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Título: | Water Flow, Trophic Depletion, and Benthic Macrofauna Impoverishment in a Submarine Cave from the Western Mediterranean |
Autor: | Zabala, Mikel; Riera, Tecla; Gili, Josep Maria CSIC ORCID ; Barangé, Manuel; Lobo, Agustín CSIC ORCID ; Peñuelas, Josep CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | sep-1989 | Editor: | John Wiley & Sons | Citación: | Marine Ecology 10(3): 271-287 (1989) | Resumen: | Biotic zonation and severe impoverishment of benthic macrofauna are two of the most conspicuous features of submarine caves. The prevailing explanation assumes trophic depletion caused by reduction of water flow. However, no isolation of water was found in the studied Catalan submarine cave, even in the wall microlayer. Fluorescein diffusion was so fast that it was detectable everywhere in the cave already only a few minutes after the injection. The rate of dissolution of plaster spheres was even greater in the cave than in a nearby tunnel – without benthic macrofauna impoverishment – showing a considerable water flow. The oxygen concentration of water in dialysis bags placed at varying distances from the cave walls showed that no wall microlayer gradients were present. Biochemical gradients did not indicate any decrease in food supply. Although photosynthetic pigment concentration generally decreased inside the cave, and although the gradients were not linear but formed different patterns throughout the cave, the BOD, the POM, the C:N ratio, the [H]‐thymidine incorporation rate, and the ETS activity were higher in the inner part of the cave. There was an accumulation of detritic material and bacteria in the inner parts that constitute a plausible food supply for benthic macrofauna. If neither water motion nor food supply can be invoked, research into the causes of zonation and disappearence of benthic macrofauna is proposed to be carried out on biotic interactions and behavioural processes. Copyright © 1989, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved | Descripción: | 17 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1989.tb00478.x | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/266945 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1989.tb00478.x | Identificadores: | issn: 0173-9565 e-issn: 1439-0485 |
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