Título: Comparing shoot population dynamics methods on Posidonia oceanica meadows
Autores: González Correa, José Miguel
Fernández Torquemada, Yolanda
Sánchez Lizaso, José Luis
Fecha: 2009-07-22
2009-07-22
2007
2007-12-21
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Mortality rate
Net shoot recruitment rate
Population demography
Posidonia oceanica
Shoot census
Shoot population dynamics
Biología Marina
Descripción: Prediction capacity of three main shoot population dynamics methods (age structure, net shoot recruitment per plagiotropic rhizome and shoot census) have been tested for a period of four years (2002–2006) on a Posidonia oceanica meadow. Accuracy of each method was checked by comparing measured and predicted densities at the end of the study period. Predicted densities came from the evolution of initial densities (measured in 2002) by a basic exponential model of population growth. The exponential model used the different net shoot recruitment rate estimates by each population dynamics method on three depths (upper, medium and lower limit) and three localities at each depth. Predictions performed by shoot census and net shoot recruitment per plagiotropic rhizome methods matched with measured densities at the end of the study period. Conversely, age structure method underestimated shoot densities at each depth, indicating an unreal decrease of shoot population in the meadow.
Idioma: Inglés

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