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- Title
PATTERNS OF INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS IN THE ULVA-DOMINATED INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY IN A SOUTHERN COAST OF KOREA.
- Authors
Bhang, Y.J.; Kim, J.H.
- Abstract
In the southern coast of Korea, rocky intertidal zones where green tide commonly occurs are dominated by Ulva pertusa, red algal turf (a mixed stand of Gigartina intermedia and Gigartina teedii) and species of Enteromorpha with highly opportunistic occurrence. To investigate their interspecific interactions, a field experiment was carried out using press effect of one species removal from permanent plots (20 x 20cm) set up on two different tidal heights. Mechanisms of interaction were also attempted using artificial plants to test the possible effects of shading, scouring, allelopathy of U. pertusa on the turf algae. The turf-forming red algae lowered the abundance of U. pertusa presumably by inhibiting the recruitment of U. pertusa; this effect was consistent along the tidal height. However, the greater abundance of Enteromorpha was observed in the presence of turf in the upper zone, indicating a positive effect of turf on Enteromorpha. Once U. pertusa was successfully recruited and grown to the adult plant, it inhibited the growth of turf by shading, which was effective both in winter and summer regardless of desiccation stress. No scouring and allelopathic effects of U. pertusa on the turf were detected. When an open substrate was provided, Enteromorpha colonized the space faster than any other species in the upper zone, but the turf was the fastest one followed by U. pertusa and Enteromorpha in the lower zone. Results indicated that patterns of interaction represented a complex network with no ultimate winner and the outcomes of interaction varied over time and space.
- Subjects
KOREA; INTERTIDAL ecology; ULVA
- Publication
Journal of Phycology, 2000, Vol 36, p6
- ISSN
0022-3646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.00001-17.x