A REVIEW OF THE MACROBENTHIC FAUNA OF THE MHLATHUZE ESTUARY: SETTING THE ECOLOGICAL RESERVE

Diarimella laurentidae, a new species occurring on dead bark and decorticated twigs of American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.), is reported from the Muir's Wood ecological reserve, located in the centre of the Haut-Saint-Laurent region in the province of Quebec. Diarimella laurentidae is characterized by stromatic, pulvinate, black, setose fructifications composed of a basal stroma of textura angularis, a brown peripheral wall of textura porrecta, conidiomatal setae of two types, and unicellular multisetulate conidia. Its relationships with described Diarimella species is discussed. This is the first report of a species of Diarimella from North America.Key words: Diarimella laurentidae, new fungus species, coelomycete, Fagus grandifolia.

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Changes in the Macrobenthic Fauna of the Shigetomi-higata Tidal Flats in Kagoshima Bay: Comparison between 1994 and 2005

Japanese journal of benthology ◽

10.5179/benthos.64.32 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 64 (0) ◽

pp. 32-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tomoko YAMAMOTO ◽

Ai MASUYA ◽

Koji MATSUSHITA ◽

Masanori SATO

Keyword(s):

Tidal Flats ◽

Macrobenthic Fauna ◽

Kagoshima Bay

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Seasonal fluctuations in macrobenthic fauna of theFucus belt in kiel fjord (western baltic sea)

Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen ◽

10.1007/bf01983631 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 277-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

K. Anders ◽

H. Möller

Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Seasonal Fluctuations ◽

Kiel Fjord ◽

Macrobenthic Fauna

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Consumption of an exotic plant (Spartina alterniflora) by the macrobenthic fauna in a mangrove wetland at Zhanjiang, China

Wetlands ◽

10.1007/s13157-017-0970-9 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 327-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Quan Chen ◽

Guorui Xu ◽

Shuang Zhang ◽

Keming Ma

Keyword(s):

Spartina Alterniflora ◽

Exotic Plant ◽

Macrobenthic Fauna ◽

Mangrove Wetland

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Loon abundance and behaviour over four decades at a remote ecological reserve on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada

The Canadian Field-Naturalist ◽

10.22621/cfn.v135i1.2617 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 135 (1) ◽

pp. 28-38

Author(s):

Thomas Reimchen ◽

Sheila Douglas

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Gasterosteus Aculeatus ◽

Evolutionary Ecology ◽

Inverse Correlation ◽

Gavia Immer ◽

Haida Gwaii ◽

Average Wind Speed ◽

The North ◽

Common Loons ◽

Ecological Reserve

Early studies (1976–1982) of the Drizzle Lake Ecological Reserve on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia focussed on the endemic Giant Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and their predators. These surveys showed daily visits to the small lake (110 ha) by up to 59 adult non-breeding Common Loon (Gavia immer), an important stickleback predator and up to 19 breeding and non-breeding adult Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata), which leave daily to forage in nearby marine waters. We continued loon surveys for 17 additional years (1983–1989, 2011–2020) and found that aggregations of non-breeding Common Loons occurred annually on the lake during July with maximum daily numbers of 78–83 individuals in 1987, 2018, and 2020 and a large increase from 2011 to 2020. We did not detect any relationship of these differences with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation but a significant inverse correlation with average wind speed. Average yearly numbers of Red-throated Loons declined by 50% from 1976 to 1989 and have remained low, with lowest numbers (<2) occurring in 2017. Two Red-throated Loon nesting territories on the lake were occupied from 1976 to 1995, with chicks occurring in 24 of 36 nests, but no successful nesting was observed on the lake over the last decade. The relative decline of Red-throated Loon in this reserve is similar to that reported in Arctic and Subarctic surveys of the species in the north Pacific and northern Europe. We discuss the implications for the evolutionary ecology of the sticklebacks and the conservation of the ecological reserve.

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