The aim with this review was to investigate whether a reconnection of an oxbow lake can contribute to higher biodiversity. However, oxbow lakes can be divided in three categories: Lentic- (connected with both ends to the river bed), semi-lentic- (connected with one end) and lotic oxbow lakes (Isolated from the riverbed). Aquatic organisms such as fish, aquatic invertebrates, amphibians and macrophytes has been studied. The result showed that hydrological connectivity determines both biodiversity and water quality in oxbow lakes. Lotic oxbow lakes consisted low biodiversity and it’s dominated by amphibians. Semi-lentic oxbow lakes contributes with highest biodiversity of macrophytes, fish and aquatic invertebrates. Lentic oxbow lakes consisted less biodiversity and was dominated by fish. In conclusion, reconnection of an oxbow lake can be used as a restoration project to improve biodiversity.

Climate change and introduced species are among the top five threats to freshwater systems face. Tropical regions are considered to be especially sensitive to the effects of climate change, while island systems are more susceptible to species introductions. Climate-driven changes in rainfall are predicted to decrease streamflow and increase flash flooding in many tropical streams. In addition, guppies (Poecilia reticulata), an invasive fish, have been introduced to many tropical freshwater ecosystems, either intentionally for mosquito population control, or accidentally because of the aquarium trade. This dissertation examines the effects of climate-driven change in rainfall and introduced guppies on stream structure (resource and invertebrate biomass and composition) and function (nutrient recycling) in Trinidad and Hawaii. In the first data chapter we used a time series to examine how nutrient recycling of guppies changes in the first 6 years after introduction to a new habitat and to examine drivers of these changes. We found that when guppy populations establish in a new environment, they show considerable variation in nutrient recycling through time. This resulted from changes in guppy density in the first two years of introductions, and changes in individual excretion in subsequent stages. In the following chapter we utilized a rainfall gradient that mimics forecasted, climate-driven changes in precipitation and resulting changes in streamflow to examine the effects of climate change on stream food resources and macroinvertebrates. We found that the drying of streams across the gradient was associated with a decrease in resource quality and a 35-fold decline in macroinvertebrate biomass. Invertebrate composition also switched to taxa with faster turnover rates. In the third data chapter we used this same space-for-time substitution approach to determine if climate-driven changes in stream structure also affected stream function. We showed that population nutrient recycling rates declined at the drier end of our rainfall gradient as a result of drops in population densities. We also found that under the current climate scenario, community excretion supplied up to 70% of the nutrient demand, which was ten-fold lower with projected climate changes in streamflow. Lastly, since freshwater ecosystems often face multiple human impacts, including climate change and invasive species, we wanted to understand how climate-driven changes in flow might alter the impact of introduced guppies on stream ecosystems. We selected several streams with guppies and several without guppies along the Hawaii rainfall gradient to examine if the effect of guppies changed with differences in streamflow. We found that the two stressors had synergistic effects on macroinvertebrate biomass and nutrient recycling rates. We concluded that climate change appeared to enhance effects of guppies, through direct and indirect effects. Overall, this dissertation shows that both climate change and species invasion can affect stream ecosystems at multiple levels of organization. This dissertation demonstrates that the effects of anthropogenic stressors are not static through time, and emphasizes the need and utility of using several methodological approaches when measuring the temporal effects of stressors. We also underline the significance of assessing multiple stressor interactions, as more than one stressor often impacts ecosystems. / Graduate / 2019-09-01

