期刊
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 819-834出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-021-01192-6
关键词
Artificial substrates; Urban sprawl; Molluscs; Complexity; Chemical composition; Age; Trophic groups
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain [CGL2017-82739-P]
- (Agencia Estatal de Investigacion-AEI-and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional -FEDER-)
Mollusc communities are at risk due to urban sprawl and artificial structures that cannot substitute natural substrates. The key drivers of community structure include complexity, chemical composition, and mineral type. Macro and microscale complexity, chemical composition, and mineral type should be considered in future designs of artificial substrates.
Mollusc communities are getting endangered in the aftermath of urban sprawl because artificial structures do not surrogate natural substrates. In this study, we compared the diversity, community and trophic arrangements of molluscs among different models of artificial substrate and their adjacent natural rock, to detect relationships between some abiotic variables and the mollusc communities. Complexity, chemical composition and age were tested as potential drivers of the community. Diversity, community and trophic structure differed between natural and artificial substrates. Complexity at the scale of cm was detected as the most important factor driving the community structure. In addition, a chemical composition based on silica and/or scarce calcium carbonates seems to be relevant for molluscs, as well as for the secondary substrate where they inhabit. However, age did not seem to be a driving factor. Among the different artificial structures, macroscale complexity was detected as the main factor diverging a drastically poor community at seawall from other artificial structures. In this context, macro and microscale complexity, chemical composition and mineral type are variables to consider in future designs of artificial substrates.
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