The Dynamics of an Introduced: Balanus glandula Population in the Southwestern Atlantic Rocky Shores. The Consequences on the Intertidal Community*

Abstract. This paper deals with the population dynamics of the introduced barnacle Balanus glandula in a port shelter and a rocky shore exposed of a southwestern Atlantic area. Replicated areas in both zones were denuded monthly and censused in both the high intertidal and the upper mid intertidal zone. The settlement pattern. recruitment, mortality and growth of B. glandula and a comparative successional pattern in both areas were recorded. Recruitment began in winter, i.e., July in the port and August in the rocky shore. In the port, green algae dominate up to a final community of Balanus glandula all along the intertidal, while in rocky shores the red encrusting alga Hildenbrandia lecanellieri establishes a cover that is replaced by the mytilid Brachidontes rodriguezi in the mid intertidal and by B. glandula in the high intertidal and upper mid intertidal. B. glandula densities were greater in the upper mid intertidal 19 600 and 5050 indiv. · m^-2 in the port and rocky shore, respectively than in the high intertidal 13600 and 1100 indiv.· m^-2, respectively. Mortality was greater in the port up to 62%, but heavy settlement allows a final density 4 times greater than in eulittoral rocky shores and 10 times greater than in the high intertidal. The winter reproduction of Balanus glandula, the absence of predators, the neutral or beneficial effect of algae. with spatial and temporal partitioning of substrate allows it to successfully outcompete mussels and other barnacle species from the intertidal community of both sheltered and exposed areas.     

不同起始浓度对塔玛亚历山大藻和赤潮异弯藻种群竞争的影响

初步分析了起始浓度对塔玛亚历山大藻 (AlexandriumtamarenseBalech)和赤潮异弯藻 (HeterosigmaakashiwoHa da)种群增长的影响。在单种培养的情况下 ,A .tamarense与H .akashiwo的生长曲线可用逻辑斯谛增长模型拟合。不同起始浓度 ( 0 .2× 10 4,0 .5× 10 4,0 .8× 10 4cell/mL)对A .tamarense环境容纳量 (K)有明显的影响 ,随起始浓度的增加K有减小的趋势。H .akashiwo种群瞬时增长率 (r)随起始浓度增加而增加。按不同接种比例进行混合培养 ,不同起始浓度对 2种藻竞争的结果具有明显影响。当接种比例为A .tamarense∶H .akashiwo(A∶H) =1∶4时 ,H .akashiwo在竞争中占优势 ,而当A∶H =1∶1及A∶H =4∶1时 ,A .tamarense在竞争中占优势。竞争结果不仅受营养盐限制 ,克生物质对竞争结果亦具有重要影响。