Wetlands are globally important biogeochemical hotspots, and their roles as either significant sources of greenhouse gas or carbon sinks are strongly controlled by environmental drivers such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus availability, which can stimulate emission of three greenhouse gases: nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Mounting evidence suggests that aquatic invertebrate activity can enhance wetland greenhouse gas flux, through bioturbation and bioirrigation of surrounding sediments. However, waterbirds reduce the density of aquatic invertebrates, which could potentially reduce greenhouse gas flux. Alternatively, the nutrient contents of waterbird guano may stimulate microbial activity responsible for these gas fluxes. The research project FLAMMINGGOS (Functional Links in Avian, Microbial, Macrophyte, and INvertebrate Greenhouse Gas Output Stimulation) aims to test the relative strength of top-down and bottom-up effects of predatory waterbirds on wetland greenhouse gas fluxes. This study is a part of the FLAMMINGGOS project and studied the bottom-up stimuli effects of methane flux, through addition of waterbird guano to sediment cores sampled from three sites in Doñana, Spain. Guano did not enhance methane flux; on the contrary, the overall flux rates decreased after guano addition for one site. There was also a positive correlation between methane flux and the presence of benthic invertebrates. This suggests that the top-down gas-stimuli effects of waterbirds may be stronger than the bottom-up; benthivorous waterbirds, such as flamingos, may lessen the emissions of CH4 through predation on benthic invertebrates. Further research is however required to fully understand these interactions and gas flux stimuli effects. / FLAMMINGGOS

Marine communities are affected by oceanographic processes, which influence ecological interactions, such as recruitment rates, that are essential regulators of community dynamics. These relationships are not constant; they change in space and time or among taxa. We defend the thesis that oceanographic processes of climatic origin influencing larval abundance at the study region, regulate and establish the trends in settlement and recruitment of invertebrates (cirripeds and bivalves) at rocky shore intertidal. We first investigated the recruitment at different temporal scales and its relationships with physical forcings, chlorophyll-a concentration and sea surface temperature. Second, we focused on the spatial synchrony and contrasts of recruitment, and interspecific trends. Third, we described and evaluated the co-variation between cold fronts and the larval abundance and settlement. We concluded that there is a high degree of correlation between recruitment/settlement and the variation of the wind field, which set temporal trends. Cold fronts are important regulators of settlement, but higher recruitment was associated to NE-E winds. Barnacle recruitment is more susceptible to the environmental variations compared to bivalves. Regional recruitment is not spatially synchronic with differences in the scale of 100 km. This study highlights the importance of oceanic-climatic phenomena as predictors of spatio-temporal trends of recruitment showing that climatic fluctuations might have contrasting effects on rocky shore communities. / As comunidades marinhas são afetadas por processos oceanográficos que influenciam as interações ecológicas, como as taxas de recrutamento, reguladores essenciais da dinâmica dessas comunidades. Essas relações não são constantes, elas mudam no espaço e no tempo, ou entre taxa. Aqui nós defendemos a tese que processos oceanográficos de origem climática, por influenciarem a abundância larval região de estudo, regulam e estabelecem tendências do assentamento e recrutamento de invertebrados (cirripedes e bivalves) do entremarés de costas rochosas. Primeiramente, nós investigamos o recrutamento em diferentes escalas de tempo e sua relação com forçantes físicas, concentração de clorofila-a e temperatura da superfície do mar. Em um segundo momento, nós focamos na sincronia e nos contrastes espaciais do recrutamento, e as tendências inter-específicas. Por fim, descrevemos e avaliamos a co-variância entre frentes frias, abundância larval e assentamento. Concluímos que há um alto grau de correlação entre recrutamento/ assentamento e a variação do campo de ventos, o qual estabelece as tendências temporais. As frentes frias são reguladores importantes do assentamento, mas o recrutamento mais alto está associado a ventos de NE-E. O recrutamento de cirripedes é mais susceptível às variações ambientais se comparado aos bivalves. O recrutamento regional não é sincrônico no espaço, com diferenças na escala de 100km. Este estudo destaca a importância dos fenômenos oceano-climáticos na previsão de tendências espaço-temporais do recrutamento, mostrando que flutuações climáticas podem ter efeitos contrastantes nas comunidades de costas rochosas.

