Response of estuarine meiofauna assemblage to effects of fertilizer enrichment used in the sugar cane monoculture. Pernambuco, Brazil

Santos, Paulo J. P.; Botter-Carvalho, Mônica L.; Nascimento-Júnior, Ananias B. do; Marinho, Raquel G. C.; Carvalho, Paulo V. V. C.; Valença, Ana P. M. C.

Abstracts

In situ application of inorganic fertilizer was used to simulate environmental eutrophication associated with the sugar cane monoculture. Meiofauna community structure is herein used to assess this experimental impact. Nine quadrangular areas (4m² each) were randomly defined in the midlittoral estuarine area. Three of these areas received a high dose of sugar cane fertilizer (375 g/m² Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium), three areas received a low dose of the fertilizer (187.5 g/m²) and the other three areas represented the control. The fertilizer was applied every week. Environmental parameters and meiofauna were sampled using three-to-four week intervals. Six samplings were subsequently performed maintaining this interval. Meiofauna was counted and identified to major taxonomic groups. Meiofauna community structure varied throughout the experimental areas. Control areas maintained their abundance values during the study period, but within the enriched areas meiofauna abundance decreased greatly. MDS and ANOSIM analysis showed significant variation in the meiofauna community structure among experimental areas and also along the experimental period in the enriched areas.

Estuarine Meiobenthos; Eutrophication, Sugar cane; In situ experiment

A aplicação in situ de fertilizantes inorgânicos foi utilizada para simular a eutrofização associada ao cultivo da cana-de-açúcar. A estrutura da associação de meiofauna foi analisada com o objetivo de avaliar este impacto. O experimento de enriquecimento do sedimento foi desenvolvido em nove áreas quadrangulares de 4m² distribuídas de forma aleatória no mediolitoral da área estuarina. Três áreas foram enriquecidas com alta concentração (375 g/m²) de NPK (Nitrogênio-Fósforo-Potássio), três com baixa concentração (187,5 g/m²) e as demais tratadas como controle. Os fertilizantes foram aplicados semanalmente. Os parâmetros físico-químicos do sedimento e a meiofauna bentônica foram coletados após três a quatro semanas da aplicação dos fertilizantes. Obedecendo este intervalo foram realizadas 6 amostragens subseqüentes. As amostras foram triadas e a meiofauna contada e identificada em nível de grande grupo. As respostas da meiofauna variaram de acordo com a área: enquanto a área Controle manteve sua abundância total durante todo o experimento, as áreas tratadas apresentaram forte queda nas densidades totais. A ordenação MDS e a análise ANOSIM evidenciaram mudanças significativas na estrutura da associação de meiofauna entre as áreas e também ao longo do experimento nas áreas tratadas.

