Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Exotic species dominate marinas between the two most populated regions in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

FT Oricchio, AC Marques, E Hajdu, FB Pitombo… - Marine Pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
Human occupation of coastal areas promotes the establishment of non-native species but
information on bioinvasions is usually biased toward the Northern Hemisphere. We …

Colonial ascidians strongly preyed upon, yet dominate the substrate in a subtropical fouling community

LS Hiebert, EA Vieira, GM Dias… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Higher diversity and dominance at lower latitudes has been suggested for colonial species.
We verified this pattern in species richness of ascidians, finding that higher colonial-to …

Invasive coral Tubastraea spp. population growth in artificial habitats and its consequences to the diversity of benthic organisms

RM Tanasovici, MV Kitahara, GM Dias - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Marinas create physical and biotic conditions distinct from those in natural habitats which
can facilitate the establishment of non-indigenous species (NIS) in coastal ecosystems …

Promoting restoration of fish communities using artificial habitats in coastal marinas

M Selfati, N El Ouamari, P Lenfant, A Fontcuberta… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has become an area of crucial concern in conservation, owing to urban
infrastructure impacts on natural ecosystems. Urban infrastructures are often poor …

Seeding artificial habitats with native benthic species can prevent the occurrence of exotic organisms

NS Ohayashi, ID Rodrigues, OC Marchetti… - Marine Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seeding native species on pillars and platforms of marinas and harbors has been suggested
to reduce space availability and prevent the colonization of exotic nuisance species, which …

Early evidence of a shift in juvenile fish communities in response to conditions in nursery areas

S Matić-Skoko, D Vrdoljak, H Uvanović, M Pavičić… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
A multivariate analysis of juvenile fish community data, sampled at two nursery sites at an
interval of 17 years (2000—early, and 2017—late), was conducted to elucidate the trends of …

Succession of marine fouling community influences the associated mobile fauna via physical complexity increment

VS Vicente, AP Ferreira, PA Peres… - Marine and …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Sessile communities provide habitat for feeding, reproduction and protection to a diverse
mobile fauna. Along succession, the growth and overgrowth of three-dimensional sessile …

Does the incorporation of shell waste from aquaculture in the construction of marine facilities affect the structure of the marine sessile community?

T da Costa Queiroz, LQ Yokoyama, GM Dias - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The growth of the human population causes significant harm to ecosystems, directly
affecting the biological diversity of coastal areas by replacing natural habitats with artificial …

Enduring regardless the conditions: Plasticity in modular growth as a strategy to cope with hydrodynamic variation by the invasive sun-coral (Tubastraea spp.)

RM Tanasovici, GM Dias, MV Kitahara… - Marine Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The susceptibility of a community to invasions is not the only factor influencing the success
of the introduction of non-indigenous species (NIS). Because the conditions of the invaded …