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Coastal meroplanktonic larval stages of peninsula de Llevant natural reserve determined with light traps

  • Autores: Ariadna Tor, Salud Deudero Company, Aina Carbonell Quetglas, Raquel Goñi Beltrán de Garizurieta, Ben Stobart
  • Localización: Bolletí de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears, ISSN 0212-260X, Nº. 53, 2010, págs. 193-202
  • Idioma: inglés
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    • The microscale spatial distribution of coastal zooplankton was studied during the month of June at the largest marine reserve of Mallorca: Peninsula de Llevant using light traps. The assemblage was characterized by the most abundant taxa being peracarida crustaceans, including isopods, cumaceans and amphipods. Decapoda larvae, especially brachyuran megalopa larvae, were also abundant with Monodaeus couchii, Pinnotheres sp., Ebalia sp. and specimens from Portunidae family as the most abundant species. Analyses of crustacean abundance between light traps indicated a vertical distribution on the water column, with lower abundance at surface traps and higher at bottom traps. No clear horizontal pattern in total crustacean abundance was found, except in megalopa larvae that showed a gradient in relation to the distance to coastline. Light traps have been corroborated as a valuable tool for sampling crustacean larvae and therefore to assess effects of protection on planktonic stages.


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