PELD - HCES | Brazil Reef Biodiversity - ILTER Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo (Site: Gramuté)
PELD - HCES | Habitats Costeiros do Espírito Santo
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Description
The PELD (Long-term Program of Ecological Research) Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo is part of the Brazilian LTER program and started in 2017. It is located on the Eastern Coast of Brazil, and includes coastal ecosystems including estuaries, mangroves, coastal reefs and rodolith beds. This is an innovative project to assess the temporal patterns in multiple coastal ecosystems in the East ern Brazil Marine Ecoregion, where there is a decadal warming trend. The program associates research and conservation, at three Conservation units: Coasta das Algas Environmental Protected Area (APACA), Santa Cruz Wildlife Refuge (RVSSC) and Municipal Reserves of Integral Protection of the mangroves of Piraquê-Açu and Piraquê-Mirim rivers (RPPAM).
The project aims to investigate the interactions among abiotic, climatic and ecological dynamics in the benthic communities and Ichthyofauna assemblies associated with the estuaries, the mangroves and the Rhodolith beds.
PELD-HCES counts with a research team coordinated by UFES in partnership with USP, UFBA, UFSB, UFF, UFPR, UNISUL, UFSC and the State University of Oregon, and funded by CNPQ, CAPES and FAPES.
Geographic Description
This study was carried out at a marine protected area in the Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion (Área de Proteção Costa das Algas; environmental permit by Instituto Chico Mendes #57819-1; Fig. 1). The coastal zone is characterized by dispersed intertidal lateritic reefs with abundant macroalgal and rhodolith beds. Coastal oceanographic conditions are typically influenced by E-NE winds from the South Atlantic high-pressure system, strong internal tidal currents, and E-SE wave swells (Pereira et al., 2005; Pianca et al. 2010). Meteorological cold fronts occur periodically and influence the vertical mixing of the water column and wave action on the coast (Pianca et al., 2010). Episodic upwelling events occur mostly during spring and summer (Pereira et al., 2005). This is a tropical region with an average air temperature of 25oC that have experienced significant warming trends in the last four decades (Bernardino et al., 2015; Bernardino et al., 2016).
Data quality
Taxonomic validity was verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS; www.marinespecies.org) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS; https://obis.org/)
Methods
Samples were processed following the rocky shore intertidal protocol from ILTER Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo. http://bentos.ufes.br/conteudo/peld-coastal-habitats-esp%C3%ADrito-santo-peld-hces
Citation
Mazzuco A C A, Bernardino A F (2019): Brazil Reef Biodiversity - ILTER Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo (Site: Gramuté). v1.2. Caribbean OBIS Node. Dataset/Samplingevent. 10.15468/7mcnkz
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
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