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Succesional patterns on fouling plates in the Bay of Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean
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Date
1995
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Patrones sucesionales en las placas de suciedad en la Bahía de Santa Marta, Caribe colombianoAbstract
Successional progress was followed ¡n fouling communities, developing under tropical conditions. Primary succession was simulated by immersing asbestos plates. The plates represent small, discrete, isolated parts of habitat. According with expectations, a trend of increasing space dominancy by colonial forms was detected as succession progressed. High within-habitat diversity but global persistency was confirmed f or this tropical system. Several mechanisms of succession were found to operate simultaneously. In this Caribbean fouling system the strong self-replacement tendencies of solitary forms and the low recruitment and growth rates of the potential space dominants (colonial forms) were mostly responsible for the successional patterns observed.Se siguió el progreso sucesional en comunidades de "fouling" bajo condiciones tropicales. La sucesión primaria fue simulada mediante el uso de placas de asbesto. Las placas representan partes pequeñas, aisladas y discretas de habitat. De acuerdo a lo esperado, se observó que las formas coloniales tienden a dominar el espacio a medida que la sucesión avanza. Se confirmó el patrón de alta diversidad dentro de habitáis junto con persistencia global en este sistema tropical. Varios mecanismos de sucesión operaron simultáneamente. Las fuertes tendencias de auto-reeplazamiento de las formas solitarias y las bajas tasas de reclutamiento y crecimiento de las formas coloniales potencialmente dominadoras del espacio son responsables de la mayor parte de los patrones sucecionales observados.
Journal
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Punta BetínVolume
24Publisher or University
Santa Marta (Colombia), INVEMAR