Meiobentos estuarino; Eutrofização, Cana-de-açúcar; Experimento in situ

ANDERSEN, J. H.; SCHLÜTER, L.; AERTEBJERG, G. Coastal eutrophication: recent developments in definitions and implications for monitoring strategies. J. Plankt. Res., v. 28, n. 7, p 117-143, 2006.
AZOVSKY, A. .; CHERTOPROOD, E. S.; SABUROVA M. A.; POLIKARPOV, I. G. Spatio-temporal variability of micro- and meiobenthic communities in a White Sea intertidal sandflat.Estuar. coast. Shelf Sci.,v. 60, p. 663-671, 2004.
BOLAM, S. G.; FERNANDES, T. .; READ, P.; RAFFAELLI, D. Effects of macroalgal mats on intertidal sandflats: an experimental study.J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 249, p. 123-137, 2000.
BOTTER-CARVALHO, M. L.Resposta da macrofauna bêntica estuarina a distúrbios: experimentos de eutrofização e recolonização no canal de Santa Cruz - PE.2007. 198pp. Tese (doutorado em oceanografia) - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2007.
BUFFAN-DUBAU, E.; WIT, R.; CASTEL, J. Feeding selectivity of the harpacticoid copepod Canuella perplexa in benthic muddy environments demonstrated by HPLC analyses of chlorin and carotenoid pigments.Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.,v. 137, p. 71-82, 1996.
CLARKE, K. R. Non-parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure. Aust. J. Ecol., v. 18, p. 117-143. 1993.
CLARKE, K. R.; AINSWORTH, M. A method of linking multivariate community structure to environmental variables.Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., v. 92, p. 205-219, 1993.
CLARKE, K. R.; WARWICK, R. M.Changes in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation.Plymouth: NERC, 1994. 187 p.
COLIJN, F.; DIJKEMA, K. S. Species composition of benthic diatoms and distribution of chlorophyll-a on an intertidal flat in Dutch Waaden Sea. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 303, p. 157-171, 1981.
COULL, B. C.; CHANDLER G. T. Pollution and meiofauna - field, laboratory, and mesocosm studies.Oceanogr. mar. Biol.,v. 30, p. 191-271, 1992.
COULL, B. C. Role of meiofauna in estuarine soft-bottom habitats.Austr. J. Ecol., v. 24, p. 327-343, 1999.
CPRH (Agência Estadual de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos). Diagnóstico sócio-ambiental do litoral norte Recife, PE, 2001. 254 p.
DAHMS, H. U.; HARDER, T.; QIAN, P. Y. Selective attraction and reproductive performance of a harpacticoid copepod in a response to biofilms. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol., v. 341, p. 228-238, 2007.
DALTO, A. G.; GRÉMARE, A.; DINET, A.; FICHET, D. Muddy-bottom meiofauna responses to metal concentrations and organic enrichment in New Caledonia South-West Lagoon. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., v. 67, p. 629-644, 2006.
DE JESUS NAVARRETE, A.; HERRERA-GOMEZ, J. Vertical distribution and feeding types of nematodes from Chetumal Bay, Quintana Roo, Mexico.Estuaries, v. 25, p. 1131- 1137, 2002.
DE TROCH, M.; STEINARSDÓTTIR, M. B.; CHEPURNOV, V.; ÓLAFSSON, E. Grazing on diatoms by harpacticoid copepods: species-specific density-dependent uptake andmicrobial gardening. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., v. 39, p. 135-144, 2005.
DENISSON, W. C.; O´NEIL, J. M.; DUFFY, E.J.; OLIVER, P.E.; SHAW, G. . Blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula in coastal waters of Queensland, Australia. Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco., v. 19, p. 501-506, 1999.
EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária). Manual de Métodos de Análise de Solo 2 ed. Rio de Janeiro, 1997. 212 p.
FRASCHETTI, S.; GAMBI, C.; GIANGRANDE, A.; MUSCO, L.; TERLIZZI, A. ; DANOVARO, R. Structural and functional response of meiofauna rocky assemblages to Sewage pollution. Mar. Pollut. Bull.,v. 52, p. 540-548, 2006.
GARCIA, R.; JOHNSTONE, R. W. Effects of Lyngbya majuscula (Cyanophycea) blooms on sediment nutrients and meiofaunal assemblages in seagrass beds in Moreton Bay, Austrália. Mar. Freshw. Res., v. 57, p. 155-165, 2006.
GEE, J. M.; WARWICK, R. M.; SCHAANNING, M.; BERGE J. A.; AMBROSE, W. G. R. Effects of organic enrichment on meiofaunal abundance and community structure in sublittoral soft sediments. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 91, n. 3, p. 247-262, 1985.
GIERE, O. Meiobenthology: the microscopic fauna in aquatic sediments. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993. 328 p.
GRAY, J.S. Eutrophication in the sea In: COLUMBO, G.; FERRARI, I.; CECCHERELLI, V. U.; ROSSI, R. (Ed.) Marine eutrophication and population dynamics. Fredensborg: Olsen & Olsen, 1992, p 3-15.
GRAY, J. S.; WU, R. S. S. ; OR, Y.Y. Effects of hypoxia and organic enrichment on the coastal marine environment. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., v. 238, p. 249-279, 2002.
GUNKEL, G.; KOSMOL, J.; SOBRAL, M.; ROHN, H.; MONTENEGRO, S.; AURELIANO, J. Sugar cane industry as a source of water pollution - Case study on the situation in Ipojuca River, Pernambuco, Brazil. Water Air Soil Pollut., v. 180, p. 261-269, 2006.
HEIP, C. Eutrophication and zoobenthos dynamics. Ophelia, 1995, v. 41, p. 113- 136.
