Sea Turtle Epibiosis: Global Patterns and Knowledge Gaps [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Competition for space drives many marine propagules to colonize the external surfaces of other marine organisms, a phenomenon known as epibiosis. Epibiosis appears to be a universal phenomenon among sea turtles and an extensive body of scientific ...
Nathan J. Robinson +3 more
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Chemical control of bacterial epibiosis on ascidians [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1994 Two co-occurring ascidians of the Pacific subtidal, Polyclinum planum and Cystodytes lobatus, were found to exhibit remarkably different numbers of surface bacteria. On average, epibacterial densities on P. planum were 140 times greater than those on C lobatus as measured by plate-counting methods.
Wahl, Martin, Jensen, P. R., Fenical, W.
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Effects of epibiosis on consumer–prey interactions [PDF]
Hydrobiologia, 1997 In many benthic communities predators play a crucial role in the population dynamics of their prey. Surface characteristics of the prey are important for recognition and handling by the predator. Because the establishment of an epibiotic assemblage on the surface of a basibiont species creates a new interface between the epibiotized organism and its ...
Wahl, Martin, Hay, M. E., Enderlein, P.
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In a squeeze: Epibiosis may affect the distribution of kelp forests. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 AbstractThe processes limiting the population recovery of the kelp Saccharina latissima after recent large‐scale loss from the south coast of Norway are poorly understood. Previous investigations do, however, suggest that the impacts of biotic interactions (epibiosis and competition) and increased water turbidity are important.
Sogn Andersen G, Moy FE, Christie H.
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Epibiosis and parasitism of coquina clam Donax spp.: Location, location, location!
Invertebrate Biology, 2023 AbstractCryptic species of coquina clams Donax fossor and D. variabilis carry the hydroid epibiont Lovenella gracilis and are infected with metacercariae of the monorchiid parasites Lasiotocus trachinoti and L. choanura. The associations among this host–epibiont–parasite system were investigated.
Eric J. McElroy +3 more
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Grounds, Beds, and Reefs of the Endangered Coral <i>Cladocora caespitosa</i> With Description of the Tremiti Reef. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study provides an overview of the distribution of the three ecosystem types formed by Cladocora caespitosa and describes newly discovered ones at Tremiti Islands (Adriatic Sea, Italy). The spatial distribution, biometry, size structure, and conservation status of the Cladocora formations have been investigated and compared at the Mediterranean ...
Chimienti G +4 more
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Long-term trends of epibionts reflect Mediterranean striped dolphin abundance shifts caused by morbillivirus epidemics. [PDF]
J Anim EcolThis original research piece demonstrates, through empirical and theoretical modelling approaches, that the epibionts of striped dolphins indicate dolphin abundance shifts caused by epidemics of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV). In addition, we provide the first SIR model to investigate the epidemiology of DMV in western Mediterranean striped dolphins ...
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Epibiotic pressure contributes to biofouling invader success. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 Reduced competition is a frequent explanation for the success of many introduced species. In benthic marine biofouling communities, space limitation leads to high rates of overgrowth competition.
Leonard K +4 more
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Review of Macropodia in the Black Sea supported by molecular barcoding data; with the redescription of the type material, observations on ecology and epibiosis of Macropodia czernjawskii (Brandt, 1880) and notes on other Atlanto-Mediterranean species of Macropodia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Inachidae) [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2020 Macropodia czernjawskii (Brandt, 1880), described from the Black Sea, was ignored in the regional faunal accounts for more than a century, although it was recognised in the Mediterranean. Instead, M. longirostris (Fabricius, 1775) and M.
Vassily A. Spiridonov +4 more
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The Role of Invasion Status and Taxon of Basibionts in Marine Community Structure
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Studies on non-native epibionts typically focus on the organismal-level impacts of epibiosis on basibionts, rather than community-level impacts of this relationship.
Kate Lazzeri, Linda A. Auker
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