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STOWING AWAY ON SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT: SCLEROBIONT ASSEMBLAGES ON INDIVIDUALLY DATED BIVALVE AND BRACHIOPOD SHELLS FROM A SUBTROPICAL SHELF

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Autor(es):
Rodland, David L. [1] ; Simoes, Marcello G. [2] ; Krause, Jr., Richard A. [3] ; Kowalewski, Michal [4]
Número total de Autores: 4
Afiliação do(s) autor(es):
[1] Muskingum Coll, Dept Geol, New Concord, OH 43762 - USA
[2] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias, BR-18618970 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Yale Univ, Peabody Museum Nat Hist, Div Invertebrate Paleontol, New Haven, CT 06520 - USA
[4] Univ Florida, Florida Museum Nat Hist, Gainesville, FL 32611 - USA
Número total de Afiliações: 4
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: PALAIOS; v. 29, n. 4, p. 170-183, APR 1 2014.
Citações Web of Science: 9
Resumo

This study evaluates encrustation and bioerosion of brachiopods (Bouchardia rosea) and bivalves (Semele casali) occurring on the inner shelf of the Southeast Brazilian Bight, accounting for differences in water depth, sediment type, host size, and time averaging. Frequencies of colonization covary across sites, but brachiopods are more frequently encrusted than bivalves at all sites, although this difference may disappear after standardization for shell size, depending on the chosen metric. Size selectivity during sclerobiont colonization appears to change as a function of their population density, rather than substrate differences between hosts. Sediment grain size and composition do not appear to exert environmental controls on encrustation or bioerosion, nor does either vary as a function of water depth alone. Radiocarbon-calibrated aspartic acid racemization dating of individual host valves shows similar age ranges and age structures for both hosts. Both epifaunal brachiopods and infaunal bivalves are colonized rapidly, within years to decades, with no further increase over millennial timescales. Rapid burial and sequestration from sclerobiont larvae is inconsistent with rapid postmortem exhumation and encrustation of infaunal bivalves, and indicates a brief temporal window for colonization. The relative abundance of sclerobionts is volatile over the time interval represented by dated valves, but temporal stability is seen in presence-absence data for epibiont and endobiont taxa. These results support the utility of taphonomic deployment experiments for investigating long-term patterns of hard-substrate colonization, but indicate careful consideration of host size is required for comparison of sclerobiont assemblages within or among taxa. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 00/12659-7 - Brachiopod and Bivalve taphonomy in subtropical siliciclastic settings of northern coast of São Paulo State: enviromental variation in taphonomic signatures, biostratinomic style and time-averaging
Beneficiário:Marcello Guimarães Simões
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular