期刊
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 30-38出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.07.011
关键词
Artificial reef; Offshore structures; Benthos; Fish; Fish foraging; Soft sediment; Australia; Nemadactylus douglasii
资金
- Australian Research Council [LP120100592]
- Australian Research Council [LP120100592] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Artificial reefs are deployed in coastal systems to meet a range of social objectives and infrastructure requirements, such as recreational diving and fisheries enhancement. Such reefs are typically deployed on soft sediments and investigated the composition of benthic infauna, sediment characteristics, and demersal fish foraging activity surrounding a large, steel, designed offshore artificial reef (OAR), measuring 12 m x 16 m x 12 m (height x length x width) and weighing approximately 42 tonnes. Using a gradient approach we established four transects with sediment sampling sites located 15, 30, 60, 120 and 240 m from the OAR. Taxon richness of infauna was lower close to the OAR (15, 30 m), and abundances of total infauna elevated at 15 m, driven largely by two families of polychaete (Onuphidae and Spionidae). Sediment characteristics (grain size, total organic carbon, metals) did not vary with distance from the OAR. Using unbaited videos we established that fish foraging activity on the soft sediments was enhanced close to the OAR (15 m), with a 5-10 fold increase in total foraging time that was largely accounted for by the activity of four benthivorous fish species (blue morwong Nemadactylus douglasii, the silver trevally Pseudocaranx georgianus, and goatfishes Upeneichthys vlamingii and U. lineatus). Fish foraging may cause changes in the composition of benthic infauna due to disturbance and selective predation. The effective benthic 'ecological halo' or 'footprint' of the OAR was 15 times the area of the actual reef. We demonstrate that a single large OAR can influence the surrounding benthic invertebrate and vertebrate communities, but that the effects are highly localised.
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