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Fish farm impacts on meiofauna and the microbenthic loop in Posidonia oceanica meadows
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pete, Dorothée Mannard, Jennifer Velimirov, Branko Gobert, S. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | For about ten years, fish farming has been expanding and its impact on the surrounding environment is important. For example, meadows of Posidonia oceanica, the endemic seagrass of the Mediterranean Sea, are fading close to those exploitations. This seagrass is used as an indicator of perturbations but it does not react quickly. So, it is proposed here to use the microbenthic loop (organic matter, bacteria, microphytobenthos and meiofauna) of this ecosystem to detect earlier those perturbations. The exergy index, measuring the distance between an ecosystem and its optimum state (climax), is also calculated on that loop, in order to show its interrest in ecological studies. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/70271/1/posterfourtimco.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