HEIP, C.; VINCX, M.; SMOL, N.; VRANKEN, G. The systematic and ecology of free-living marine nematodes. Helmintholog. Abstracts, v. 51, p. 1-24, 1982.
HICKS, G. R. F.; COULL, B. C. The ecology of marine meiobenthic harpacticoid copepods. Oceanogr. mar. Biol. a. Rev., v. 21, p. 67-175, 1983.
HIGGINS, R.P. & THIEL, H. Introduction to the study of Meiofauna. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1988. 388 p.
HUA, E.; ZHANG, ZN. ; ZHANG, Y. Meiofauna distributions at the oxygen minimum zone in Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary Waters. Acta Oceanol. Sin., v. 25, p. 120-134, 2006.
JANOUSEK, C.N.; CURRIN, C.A. & LEVIN, L.A. Succession of Microphytobenthos in a Restored Coastal Wetland. Estuar. Coasts, v. 30, n. 2, p. 265-276, 2007.
KENNEDY, A.D. & JACOBY, C.A. Biological indicators of marine environmental health: Meiofauna - A neglected Benthic Component? Environ. Monit. Assessement,v. 54, n. 1, p. 47-68, 1999.
LA ROSA, T.; MIRTO, S.; MAZZOLA, A.; DANOVARO, R. Differential responses of benthic microbes and meiofauna to fish-farm disturbance in coastal sediments.Environ. Pollut.,v. 112, p. 427-432, 2001.
LACERDA, L. D.; MOLISANI, M. M.; SENA, D.; MAIA, L. P. Estimating the importance of natural and anthropogenic sources on N and P emission to estuaries along the Ceará State Coast NE Brazil.Environ. Monit. Assessement.,v. 141, p. 149-164, 2008.
LAMPADARIOU N.; KARAKASSIS, I.; TERASCHKE S.; ARLT G. Changes in benthic meiofaunal assemblages in the vicinity of fish farms in the Eastern Mediterranean. Vie Milieu, v. 55, n. 2, p. 61-69, 2005.
LORENZEN, C. J. Determination of chlorophyll and phaeopigments: Spectrophotometric Equations. Limnol. Ocean., v. 12, p. 343-346, 1967.
MARE, M. F. A study of marine benthic community with special reference to the micro-organisms. J. mar. Biol. Assoc., U. K, v. 25, p. 517-554, 1942.
MOODLEY, L.; HEIP, C. H. R.; MIDDELBURG, J. J.; Benthic activity in sediments of the northwestern Adriatic Sea: sediment oxygen consumption, macro- and meiofauna dynamics. J. Sea Res., v. 40, p. 263-280, 1998.
NILSSON, P.; JONSSON, B.; SWANBERG, I. L., SUNDBACK, K. Response of a marine shallow-water sediment system to an increased load of inorganic nutrients. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., v. 71, p. 275-290, 1991.
POSEY, M.; POWELL, C.; CAHOON, L. ; LINDQUIST, D. Top down vs. bottom up control of benthic community composition on an tidal flat.J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 185, p. 19-31, 1995.
SANDULLI, R.; NICOLA-GIUDICI, M. Pollution effects on the structure of meiofaunal communities in the Bay of Naples. Mar. Pollut. Bull., v. 20, n. 5, p. 223-227, 1990.
SANDULLI, R.; PINCKNEY, J. Patch sizes and spatial patterns of meiobenthic copepods and benthic microalgae in sandy sediments: a microscale approach. J. Sea Res., v. 41, p. 179-187, 1999.
SANTOS P. J. P.; CASTEL, J.; SOUZA-SANTOS, L.P. Microphytobenthic patches and their influence on meiofaunal distribution. Cah. Biol. Mar., v. 36, p. 133-139, 1995.
SCHRATZBERGER, M.; GEE, J. M.; REES, H. L.; BOYD, S. E.; WALL, C. M.. The structure and taxonomic composition of sublittoral meiofauna assemblages as an indicator of the status of marine environments.J.mar. Biol. Assoc.,U.K., v. 80, p. 969-980, 2000.
SILVA, T.A.; NEUMANN-LEITÃO, S.; SCHWAMBORN, R.; GUSMÃO, L.M.O.; NASCIMENTO-VIEIRA, D.A. Diel and seasonal changes in the macrozooplankton community of a tropical estuary in Northeastern Brazil. Rev. Bras. Zool., v. 20, n. 3, p. 439-446, 2003.
SOUZA-SANTOS L. P.; SANTOS P. J. P.; CASTEL, J. Development and population dynamics of Amonardia normani Brady reared on axenic and non-axenic diatoms.J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 235, p. 167-182, 1999.
STEYAERT, M.; GARNER, N.; GANSBEKE, D. & VINCX, M. Nematode communities from North Sea: environmental controls on species diversity and vertical distribution within the sediment.J. mar. Biol. Assoc., U. K., v. 76, p. 253-264, 1999.
SUTHERLAND, T. F.; LEVINGS C. D.; PETERSEN P. ; PIERCEY, B. The use of meiofauna as indicators of benthic organic enrichment associated with salmonid aquaculture. Mar. Pollut. Bull., v. 54, p. 1249-1261, 2007.
TEIWES, M.; BERGTOLD, M. & TRAUNSPURGER, W. Factors influencing the vertical distribution of nematodes in sediments. J. Freshw. Ecol., v. 22, p. 429- 439, 2007.
WATKINSON, A. J.; O'NEIL, J. M. ; DENNISONA, W.C. Ecophysiology of the marine cyanobacterium, Lyngbya majuscule (Oscillatoriaceae) in Moreton Bay, Australia. Harmf. Algae, v. 4, p. 697-715, 2005.
WETZEL, R. G.; LIKENS, G .E. Limnological analyses. 2. ed. New York: Springer Verlag, 1990. 338 p.
WICKMANS, M.; CHEPURNOV, V.A.; VANREUSEL, A. ; TROCH, M. Effects of food diversity on diatom selection by harpacticoid copepods. J. exp.Mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 345, p. 119-128, 2007.
WIDBOM, B.; ELMGREN, R. Response of benthic meiofauna to nutrient enrichment of experimental marine ecosystems.Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., v. 42, p. 257-268,1988.

