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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
卷 310, 期 1, 页码 1-12出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2004.03.020
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canopy; Ecklonia radiata; facilitation; light; nongeniculate coralline
Canopy-forming algae often coexist with an understorey of encrusting coralline algae that bleach following the loss of canopies. We tested the hypothesis that canopy loss causes a reduction in photosynthetic activity of encrusting coralline algae concomitant with their bleaching. When canopies were experimentally removed, corallines bleached and their photosynthetic activity was rapidly reduced to half their activity observed under canopies. This result prompted us to test, and Subsequently accept, the hypothesis that exposure of understorey corallines to enhanced light intensity per se (simulation of canopy loss) acts as a mechanism that causes bleaching and reduced photosynthetic activity. Despite bleaching, encrusting corallines maintained reduced levels of photosynthetic activity, and this may explain why, under certain conditions, bleached corallines can persist in the absence of canopy-fort-ning algae. Nevertheless, our data provide evidence that the positive association between canopy-forming algae and encrusting coralline algae is maintained because of shade provided by the canopy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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