FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Distributional overlap rather than habitat differentiation characterizes co-occurrence of bivalves in intertidal soft sediment systems
BT 
AF COMPTON, Tanya J.
   TROOST, Tineke A.
   VAN DER MEER, Jaap
   KRAAN, Casper
   HONKOOP, Pieter J. C.
   ROGERS, Danny I.
   PEARSON, Grant B.
   DE GOEIJ, Petra
   BOCHER, Pierrick
   LAVALEYE, Marc S. S.
   LEYRER, Jutta
   YATES, Mick G.
   DEKINGA, Anne
   PIERSMA, Theunis
AS 1:1,2,3;2:1;3:1;4:1,2;5:1;6:4;7:3;8:1;9:5;10:1;11:1,2;12:6;13:1;14:1,2;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;
C1 Netherlands Inst Sea Res, Dept Marine Ecol, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
   Univ Groningen, Ctr Ecol & Evolutionary Studies, NL-9750 AA Haren, Netherlands.
   WA Wildlife Res Ctr, Western Australian Dept Environm & Conservat, Wanneroo, WA 6065, Australia.
   Charles Sturt Univ, Inst Land Water & Soc, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia.
   Univ la Rochelle, CNRS, IFREMER, CRELA,UMR Pole Sci 6217, F-17042 La Rochelle, France.
   Ctr Ecol & Hydrol Monks Wood, Huntingdon PE28 2LS, Cambs, England.
C2 INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS
   UNIV GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS
   WA WILDLIFE RES CTR, AUSTRALIA
   UNIV CHARLES STURT, AUSTRALIA
   UNIV LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE
   CTR ECOL & HYDROL MONKS WOOD, UK
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI UNIV-FRANCAISE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.631
TC 14
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-6141.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/sup-6141.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Aiguillon Bay;Marennes Oleron Bay;Mont Saint Michel Bay;Wadden Sea;The Wash;Roebuck Bay;Banc d'Arguin;Sediment diversity
AB Diverse species assemblages are often associated with a diversity of habitat structures. Sedimentary systems seem to be no exception, as within sedimentary systems benthic species diversity within a sample point appears to correlate with sediment grain size complexity. However, it remains to be shown whether total benthic species diversity relates to a system's sediment heterogeneity across multiple systems. In the present paper we examined whether bivalve diversity is associated with: (1) sediment heterogeneity across systems and (2) sediment grain size complexity within systems, at 9 temperate and tropical tidal flat systems. Although bivalve life-history strategies, like post-settlement habitat selection, might suggest that sediment heterogeneity should be important for bivalve species, bivalve diversity and sediment heterogeneity were not associated across systems. Interestingly, the association between total benthic diversity and sediment heterogeneity was also not significant, suggesting that changing species composition across systems does not account for the lack of a correlation between bivalve diversity and sediment heterogeneity. Instead of habitat differentiation, bivalve diversity within a sample point was highest in 'complex' fine-grained sediments and bivalve distributions showed a large degree of distributional overlap in all systems. The results of this study at both smaller and larger spatial scales suggest that coexistence between bivalve species in diverse tidal flats is not associated with increased sediment heterogeneity.
PY 2008
PD DEC
SO Marine Ecology Progress Series
SN 0171-8630
PU Inter-Research
VL 373
UT 000262731000003
BP 25
EP 35
DI 10.3354/meps07732
ID 6141
ER

EF