Recreational Diving and Its Effects on the Macroalgal Communities of the Unintentional Artificial Reef Zenobia Shipwreck (Cyprus)

Siciliano, Alfonso; Jiménez, Carlos; Petrou, Antonis

doi:10.4172/2572-3103.1000151

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“…In euphotic zones, shipwrecks provide suitable substrate for micro- and macroalgae (Siciliano et al. 2016 ). Mobile benthic invertebrates, including crustaceans and echinoderms, occupy microhabitats afforded by shipwrecks (Meyer et al.…”

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“…In the Mediterranean, for example, divers disturbed macroalgal communities on the Zenobia shipwreck, altering its biotic cover (Siciliano et al. 2016 ). Fishing methods, such as trawling, over shipwrecks can physically change the wreck’s morphology and vertical relief, altering its habitat characteristics (Brennan et al.…”

Section: Fundamental Ecological Functions and Processes Manifest On S...mentioning

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Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna

Paxton,

McGonigle,

Damour

et al. 2023

BioScience

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An estimated three million shipwrecks exist worldwide and are recognized as cultural resources and foci of archaeological investigations. Shipwrecks also support ecological resources by providing underwater habitats that can be colonized by diverse organisms ranging from microbes to megafauna. In the present article, we review the emerging ecological subdiscipline of shipwreck ecology, which aims to understand ecological functions and processes that occur on shipwrecks. We synthesize how shipwrecks create habitat for biota across multiple trophic levels and then describe how fundamental ecological functions and processes, including succession, zonation, connectivity, energy flow, disturbance, and habitat degradation, manifest on shipwrecks. We highlight future directions in shipwreck ecology that are ripe for exploration, placing a particular emphasis on how shipwrecks may serve as experimental networks to address long-standing ecological questions.

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Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna

Paxton,

McGonigle,

Damour

et al. 2023

BioScience

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“…Shipwrecks are commonplace around UK waters, with many still undiscovered (Firth, 2018). These hard, upright structures in often flat, soft‐sediment habitats attract an abundance of life, consequentially attracting anglers, mid‐water trawlers and SCUBA divers (Firth, 2018; Siciliano et al., 2016; Wiyanto et al., 2020). Although some low‐lying wrecks are subject to trawling pressure (Hickman, pers.…”

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Shipwrecks act as de facto Marine Protected Areas in areas of heavy fishing pressure

Hickman,

Richards,

Rees

et al. 2023

Marine Ecology

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Ubiquitous, industrial use of bottom‐towed fishing gear since the 1800s has altered marine communities and ecosystem services. Outside of legal protection, only areas inaccessible to trawlers are offered any protection. Shipwrecks present hazards to fishing gear and are rarely subject to trawling pressure. As many have been in situ for >100 years, they offer a baseline of ecological potential when trawling pressure is reduced or removed. Five shipwrecks were surveyed off the Berwickshire coast, some within the Static Gear Reserve and others outside. Video transects were collected of shipwrecks, the surrounding 50 m radius and control locations >150 m from the wreck site. Species identified were assigned a category based on their vulnerability to trawling. The effect of distance from a shipwreck on ecological communities within sites Open and Closed to trawling was investigated. The ecological importance of shipwrecks increased relative to trawling pressure. In Open sites, abundance was 340% greater on Wreck locations than Control. Conversely, within Closed sites, abundance was 149% greater in Control locations than Wreck. In Open sites, shipwreck communities are more similar to those in Closed sites, than to the habitat surrounding the shipwreck. Vulnerable species, mostly large, sessile filter feeders, are almost entirely absent from Open sites, but account for ~28% of the total abundance on shipwrecks in Closed sites. This study offers a quantifiable method to evaluate the ecological contribution of shipwrecks in disturbed areas and suggests their role may warrant further research, and consideration in conservation policy, such as inclusion in 30 × 30 objectives. Our findings also demonstrate the possible ecological gains of expanding or including static gear reserves across Marine Protected Areas.

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Multi-use and Multi-vocal Challenges of Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Mires,

Haskell,

Meyer-Kaiser

2024

SpringerBriefs in Archaeology

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The cultural identity of Massachusetts is intrinsically linked to the sea. For hundreds of years, ship-borne trade, migration, whaling, and fishing have tied Massachusetts to a world system of maritime commerce and culture and brought the world back to it through the area that is now Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS). Established in 1992, SBNMS is an 842-square mile area in the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, located 25 miles east of Boston, 3 miles southeast of Cape Ann, and 3 miles north of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Named for Lt. Henry S. Stellwagen, a nineteenth-century Navy surveyor, the sanctuary protects a productive and diverse marine ecosystem which has been the subject of centuries of fishing activity. It is also estimated that 200 shipwrecks rest on the seafloor within the sanctuary’s boundaries, representing more than 400 years of maritime history, industry, and culture (Fig. 6.1).

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Recreational Diving and Its Effects on the Macroalgal Communities of the Unintentional Artificial Reef Zenobia Shipwreck (Cyprus)

Abstract: Oceanography and Marine Research J o u rn al of Oc e a n o g ra phy an d M a ri ne Res e a r c h

Cited by 6 publications

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Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna

Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna

Shipwrecks act as de facto Marine Protected Areas in areas of heavy fishing pressure

Multi-use and Multi-vocal Challenges of Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

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