Assessment of determinating process in associated diversity and formation of rhodolith beds in different spatial scales

• Grant number: 16/14017-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Guilherme Henrique Pereira Filho
• Grantee: Guilherme Henrique Pereira Filho
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Santos
• Associated researchers: Fabio dos Santos Motta ; Fernando Zaniolo Gibran ; Marcelo Visentini Kitahara

Abstract

Rhodoliths are free living nodules formed by coralline crustose algae that constitute unique habitats. These nodules promote the formation of multidimensional micro-habitats which can support a highly diverse community including macroalgae, invertebrates and other organisms. In addition to initiatives to commercially exploit CaCO3 from rhodolith beds, these diverse ecosystems within the Brazilian economic exclusive zone (ZEE) are often potential sites for oil and gas extraction. Applying, the precautionary principle, the IBAMA (Environmental Agency of the Brazilian government) has denied requests for drilling activities where rhodolith beds occur. Understanding of the main organisms associated with rhodoliths and how this benthic community is dependent on the physical structure of the nodules are important scientific questions in understanding and conserving Brazilian marine biodiversity. Here, we will determine physical parameters of the rhodoliths that can be used as predictors of the associated community, and which can be used in classification of these habitats. Futhermore, other important questions concerning rhodolith beds formation from fragments of dead corals. We will study the case of the recently rhodolith beds mapped by the researches involved in this proposal. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.; SHINTATE, GUSTAVO S. I.; KITAHARA, MARCELO V.; MOURA, RODRIGO L.; AMADO-FILHO, GILBERTO M.; BAHIA, RICARDO G.; MORAES, FERNANDO C.; NEVES, LEONARDO MITRANO; FRANCINI, CARLO LEOPOLDO B.; GIBRAN, FERNANDO Z.; et al. The southernmost Atlantic coral reef is off the subtropical island of Queimada Grande (24 degrees S), Brazil. BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, v. 95, n. 2, p. 277-287, APR 2019. (16/14017-0)

PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.; MENDES, VINICIUS R.; PERRY, CHRIS T.; SHINTATE, I, GUSTAVO; NIZ, WILLIANS C.; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE O.; BASTOS, ALEX C.; GIANNINI, PAULO CESAR F.; MOTTA, FABIO S.; MILLO, CHRISTIAN; et al. Growing at the limit: Reef growth sensitivity to climate and oceanographic changes in the South Western Atlantic. GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE, v. 201, JUN 2021. (16/14017-0)

VOERMAN, SOFIE E.; MARSH, BEAUREGARD C.; BAHIA, RICARDO G.; PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.; YEE, THOMAS W.; BECKER, ANA CLARA F.; AMADO-FILHO, GILBERTO M.; RUSECKAS, ARVYDAS; TURNBULL, GRAHAM A.; SAMUEL, IFOR D. W.; et al. cosystem engineer morphological traits and taxon identity shape biodiversity across the euphotic-mesophotic transitio. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, v. 289, n. 1969, FEB 23 2022. (16/14017-0)

ANDRÉ R. SENNA; LUIZ F. ANDRADE; URSSULA N. GUEDES; GUILHERME H. PEREIRA-FILHO. Redescrição e novos registros de Synopia ultramarina Dana (Amphipoda: Synopiidae) do nordeste do Brasil, com comentários sobre suas variações morfológicas. IHERINGIA SERIE ZOOLOGIA, v. 110, 2020-07-24. (16/14017-0)

MOTTA, FABIO S.; FREITAS, MATHEUS O.; ROLIM, FERNANDA A.; ABILHOA, VINICIUS; PEREIRA FILHO, GUILHERME H.. Direct evidence of a spawning aggregation of cubera snapper (Lutjanus cyanopterus) in southeastern Brazil and its management implications. Fisheries Research, v. 252, p. 9-pg., 2022-08-01. (19/19423-5, 16/14017-0)

SENNA, ANDRE R.; GUEDES, URSSULA N.; ANDRADE, LUIZ F.; PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.. A New Species of Amphipod Pariphinotus Kunkel, 1910 (Amphipoda: Phliantidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic. ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES, v. 60, OCT 12 2021. (16/14017-0)

RANDI, CAROLINE B.; BECKER, ANA CLARA; WILLEMES, MARIA JULIA; PERRY, CHRIS T.; SALGADO, LEONARDO TAVARES; DE CARVALHO, RODRIGO TOMAZETTO; MOTTA, FABIO S.; DE MOURA, RODRIGO LEAO; DE MORAES, FERNANDO COREIXAS; PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.. Calcium carbonate production in the southernmost subtropical Atlantic coral reef. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, v. 172, DEC 2021. (16/14017-0)

VERAS, PRISCILA DE CERQUEIRA; PIEROZZI-, JR., IVAN; LINO, JAQUELINE BARRETO; AMADO-FILHO, GILBERTO MENEZES; DE SENNA, ANDRE RESENDE; GOMES SANTOS, CINTHYA SIMONE; DE MOURA, RODRIGO LEAO; PASSOS, FLAVIO DIAS; GIGLIO, VINICIUS JOSE; PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME HENRIQUE. Drivers of biodiversity associated with rhodolith beds from euphotic and mesophotic zones: Insights for management and conservation. PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 18, n. 1, p. 37-43, JAN-MAR 2020. (17/22273-0, 16/14017-0)

VOERMAN, SOFIE E.; MARSH, BEAUREGARD C.; BAHIA, RICARDO G.; PEREIRA-FILHO, GUILHERME H.; BECKER, ANA CLARA F.; AMADO-FILHO, GILBERTO M.; RUSECKAS, ARVYDAS; TURNBULL, GRAHAM A.; SAMUEL, IFOR D. W.; BURDETT, HEIDI L.. Dominance of photo over chromatic acclimation strategies by habitat-forming mesophotic red algae. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, v. 290, n. 2008, p. 8-pg., 2023-10-04. (16/14017-0)