Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs

Autores
Bravo, Gonzalo; Marquez, Federico; Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.; Mendez, María Martha; Bigatti, Gregorio
Año de publicación
2014
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Tourism has grown considerably in the last decades, promoting activities such as recreational SCUBA diving that may affect marine benthic communities. In Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, sub-aquatic tourism areas (STA) receive about 7,000 divers per year. Diving is concentrated on a few small rocky reefs and 50% of the dives occur in summer. In this work, we evaluated the effect of recreational diving ac- tivities on benthic communities and determined whether diving causes a press (long-term) or a pulse (short-term) response. We quanti fi ed the percentage cover of benthic organisms and compared benthic assemblage structure and composition between two sites with contrasting usage by divers, ‘ highly disturbed ’ and ‘ moderately disturbed ’ sites, and two ‘ control ’ sites with similar physical characteristics but no diving activity, twice before and after the diving peak in summer. We found differences in benthic assemblage structure (identity and relative abundance of taxa) and composition (identity only) among diving sites and controls. These differences were consistent before and after the peak of diving in summer, suggesting that recreational diving may produce a press impact on overall benthic assemblage structure and composition in these STA. At the moderately disturbed site, however, covers of speci fi c taxa, such as some key habitat-forming or highly abundant species, usually differed from those in controls only immediately after summer, after which they begun to resemble controls, suggesting a pulse impact. Thus, STA in Golfo Nuevo seem to respond differently to disturbances of diving depending on the usage of the sites. This information is necessary to develop sound management strategies in order to preserve local biodiversity.
Fil: Bravo, Gonzalo. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina
Fil: Marquez, Federico. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.. University of New South Wales; Australia. Sydney Institute of Marine Science; Australia
Fil: Mendez, María Martha. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Bigatti, Gregorio. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Materia
Rocky Reefs
Human Impacts
Disturbance
Scuba Diving
Tourism
Marine Invertebrate
Algae
Patagonian
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
title Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
spellingShingle Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
Bravo, Gonzalo
Rocky Reefs
Human Impacts
Disturbance
Scuba Diving
Tourism
Marine Invertebrate
Algae
Patagonian
title_short Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
title_full Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
title_fullStr Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
title_full_unstemmed Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
title_sort Effect of recreational diving on Patagonian rocky reefs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bravo, Gonzalo
Marquez, Federico
Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.
Mendez, María Martha
Bigatti, Gregorio
author Bravo, Gonzalo
author_facet Bravo, Gonzalo
Marquez, Federico
Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.
Mendez, María Martha
Bigatti, Gregorio
author_role author
author2 Marquez, Federico
Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.
Mendez, María Martha
Bigatti, Gregorio
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Rocky Reefs
Human Impacts
Disturbance
Scuba Diving
Tourism
Marine Invertebrate
Algae
Patagonian
topic Rocky Reefs
Human Impacts
Disturbance
Scuba Diving
Tourism
Marine Invertebrate
Algae
Patagonian
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Tourism has grown considerably in the last decades, promoting activities such as recreational SCUBA diving that may affect marine benthic communities. In Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, sub-aquatic tourism areas (STA) receive about 7,000 divers per year. Diving is concentrated on a few small rocky reefs and 50% of the dives occur in summer. In this work, we evaluated the effect of recreational diving ac- tivities on benthic communities and determined whether diving causes a press (long-term) or a pulse (short-term) response. We quanti fi ed the percentage cover of benthic organisms and compared benthic assemblage structure and composition between two sites with contrasting usage by divers, ‘ highly disturbed ’ and ‘ moderately disturbed ’ sites, and two ‘ control ’ sites with similar physical characteristics but no diving activity, twice before and after the diving peak in summer. We found differences in benthic assemblage structure (identity and relative abundance of taxa) and composition (identity only) among diving sites and controls. These differences were consistent before and after the peak of diving in summer, suggesting that recreational diving may produce a press impact on overall benthic assemblage structure and composition in these STA. At the moderately disturbed site, however, covers of speci fi c taxa, such as some key habitat-forming or highly abundant species, usually differed from those in controls only immediately after summer, after which they begun to resemble controls, suggesting a pulse impact. Thus, STA in Golfo Nuevo seem to respond differently to disturbances of diving depending on the usage of the sites. This information is necessary to develop sound management strategies in order to preserve local biodiversity.
Fil: Bravo, Gonzalo. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina
Fil: Marquez, Federico. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.. University of New South Wales; Australia. Sydney Institute of Marine Science; Australia
Fil: Mendez, María Martha. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Bigatti, Gregorio. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description Tourism has grown considerably in the last decades, promoting activities such as recreational SCUBA diving that may affect marine benthic communities. In Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, sub-aquatic tourism areas (STA) receive about 7,000 divers per year. Diving is concentrated on a few small rocky reefs and 50% of the dives occur in summer. In this work, we evaluated the effect of recreational diving ac- tivities on benthic communities and determined whether diving causes a press (long-term) or a pulse (short-term) response. We quanti fi ed the percentage cover of benthic organisms and compared benthic assemblage structure and composition between two sites with contrasting usage by divers, ‘ highly disturbed ’ and ‘ moderately disturbed ’ sites, and two ‘ control ’ sites with similar physical characteristics but no diving activity, twice before and after the diving peak in summer. We found differences in benthic assemblage structure (identity and relative abundance of taxa) and composition (identity only) among diving sites and controls. These differences were consistent before and after the peak of diving in summer, suggesting that recreational diving may produce a press impact on overall benthic assemblage structure and composition in these STA. At the moderately disturbed site, however, covers of speci fi c taxa, such as some key habitat-forming or highly abundant species, usually differed from those in controls only immediately after summer, after which they begun to resemble controls, suggesting a pulse impact. Thus, STA in Golfo Nuevo seem to respond differently to disturbances of diving depending on the usage of the sites. This information is necessary to develop sound management strategies in order to preserve local biodiversity.
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