Marine pollution
; Human impact
; Invertebrate assemblages
; Rocky intertidal
; Spatio-temporal scale
; Variance components
; Contamination
; anthropogenic effect
; archipelago
; environmental management
; future prospect
; invasive species
; rocky shore
; shoreline change
; spatiotemporal analysis
; urbanization
; alga
; canopy
; facilitation
; human
; human impact (environment)
; insula
; invasive species
; invertebrate
; nonhuman
; Portugal
; response variable
; seashore
; urban area
; urbanization
; variance
; animal
; Azores
; chemistry
; ecosystem
; environmental monitoring
; green alga
; growth, development and aging
; invertebrate
; Portugal
; procedures
; sediment
; Azores
; Portugal
; Portugal
; algae
; Invertebrata
; sea water
; Animals
; Azores
; Chlorophyta
; Ecosystem
; Environmental Monitoring
; Geologic Sediments
; Invertebrates
; Portugal
; Seawater
; Urbanization
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Differences in the structure and functioning of intensively urbanized vs. less human-affected systems are reported, but such evidence is available for a much larger extent in terrestrial than in marine systems. We examined the hypotheses that (i) urbanization was associated to different patterns of variation of intertidal assemblages between urban and extra-urban environments; (ii) such patterns were consistent across mainland and insular systems, spatial scales from 10s�cm to 100s�km, and a three months period. Several trends emerged: (i) a more homogeneous distribution of most algal groups in the urban compared to the extra-urban condition and the opposite pattern of most invertebrates; (ii) smaller/larger variances of most organisms where these were, respectively, less/more abundant; (iii) largest variability of most response variables at small scale; (iv) no facilitation of invasive species by urbanization and larger cover of canopy-forming algae in the insular extra-urban condition. Present findings confirm the acknowledged notion that future management strategies will require to include representative assemblages and their relevant scales of variation associated to urbanization gradients on both the mainland and the islands. � 2016 Elsevier Ltd
CIIMAR/CIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investiga��o Marinha e Ambiental, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leix�es, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples, Italy; cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group - Universidade dos A�ores, Rua da M�e de Deus 13A, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; MARE, Marine and Environmental Science Centre, Laborat�rio de Ci�ncias do Mar, Universidade de �vora, Avenida Vasco da Gama, Apartado 190, Sines, Portugal; CMMG-Centro do Clima, Meteorologia e Mudan�as Globais da Universidade dos A�ores, P�lo Universit�rio de Angra do Hero�smo, Angra do Hero�smo, Azores, Portugal
Recommended Citation:
Bertocci I.,Arenas F.,Cacabelos E.,et al. Nowhere safe? Exploring the influence of urbanization across mainland and insular seashores in continental Portugal and the Azorean Archipelago[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,114(2)