O uso acentuado de fármacos e produtos de cuidado pessoal (FPCP) por grande parcela da população, associado ao aumento do número de habitantes, principalmente, em regiões costeiras, gera uma consequente e contínua entrada destas substâncias no ambiente. Com isso há uma necessidade crescente de se investigar a presença e o comportamento desta classe de contaminantes, principalmente em sedimentos, uma vez que estes são capazes de acumular e apresentar concentrações relativamente perigosas a organismos não-alvos. Assim, este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o risco ambiental do fármaco fluoxetina (FLU) presente em sedimentos marinhos da região de Santos/SP, Brasil, por meio de ensaios ecotoxicológicos integrados à análises químicas para quantificação deste fármaco no ambiente marinho. Para tanto foram utilizados invertebrados marinhos, espécie Mytella charruana para a caracterização de citotoxicidade e atividade de biomarcadores, e as espécies Perna perna e Echinometra lucunter em ensaios de desenvolvimento embriolarval. Todos os orgismos-teste foram expostos à sedimentos marinhos previamente marcados com FLU. Por meio de técnicas de HPLC-ESI-MS/MS, foram identificadas e quantificadas concentrações da ordem de 10,4 ng.g-1 em sedimentos coletados no entorno do emissário submarino de esgoto de Santos (Baía de Santos, São Paulo - Brasil). A FLU apresentou efeitos sobre o desenvolvimento embriolarval de E. lucunter e P. perna e efeitos cito-genotóxicos para a espécie M. charruana, em concentrações ambientalmente relevantes. Segundo o método utilizado para avaliação de risco ambiental, a fluoxetina pode ser considerada como substância potencialmente perigosa para invertebrados aquáticos. / The high consumption of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCP) by a significant part of the human population, associated with the increase in the number of inhabitants, mainly in coastal regions, causes a continuous entry of these substances into the environment. Thus, there is a growing need to investigate the presence and behavior of this class of contaminants, especially in sediments, since they can accumulate and create relatively hazardous concentrations to non-target organisms. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental risk of fluoxetine (FLU) present in marine sediments from the region of Santos/SP, Brazil, using ecotoxicological assays with chemical analyses so the amount of this pharmaceutical drug in the marine environment could be quantified. For this purpose, the marine invertebrates Mytella charruana species were used for the characterization of citotoxicity and endpoints using biomarkers, and the species Perna perna and Echinometra lucunter in embryo larval tests. All organisms used in the experiments were exposed to marine sediments previously spiked with known concentrations of FLU. Using LC-ESI-MS/MS, the environmental levels of FLU were quantified in marine sediments from the vicinities of the Santos submarine sewage outfall (Bay of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) at 10.4ng.g-1. The fluoxetine has presented effects over the embryo larval development of E. lucunter and P. perna as such genotoxic and citotoxic effects for the M. charruana species at environmentally relevant concentrations. According to the employed ERA method, fluoxetine can be considered as a pontencially dangerous substance for acquatic invertebrates.

Schifffahrt stellt weltweit eine der wichtigsten Nutzungen der Flüsse und Seen dar, die zukünftig weiter zu nimmt. Sie schädigt Ufer durch Wellenschlag erheblich. Die Effekte von Schiffswellen auf benthische Wirbellose sind aber bisher kaum bekannt, obwohl diese eine zentrale Rolle im litoralen Nahrungsnetz spielen. Daher untersuchte ich 1) die direkten Effekte von Schiffswellen auf benthische Wirbellose, 2) die resultierenden Auswirkungen auf trophische Interaktionen und 3) das Wachstum und die Fitness von Wirbellosen, sowie 4) die langfristigen Änderungen der litoralen Wirbellosenzönosen. Labor- und Feldversuche zeigten, dass mit zunehmender wellengenerierter Sohlschubspannung mehr Individuen verdriftet wurden. Die Verdriftung wurde jedoch durch eine hohe strukturelle Habitatkomplexität gemindert, da diese die Wellenenergie stärker dissipierte und den Wirbellosen bessere Festhaltemöglichkeiten bot. Die Verdriftung der Wirbellosen bewirkte ein höheres Prädationsrisiko durch spindelförmige Fische, während hochrückige Fische die Ingestion bei Wellenexposition reduzierten. Wellenschlag verringerte auch das Wachstum und die Fitness