Response of a soft-bottom harpacticoid community to stingray (Dasyatis sabina) disturbance

✍ Scribed by J. A. Reidenauer; D. Thistle

• Book ID: 104756029
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 577 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00397120

✦ Synopsis

The recolonization by harpacticoid copepods of patches disturbed by stingrays [Dasyatis sabina (LeSeur)] feeding in a subtidal (2-3 m depth) site off the Florida gulf coast (Lat. 29~ Long. 84~ was followed. Samples from disturbed patches could no longer be distinguished from control samples in terms of numbers of harpacticoids 29 h after disturbance. No species became significantly disproportionately abundant during the recovery suggesting that small-scale natural disturbances are not an important organizing force in this community.