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[2] AZOVSKY, A. .; CHERTOPROOD, E. S.; SABUROVA M. A.; POLIKARPOV, I. G. Spatio-temporal variability of micro- and meiobenthic communities in a White Sea intertidal sandflat.Estuar. coast. Shelf Sci.,v. 60, p. 663-671, 2004.

[3] BOLAM, S. G.; FERNANDES, T. .; READ, P.; RAFFAELLI, D. Effects of macroalgal mats on intertidal sandflats: an experimental study.J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 249, p. 123-137, 2000.

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[13] DAHMS, H. U.; HARDER, T.; QIAN, P. Y. Selective attraction and reproductive performance of a harpacticoid copepod in a response to biofilms. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol., v. 341, p. 228-238, 2007.

[14] DALTO, A. G.; GRÉMARE, A.; DINET, A.; FICHET, D. Muddy-bottom meiofauna responses to metal concentrations and organic enrichment in New Caledonia South-West Lagoon. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., v. 67, p. 629-644, 2006.

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[19] FRASCHETTI, S.; GAMBI, C.; GIANGRANDE, A.; MUSCO, L.; TERLIZZI, A. ; DANOVARO, R. Structural and functional response of meiofauna rocky assemblages to Sewage pollution. Mar. Pollut. Bull.,v. 52, p. 540-548, 2006.

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[27] HEIP, C.; VINCX, M.; SMOL, N.; VRANKEN, G. The systematic and ecology of free-living marine nematodes. Helmintholog. Abstracts, v. 51, p. 1-24, 1982.

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[35] LAMPADARIOU N.; KARAKASSIS, I.; TERASCHKE S.; ARLT G. Changes in benthic meiofaunal assemblages in the vicinity of fish farms in the Eastern Mediterranean. Vie Milieu, v. 55, n. 2, p. 61-69, 2005.

[36] LORENZEN, C. J. Determination of chlorophyll and phaeopigments: Spectrophotometric Equations. Limnol. Ocean., v. 12, p. 343-346, 1967.

[37] MARE, M. F. A study of marine benthic community with special reference to the micro-organisms. J. mar. Biol. Assoc., U. K, v. 25, p. 517-554, 1942.

[38] MOODLEY, L.; HEIP, C. H. R.; MIDDELBURG, J. J.; Benthic activity in sediments of the northwestern Adriatic Sea: sediment oxygen consumption, macro- and meiofauna dynamics. J. Sea Res., v. 40, p. 263-280, 1998.

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[42] SANDULLI, R.; PINCKNEY, J. Patch sizes and spatial patterns of meiobenthic copepods and benthic microalgae in sandy sediments: a microscale approach. J. Sea Res., v. 41, p. 179-187, 1999.

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[46] SOUZA-SANTOS L. P.; SANTOS P. J. P.; CASTEL, J. Development and population dynamics of Amonardia normani Brady reared on axenic and non-axenic diatoms.J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 235, p. 167-182, 1999.

[47] STEYAERT, M.; GARNER, N.; GANSBEKE, D. & VINCX, M. Nematode communities from North Sea: environmental controls on species diversity and vertical distribution within the sediment.J. mar. Biol. Assoc., U. K., v. 76, p. 253-264, 1999.

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[49] TEIWES, M.; BERGTOLD, M. & TRAUNSPURGER, W. Factors influencing the vertical distribution of nematodes in sediments. J. Freshw. Ecol., v. 22, p. 429- 439, 2007.

[50] WATKINSON, A. J.; O'NEIL, J. M. ; DENNISONA, W.C. Ecophysiology of the marine cyanobacterium, Lyngbya majuscule (Oscillatoriaceae) in Moreton Bay, Australia. Harmf. Algae, v. 4, p. 697-715, 2005.

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[52] WICKMANS, M.; CHEPURNOV, V.A.; VANREUSEL, A. ; TROCH, M. Effects of food diversity on diatom selection by harpacticoid copepods. J. exp.Mar. Biol. Ecol.,v. 345, p. 119-128, 2007.

[53] WIDBOM, B.; ELMGREN, R. Response of benthic meiofauna to nutrient enrichment of experimental marine ecosystems.Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., v. 42, p. 257-268,1988.

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