nativer Wirbellosenarten, indem die Ingestion verringert oder der Energieverbrauch erhöht wurde, wohingegen Neozoen nicht beeinträchtigt wurden. Der kumulative Effekt von Schiffswellen veränderte die Artenzusammensetzung benthischer Zönosen sehr. Die Abundanz nativer Wirbelloser und die Artenzahl waren an exponierten Ufern geringer, während die Abundanz invasiver Arten zunahm. Folglich beeinträchtigen Schiffswellen benthische Wirbellose auf der Ebene der Individuen, Arten, Zönosen, sowie tropischer Interaktionen, und können so die ökologische Struktur und Funktion des gesamten Litorals beeinflussen. Durch Schutz komplexer Habitate wie Wurzeln und dichte Schilfbestände, sowie durch Wellenschlagsreduzierung durch größere Mindestabstände zum Ufer und angepasste Fahrtgeschwindigkeit, können die Auswirkungen von Schiffswellen gemindert werden. / Inland navigation is a major human use of rivers and lakes worldwide which is expected to increase in the future. It significantly affects shore habitats by ship-induced waves. In contrast to the importance of such pressures, the effects of these hydrodynamic disturbances on benthic invertebrates in the littoral zones are poorly understood, even that invertebrates are a central element of littoral food webs. Hence, I investigated 1) the direct and immediate effects of ship-waves on benthic invertebrates, 2) their subsequent effects on trophic interactions and 3) on the growth and fitness of invertebrates, and finally 4) the long-term effects on the community composition. Laboratory and field experiments showed increasing detachment of invertebrates with higher wave-induced shear stress. Detachment was significantly mitigated by higher structural complexity of the habitats, as complex habitats dissipate wave energy and provide better fixing possibilities. Moreover dislodgement of invertebrates led to a higher risk of being preyed upon by fusiform fish, while deep bodied fish reduced feeding under waves. Waves also reduced growth and fitness of native invertebrates via reduced feeding or increased energy costs, while non-native invertebrates were not affected. The cumulative impact of ship-waves alters the community composition of benthic invertebrates. The abundance of native invertebrates and total species richness was lower at exposed sites, while non-native invertebrates increased in abundance. Thus, ship-waves affect benthic invertebrates on the individual, species, and community levels, as well as the interaction of trophic levels, and hence will alter the ecological structure and function of whole littoral zones. Adverse effects of ship-waves may be mitigated by protecting structural complex habitats such as tree roots and dense reed belts, and by minimizing wave generation by increasing minimum sailing distance to shore or by adjusting vessel speed.

by Amber L. Garr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web. / The presence of heavy metals and other pollutants is detrimental to marine ecosystems. The queen conch, once an important fisheries species in the Florida Keys, has not sufficiently recovered after a 25-year fishery closure. Research has shown high levels of copper and zinc in the gonads and digestive glands of adult conch found in the nearshore waters. Four sites relevant to queen conch larval recruitment were tested in 2010 for the presence of copper and zinc in the water, phytoplankton, sediment, and seagrass epiphytes over seven months. Both metals were detected in all sample types and no seasonal or geographical differences were detected. Surface water concentrations from the field were used to conduct acute and chronic toxicity tests on various ages of queen conch larvae and their phytoplankton food source. When zinc concentrations (0-40 (So(Bg/L) similar to those measured in situ were used, there was no significant impact on conch larval survival although some velar lobe de velopment was impaired. However, field concentrations of copper (0-15 (So(Bg/L), which often surpassed water quality standards, negatively impacted growth, survival, and development of the larvae. Chronic exposure to copper, through the water and food, disrupted the metamorphic success of competent larvae and decreased post-metamorphosis survival. Exposure to copper at later life stages increased mortality, suggesting that heavy metals have a negative effect on larval recruitment in localized areas of the Florida Keys. Structural equation modeling revealed that copper and zinc are moving through the systems differently and are best represented by two different models.

