An integrated water/sediment approach to study plankton (a case study in the southern Adriatic Sea)

Rubino, Fernando; Saracino, O. D.; Moscatello, Salvatore; Belmonte, Genuario

doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.12.023

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“…Cysts were incubated at 22°C, 10:14 h L:D cycle and 100 μmolphotons m −2 sec −1 irradiance and examined daily until germination, up to a maximum of 30 days. The incubation conditions were chosen on the basis of previous studies (Moscatello et al 2004;Rubino et al 2009Rubino et al , 2010a; they have proved to be effective for a large number of species.…”

Section: Cysts Of Planktonmentioning

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A multidisciplinary approach to study confined marine basins: the holobenthic and merobenthic assemblages in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Mediterranean)

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Benthic foraminifera and ostracods, and resting stages (cysts) of plankton were analysed from surface sediment samples collected at 20 stations in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Mediterranean), with the aim to advance our knowledge on the biodiversity and ecological features of confined marine areas and to upgrade the autoecology of the species, and to have a more detailed and complete information to be applied as the baseline in future studies on environmental quality. In order to better assess the spatial distribution of the holobenthic and merobenthic species, we conceived a simple method of spatial analysis, based on all the identified taxa of foraminifera, ostracods and plankton cysts. Five groups were established on the basis of the number of sites per sub-basin where each taxon was registered, and this allowed us to recognise the preferential patterns of distribution for 150 species. The good correspondence between the results of the spatial analysis and those obtained from the analysis of the communities and the uni-and multivariate statistics showed a clear difference between the two sub-basins of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto.

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Section: Cysts Of Planktonmentioning

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“…In the last few years, several studies on the merobenthic community have been carried out in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto, a marine confined area of the Ionian Sea (central Mediterranean) (Rubino et al 1996(Rubino et al , 1998(Rubino et al , 2009, while no data exist on benthic foraminifera and ostracods.…”

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A multidisciplinary approach to study confined marine basins: the holobenthic and merobenthic assemblages in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Mediterranean)

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“…Cysts were incubated at 20 ∘ C, 12 : 12 h LD cycle, 100 E m −2 sec −1 irradiance, and examined on a daily basis, until germination up to a maximum of 30 days. The incubation conditions were chosen on the basis of previous studies [5,6,23]. They have proved to be effective for a large number of species.…”

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“…The existence of benthic stages in the life cycles of holoplankton provides a new key for understanding the role of life cycles in the pelagic-benthic relationship in coastal waters [3,4]. Consequently, assessments of biodiversity at marine sites should take account of the unexpressed fraction of the plankton community contained in the bottom sediments by performing integrated sampling programs [5,6]. Despite the proven importance of resting stage banks in coastal marine ecology, the issue of "resting versus active" plankters has commonly been considered for single taxa and only rarely from the wholecommunity point of view.…”

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“…This is probably due to the great complexity (compositional, functional, and distributional) of resting stage banks. Indeed, it has been demonstrated that at any given moment the species assemblages in bottom sediments (as resting stages) are quite different from the species detectable in the water column (as active stages) [6,7]. However, the study of such marine "seed banks" (as understood by [3], analogous to terrestrial seed banks in forest soils) is complex on many levels.…”

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Plankton Resting Stages in the Marine Sediments of the Bay of Vlorë (Albania)

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et al. 2013

International Journal of Ecology

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In the frame of the INTERREG III CISM project, sediment cores were collected at 2 stations in the Gulf of Vlorë to study the plankton resting stage assemblages. A total of 87 morphotypes were identified and produced by Dinophyta, Ciliophora, Rotifera, and Crustacea. In 22 cases, the cyst belonged to a species absent from the plankton of the same period. The most abundant resting stages were those produced by Scrippsiella species (Dinophyta). Some calcareous cysts were identified as fossil species associated with Pleistocene to Pliocene sediment, although they were also found in surface sediments and some of them successfully germinated, thus proving their modern status. Total abundance generally decreased with sediment depth at station 40, while station 45 showed distinct maxima at 3 and 8 cm below the sediment surface. The depth of peak abundance in the sediment varied with species. This paper presents the first study of the plankton resting stages in the Bay of Vlorë. The study confirmed the utility of this type of investigation for a more correct evaluation of species diversity. In addition, the varying distribution with sediment depth suggests that this field could be of some importance in determining the history of species assemblages.

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