Supporting ecosystem services of habitat and biodiversity in temperate seaweed (Saccharina spp.) farms.

Autor: Schutt E; School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME, 04005, USA., Francolini R; Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay, ME, 04544, USA; School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Darling Marine Center, 193 Clarks Cove Road, Walpole, ME, 04573, USA., Price N; Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay, ME, 04544, USA., Olson Z; School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME, 04005, USA., Byron CJ; School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME, 04005, USA. Electronic address: cbyron@une.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Marine environmental research [Mar Environ Res] 2023 Oct; Vol. 191, pp. 106162. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106162
Abstrakt: Habitat provisioning, and the biodiversity within, is considered a type of "supporting" ecosystem service. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans receive from healthy ecosystems. We assess whether kelp (Saccharina spp.) farms provide seasonal habitat for wild organisms. Contrary to other studies conducted in tropic seaweed farms, we did not observe habitat provisioning or increased biodiversity at seasonal temperate seaweed farm sites compared to neighboring non-farm sites, which is encouraging news for the aquaculture industry given that most farm gear is removed from the water after the spring harvest. We quantified fish and crustaceans interacting with kelp farms using GoPro cameras. We also assessed small (<5 mm) invertebrates using mesh settling devices suspended at the same depth as kelp lines (2m). Visual surveys were paired with eDNA. There was coherence in the conclusions drawn from observational and eDNA methods, despite weak coherence in the specific species identified between the methods. Both farm and non-farm sites exhibited higher species richness and biodiversity in the summer non-growing season compared to the winter growing season, attributed to expected seasonal species movements.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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