Il est maintenant connu que de nombreux invertébrés peuvent moduler leur réponse immunitaire en fonction de leur expérience immunologique. Ce phénomène est appelé priming immunitaire. Si les mécanismes du priming immunitaire restent encore assez méconnus, il a pour conséquence d’apporter un bénéfice aux individus lors d’une seconde rencontre avec un agent pathogène, via une élévation de leur immunocompétence. Une caractéristique assez étonnante du priming immunitaire est qu’il peut se manifester chez la descendance. Ce transfert trans-générationnel d’immunité (TTGI), ainsi que le priming immunitaire, doivent avoir évolués à la suite de challenges répétitifs par les mêmes agents pathogènes durant la vie des individus et au fil des générations. Ainsi, le priming et le TTGI doivent être plus efficaces et moins coûteux vis à vis des parasites exposant l’hôte à la plus grande probabilité de réinfection. De plus, il est maintenant prouvé que la réponse immunitaire chez les insectes est génétiquement variable. Pour comprendre l’évolution du TTGI et de son potentiel de réponse à la sélection, il convient d’étudier la composante génétique de sa variabilité. Au cours de cette thèse, j’ai associé l’expression du priming et du TTGI chez un insecte à un type de bactéries, qui a du agir comme la principale pression de sélection sur le système immunitaire de cette espèce hôte. Cela s’est fait via l’identification de différents coûts et bénéfices, qui ont également mis en exergue certains mécanismes possibles dans la réalisation de ces phénomènes immunitaires. Pour ce faire, j’ai utilisé comme organisme modèle le ténébrion meunier, Tenebrio molitor.Dans le premier chapitre, nous avons étudié la survie d’individus adultes de T. molitor face à une infection bactérienne, en fonction de leur propre expérience immunitaire ou de celle de leur mère. Nous avons constaté que le priming et le TTGI étaient plus efficaces et moins coûteux vis à vis des bactéries à Gram-positif. Cetté étude a également révélé que, contrairement à ce que de précédentes recherches suggérent, les hémocytes ne jouent pas nécessairement un rôle majeur dans le priming immunitaire et le TTGI.Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous avons stimulé le système immunitaire de femelles adultes de T. molitor avec deux bactéries Gram-positives. Nous avons mis en évidence que la protection transmise aux oeufs pouvait résulter d’un transfert maternel de peptides antibactérien, ou que ces peptides pouvaient être produits par l’œuf lui-même, en fonction de la bactérie utilisé pour stimuler la mère. Il s’avère que quel que soit le mécanisme, le TTGI améliore le taux d’éclosion des œufs et peut même s’accompagner d’un bénéfice en survie pour les jeunes larves.Dans le troisième chapitre, nous avons stimulé le système immunitaire de femelles de lignées consanguines afin de quantifier la variation génétique de l'investissement maternel à la protection des œufs et mesuré d’autres traits associés à la valeur sélective des mères et de la descendance. Malheureusement, du fait d’un nombre trop faible de lignées et d’individus utilisés au sein de nos lignées, il nous a été impossible de conclure quant à l’existence de bases génétiques associées au TTGI.Dans le quatrième chapitre, nous avons passé en revue l’ensemble des études concernant le TTGI. Cela nous a permis de mettre en exergue les principales caractéristiques et les mécanismes identifiés, en fonction de l’écologie et de l’évolution du phénomène.Les bénéfices et les coûts associés au priming ainsi qu’au TTGI suggèrent que les bactéries à Gram-positif ont été la principale pression de sélection ayant contraint l’évolution du système immunitaire de T. molitor. En ce qui concerne le TTGI, de plus amples recherches sont nécessaires afin de trancher quant à l’existence de bases génétiques associées au phénomène. / Many organisms can improve their immune response as a function of their immunological experience, a phenomenon called immune priming. While the mechanisms through which immune priming is achieved remain unknown, individuals that survived to a given parasite are better protected against subsequent exposures. This immune priming can cross generations (trans-generational immune priming – TGIP), preparing offspring for prevailing parasite environment. Both individual and trans-generational immune priming might be adaptive and may have evolved from repeated challenges by the same pathogens during the host lifetime or across generation. While protection could be cross-reactive, a certain level of specificity may exist in response to the range of pathogens from which immue priming may have evolved. Thus, immune priming and TGIP should be more efficient and less costly with respect to pathogens exposing the host to the greatest probability of re-infection. Moreover, it is now known that insect immune response is genetically variable. To understand the evolution of TGIP and its impact on life history evolution, we need to explore its quantitative genetics. During my thesis, I found that the expression of individual immune priming and TGIP in the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, is dependent of a range of pathogens that might have been a major selective pressure on the immune system of this insect species. This was done through the characterisation of costs and benefits of the expression of immune priming in response to challenges with a large range of bacterial