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Effects of a fish weir on the structure of the macrobenthic community of a tropical sandy beach on the Amazon coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2020

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Thuareag Monteiro Trindade dos Santos*
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Laboratório de Pesquisa em Monitoramento Ambiental Marinho, Grupo de Estudos de Nematoda Aquáticos, Universidade Federal do Pará. Av. Augusto Corrêa s/n, Guamá, Belém, Pará, Brazil Laboratório de Pesquisa em Monitoramento Ambiental Marinho (LAPMAR), Laboratório de Oceanografia Biológica (LOB), Faculdade de Oceanografia, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 1, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Daiane Aviz
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Pesquisa em Monitoramento Ambiental Marinho (LAPMAR), Laboratório de Oceanografia Biológica (LOB), Faculdade de Oceanografia, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Rua Augusto Corrêa, 1, Belém, Pará, Brazil Laboratório de Invertebrados Aquáticos, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Campus de Pesquisa, Av. Perimetral, 1901/1907, Terra Firme, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Thuareag M. T. Santos, E-mail: thuareag@gmail.com
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Abstract

The present study investigated the effects of a fish weir, a fixed trap used by artisanal fisheries, on the intertidal macrobenthic infauna of a macrotidal sandy beach on the Amazon coast. Biological and sediment samples were collected from within the weir and at five points of increasing distance (10 cm, 50 cm, 1 m, 2 m, 5 m and 50 m) from the external portion of the trap. The sediments from the weir and at 10 cm were dominated by mud, with a gradual decline in fine grains, water content and organic matter with increasing distance from the weir to 50 m (control). Taxon abundance and richness were significantly higher in the weir and at 10 cm than at the other sampling points. There was a trend of decreasing density and richness of the infauna from the weir to 1 m (which was a point of transition between the muddy and sandy sediments), after which the biological descriptors tended to increase once again. A shift was also observed in the dominant trophic groups, with a decrease in the abundance of the deposit feeders with increasing distance from the weir. By contrast, predators were more abundant at the points further from the weir. Our results indicate that fish weirs alter the associated sedimentary habitats, due to the increased protection from the action of waves and currents, with a micro-scale (from a few centimetres to 1–2 m) influence on the local macrofauna.

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Anthropogenic impactartisanal fisheriesbenthosman-made structures

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , March 2020 , pp. 211 - 219
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