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Interactions between free-living nematodes and benthic diatoms: insights from the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea)
Franzo, A.; Guilini, K.; Cibic, T.; Del Negro, P. (2018). Interactions between free-living nematodes and benthic diatoms: insights from the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea). Mediterr. Mar. Sci. 19(3): 538-554. https://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.15549
In: Mediterranean Marine Science. National Centre for Marine Research: Athina. ISSN 1108-393X; e-ISSN 1791-6763
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Keywords
    Bacillariophyceae [WoRMS]; Chromadoridae Filipjev, 1917 [WoRMS]; Nematoda [WoRMS]; Ptycholaimellus Cobb, 1920 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Free-living nematodes; benthic diatoms; Chromadoridae; Ptycholaimellus;benthic ecosystem functioning; northern Adriatic Sea

Authors  Top | Dataset 
  • Franzo, A.
  • Guilini, K., more
  • Cibic, T.
  • Del Negro, P.

Abstract
    From July 2010 to July 2012, free-living nematodes were investigated in terms of abundance, genera and trophic composition at the long term St. C1 (depth 18 m), located in the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea). The integration of these results with environmental (e.g. sediment grain-size, Biopolymeric C and Chl a) and biological variables (benthic diatom biomass and composition) collected synoptically with nematodes, allowed to clarify the linkage between these organisms and another ecosystem component, i.e. benthic diatoms. The observed peaks of nematode abundance in summer samplings were ascribable almost exclusively to piercing nematodes that feed on microalgae (Chromadoridae and, among them, Ptycholaimellus) and were concomitant with the highest numbers of benthic diatoms. DISTLM outputs further corroborated this interaction by indicating Chl a, i.e. a proxy of benthic diatoms, as the only environmental variable that significantly shaped nematode assemblage over the 2-year period. This linkage was not explained only quantitatively (i.e. more diatoms supported more nematodes) but also qualitatively. During winter, in fact, the presence of heavily silicified diatoms co-occurred with nematode minima and the lowest percentage of piercing organisms, suggesting an overall minor ability of the assemblage in using this feeding strategy. In a benthic ecosystem functioning point of view, the observed seasonal pattern of variation in both nematodes and benthic diatoms suggests that more of the energy flowing to nematodes during the summer derives directly from benthic diatom primary production while in the winter this linkage is less important.


Dataset
  • Free-living nematodes of the C1-LTER station (Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea), 2010-2012

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