pathogens. This work also highlighted potential mechanisms through which these immune phenomena could be achieved.In a first chapter of this thesis, we examined the survival of individuals to infection with different bacteria according to their own immunological experience or that of their mother with these bacteria. We found that priming response to Gram-positive bacteria was particularly more efficient and less costly than priming response to Gram-negative bacteria. This study also shows that, contrary to what is currently believed, the cellular component of the T. molitor immune system does not necessarly play a major role in providing immune protection through individual immune priming or TGIP.In a second chapter, we have stimulated the immune system of adult females with two Gram-positive bacteria to study maternal transfer of immunity to the eggs. We found that the process throght which eggs are protected is dependent on the bacterial pathogen used to immune challenge the mother. Indeed, depending of the bacterial pathogen that immune challenged the mother, antibacterial activity in the eggs are either transfeered by the mother or produced by the egg itself, Furthermore, whatever the mechanism through which egg protection was achieved, primed eggs exhibited enhanced hatching rate and the resulting larvae even showed improved early survival to food privation.In a third chapter, we used inbred lines of T. molitor to study the quantitative genetics of TGIP. The aim of this work was to test whether TGIP could be heritable and whether its expression is genetically associated to other fintness traits of mothers and offspring. Unfortunately, due to a low number of inbred lines available and a low number of samples within some of these lines, it was impossible to conclude about the genetic basis associated to TGIP.In a fourth chapter, we produced a review on TGIP. This allowed us to highlight the main characteristics and mechanisms curently identified, and the ecology and the evolution of the phenomenon.Costs and benefits associated to immune priming and TGIP suggest that Gram-positive bacteria might have been a major selective pressure at the origin of these phenomena in T. molitor. Whether TGIP has genetic basis still required further research.

Marine communities are affected by oceanographic processes, which influence ecological interactions, such as recruitment rates, that are essential regulators of community dynamics. These relationships are not constant; they change in space and time or among taxa. We defend the thesis that oceanographic processes of climatic origin influencing larval abundance at the study region, regulate and establish the trends in settlement and recruitment of invertebrates (cirripeds and bivalves) at rocky shore intertidal. We first investigated the recruitment at different temporal scales and its relationships with physical forcings, chlorophyll-a concentration and sea surface temperature. Second, we focused on the spatial synchrony and contrasts of recruitment, and interspecific trends. Third, we described and evaluated the co-variation between cold fronts and the larval abundance and settlement. We concluded that there is a high degree of correlation between recruitment/settlement and the variation of the wind field, which set temporal trends. Cold fronts are important regulators of settlement, but higher recruitment was associated to NE-E winds. Barnacle recruitment is more susceptible to the environmental variations compared to bivalves. Regional recruitment is not spatially synchronic with differences in the scale of 100 km. This study highlights the importance of oceanic-climatic phenomena as predictors of spatio-temporal trends of recruitment showing that climatic fluctuations might have contrasting effects on rocky shore communities. / As comunidades marinhas são afetadas por processos oceanográficos que influenciam as interações ecológicas, como as taxas de recrutamento, reguladores essenciais da dinâmica dessas comunidades. Essas relações não são constantes, elas mudam no espaço e no tempo, ou entre taxa. Aqui nós defendemos a tese que processos oceanográficos de origem climática, por influenciarem a abundância larval região de estudo, regulam e estabelecem tendências do assentamento e recrutamento de invertebrados (cirripedes e bivalves) do entremarés de costas rochosas. Primeiramente, nós investigamos o recrutamento em diferentes escalas de tempo e sua relação com forçantes físicas, concentração de clorofila-a e temperatura da superfície do mar. Em um segundo momento, nós focamos na sincronia e nos contrastes espaciais do recrutamento, e as tendências inter-específicas. Por fim, descrevemos e avaliamos a co-variância entre frentes frias, abundância larval e assentamento. Concluímos que há um alto grau de correlação entre recrutamento/ assentamento e a variação do campo de ventos, o qual estabelece as tendências temporais. As frentes frias são reguladores importantes do assentamento, mas o recrutamento mais alto está associado a ventos de NE-E. O recrutamento de cirripedes é mais susceptível às variações ambientais se comparado aos bivalves. O recrutamento regional não é sincrônico no espaço, com diferenças na escala de 100km. Este estudo destaca a importância dos fenômenos oceano-climáticos na previsão de tendências espaço-temporais do recrutamento, mostrando que flutuações climáticas podem ter efeitos contrastantes nas comunidades de costas rochosas.

