Dossier para el control y la gestión del agua de lastre y sedimentos de los buques en Colombia

Caracterización de la comunidad de macroinvertebrados marinos asociada a sustratos duros artificiales en la bahía de Cartagena, durante 2018 y 2019 en diferentes épocas climáticas

“…The characterization of the organisms found included the mussel Perna viridis, which was first recorded in the Colombian Caribbean in 2009 (Cañón-Páez, López-Osorio and Arregocés-Silva, 2010;Da Costa and Coatanroch 2009), and has been reported to be established in other Caribbean countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and the Florida coast of the United States (Agard, Kishore and Bayne, 1992;Ingrao, Mikkelsen and Hicks, 2001). This species is recognized for its high establishment capacity due to its high reproductive rate, planktonic dispersal and rapid growth (Baker et al, 2007).…”

“…Previous studies have characterized this area and have shown a strong influence of port activities on macroinvertebrate communities and have even characterized other communities such as bacteria, plankton and fish (Rendón, Vanegas and Tigreros, 2003;Cañón-Páez, López-Osorio and Arregocés-Silva, 2010;Ahrens, et al, 2011;Campos and Acero, 2016), in which the presence of non-native organisms and their possible effects on native communities have been demonstrated.…”