. Biostatistical Analysis. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 3^rd ed., 662p.

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Distribuição vertical e flutuação sazonal da macrofauna vágil associada a Sargassum cymosum C. Agardh, na praia do Lázaro, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

Depth distribution and seasonal fluctuations of vagile macrofauna associated with Sargassum cymosum C. Agardh at Lázaro beach, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

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