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Modeling the succession of barnacles and mussels on a sandstone reef in Pernambuco State, Brazil

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Settlement and recruitment rates, biological interactions, environmental parameters, and larval supply are factors that influence community structure in areas where barnacles and mussels are the dominant fauna. This study modeled the succession populations of two barnacle species, Tetraclita stalactifera (Lamarck, 1818) and Chthamalus bisinuatus (Pilsbry, 1916), and a bivalve, Brachidontes solisianus (d’Orbigny, 1846), on a sandstone reef at Piedade Beach, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The different stages of the life cycles of these invertebrates are represented by adult and immature forms in this model and are simulated as numbers of individuals per 100 cm2. Recruitment rates are represented as forcing functions based on field recruitment experiments with time-steps of 1 day. In addition to intraspecific competition, the model takes into account interspecific competition based on reciprocal effects and carrying capacities. Field data from field succession experiments were used to calibrate the model. Recruitment and succession data were collected from random 10 × 10-cm plots within a 1-m transect on a Brachidontes bed from April to December 2007. Correlation coefficients between field data and simulation results were statistically significant for both populations; sensitivity analysis showed that increases and decreases in invertebrate population densities were always smaller than 10% compared to baseline model values. Patch closure by mussels population growth was one of the main succession processes observed during the rainy season. However, barnacles were the dominant species at the end of both field and simulation succession experiments, with an average density of close to 100 individuals per 100 cm2. Cirripedia individuals may inhibit bivalve re-colonization by settling over shells and more efficiently occupying free space in addition to having higher recruitment rates than bivalves during the dry season.

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This work received financial support from the Brazil National Research Council (CNPq) and Facepe (Pernambuco State Research Foundation), grant numbers APQ.0129.2.05/06 and 470424/2007-9.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade de Pernambuco, Rua Arnóbio Marques, 310, Santo Amaro, Recife, PE, 50100-130, Brazil

    Mariana Alves de Guimaraens, Betty Rose de Araújo Luz & Jessica Pires Sá Carneiro

  2. Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas (CCB), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Moraes Rego s/n, Recife, PE, 50670-420, Brazil

    Janilson Félix da Silva

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de Guimaraens, M.A., de Araújo Luz, B.R., Félix da Silva, J. et al. Modeling the succession of barnacles and mussels on a sandstone reef in Pernambuco State, Brazil. Hydrobiologia 658, 365–372 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0506-2

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