PELD - HCES | MBON Pole to Pole: Rockyshore Biodiversity of Costa das Algas, Brazil
PELD - HCES | Habitats Costeiros do Espírito Santo
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Description
The MBON Pole to Pole effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a coordinated, standardized manner leveraging on existing infrastructure managed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS; IOC-UNESCO), the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The MBON Pole to Pole aims to become a key resource for decision-making and management of living resource across countries in the Americas for reporting requirements under the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Aichi Targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Long-term Program of Ecological Research Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo (PELD HCES), part of the Brazilian LTER program, is an official collaborator to MBON Pole to Pole, through Dr. Ana Carolina de A. Mazzuco and Prof. Dr. Angelo Fraga Bernardino. The sampling, materials, and personnel were financed by Long-term Program of Ecological Research Coastal Habitats of Espírito Santo (PELD HCES) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Angelo Fraga Bernardino (Benthic Ecology Group at the Oceanography Department, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo). PELD HCES is supported by CAPES, CNPq, and FAPES grants (fellowships: 88887.185758/2018-00, 88887.137932/2017-00, 371008/2017-4; grants: 441243/2016-9; 79054684/17).
The Pole to Pole project is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant 80NSSC18K0318, ”Laying the foundations of the Pole-to-Pole Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) of the Americas”, and co-sponsored by AmeriGEO.
Geographic Description
This study was carried out at a marine protected area Área de Preservação Ambiental C in the Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion (Área de Proteção Costa das Algas, Bernardino et al., 2015). 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).
Three shallow reefs were chosen as study sites where benthic assemblages were sampled (Gramuté, Enseada das Garças, Costa Bela). These sites are similar in their presence of lateritic substrate, geographical orientation (i.e. E), moderate exposure to wave action, easiness of access (e.i. < 1 min walking distance), and anthropogenic pressure (i.e. located in small human settlements with no direct sewage disposal to the reef area).
Cited References:
Pereira AF, Belém AL, Castro BM, Geremias RG. 2005. Tide-topography interaction along the eastern Brazilian shelf. Continental Shelf Research 25, 1521–1539. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2005.04.008
Bernardino AF, Netto SA, Pagliosa PR, Barros F, Christofoletti RA, Rosa Filho JS, Colling A, Lana PC. 2015. Predicting ecological changes on benthic estuarine assemblages through decadal climate trends along Brazilian Marine Ecoregions. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 166, 74-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.021
Bernardino AF, Pagliosa PR, Christofoletti RA, Barros F, Netto SA, Muniz P, Lana PC. 2016. Benthic estuarine communities in Brazil: moving forward to long term studies to assess climate change impacts. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 64:83–97. DOI: 10.1590/S1679-875920160849064sp2
Pianca C, Mazzini PLF, Siegle E. 2010. Brazilian offshore wave cli- mate based on NWW3 reanalysis. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 58(1), 53– 70. doi:10.1590/S1679-87592010000100006
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 developed during the Marine Biodiversity Workshop: from the Sea to the Cloud, at Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, Brasil. August 6-10, 2018
Citation
Mazzuco A C A, Bernardino A F (2019): MBON POLE TO POLE: ROCKYSHORE BIODIVERSITY OF COSTA DAS ALGAS, BRAZIL. v1.9. Caribbean OBIS Node. Dataset/Samplingevent. 10.15468/7mcnkz
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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