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2018-08-21T13:55:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010 - Joaquim Neto de Sousa Santos.pdf: 1864983 bytes, checksum: e70ed9f5ee68c8f365819e496dbb0176 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T13:55:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010 - Joaquim Neto de Sousa Santos.pdf: 1864983 bytes, checksum: e70ed9f5ee68c8f365819e496dbb0176 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-21 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico, CNPq, Brasil. / Morphodynamism, extratification and seasonality are among the main factor to influence the composition and abundance of the macroinfauna in sandy beaches. The macroinfauna of two sandy beaches were sampled between winter-2005 and summer-2006 during low tide; one beach was protected (Flamengo beach) located in Guanabara bay, and the other was exposed to waves in the oceanic zone (Grumari beach). The hypothesis that the physical characteristics of the beaches determine the difference in composition and relative abundance of the macroinfauna was tested. Flamengo beach was characterized as dissipative and had comparatively higher t?xon richenes and lower biomass, when compared with Grumari beach that was classsified as reflective. In Flamengo beaches, higher abundance was recordded for Enoploides sp, and Emerita brasiliensis, whereas in Grumari beach Sacocirrus sp and E. brasiliensis were the most abundant taxons. The beaches showed highe dissimilarity in composition and relative abundance of the taxons (91.75%). Sacocirrus sp, Enoploides sp, Dispio uncinata, Scolelepis goodbobyi and E. brasiliensis explained 63.70% of the dissimilarity between the two beaches. In both beaches, we observed extratification in occurence and abundance of the macroinfauna in two seasons. Emerita brasiliensis occurred mainly in Grumary beach in the extrate 1 and Sacocirrus sp in extrate 2, while in Flamengo beach E. brasiliensis and Enoploides sp had the highest abundance in extrate 1 and S. goodbody and D. uncinata in extrate 3. The hypothesis that the macrofauna differs among extrate and beaches was accepted and the differences in composition and relative abundance of the macroinfauna were attributed to morphodynamism, althought other environmental factores can be influencing such differences. / O morfodinamismo, estratifica??o e a sazonalidade s?o os fatores mais importantes na determina??o da composi??o e abund?ncia da macroinfauna em praias arenosas. A macroinfauna de duas praias foi amostrada no inverno/2005 e ver?o/2006 durante a mar? baixa, sendo uma praia protegida (Flamengo) localizada na ba?a de Guanabara, e outra praia exposta localizada na zona oce?nica (Grumari). Foi testada a hip?tese que as caracter?sticas f?sicas das praias determinam diferen?as na composi??o e abund?ncia da macroinfauna. A praia do Flamengo foi caracterizada como dissipativa e apresentou maior riqueza de t?xons, e menor biomassa, quando comparada com a praia de Grumari classificada como refletiva. Na praia do Flamengo as maiores abund?ncias foram registradas para Enoploides sp, e Emerita brasiliensis, enquanto em Grumari foram Sacocirrus sp e E. brasiliensis. As praias apresentaram elevada dissimilaridade na composi??o e abund?ncia relativa dos t?xons (91.75%), Sacocirrus sp, Enoploides sp, Dispio uncinata, Scolelepis goodbobyi e E. brasiliensis explicaram 63.70% das diferen?as entre as praias. Em ambas as praias foram observadas estratifica??es na ocorr?ncia e abund?ncia da macroinfauna nas duas esta??es analisadas. Na praia de Grumari, E. brasiliensis ocorreu principalmente no estrato 1 e Sacocirrus sp no estrato 2, enquanto na praia do Flamengo E. brasiliensis e Enoploides sp apresentaram as maiores abund?ncias no estrato 1 e S. goodbodyi e D. uncinata no estrato 3. A hip?tese da varia??o na composi??o da macroinfauna entre os extratos foi aceita, e as diferen?as observadas na composi??o e abund?ncia da macroinfauna foram atribu?das ao morfodinamismo; no entanto, outros fatores ambientais podem estar relacionados com tais diferen?as.