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dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Izzet Noyan
dc.contributor.authorMartell Hernández, Luis Felipe
dc.contributor.authorTopçu, Nur Eda
dc.contributor.authorIsinibilir, Melek
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-01T11:52:47Z
dc.date.available2021-07-01T11:52:47Z
dc.date.created2021-01-27T14:55:02Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1108-393X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2762822
dc.description.abstractThe comparative study of marine benthic hydrozoan assemblages can improve our understanding of environmental and ecological conditions in marine protected areas (MPAs) such as the large Mediterranean MPA of Datça-Bozburun, where important prospects for future intensive tourism development exist. The analysis of such assemblages may help managers detect changes in important parameters of ecosystem health within this MPA. In this study we compared the hydrozoan assemblages occurring on hard (rocky) and soft (Posidonia meadows) bottoms from stations belonging to three different conditions: i) small marinas (medium anthropogenic impact), ii) yacht stopovers (low impact), and iii) unspoiled sites (no impact) in the southern part of the Datça Peninsula during summer and winter 2015 and 2016. Significant differences in the structure, species composition and richness of benthic hydrozoans among the sampling sites were detected. In both seasons, hydroid assemblages in medium-impact sites significantly differed from little-impact and no-impact sites in terms of qualitative composition. Large structural species were widely represented in all hard-bottomed sampling sites, but small inconspicuous taxa with diverse life histories were much less abundant at the medium impacted sites. Species richness and diversity in Posidonia meadows was much higher in little- and no-impact sites, where highly specific hydroid epibionts were abundant.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherΤhe Hellenic Centre for Marine Researchen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleΒenthic hydrozoan assemblages as potential indicators of environmental health in a Μediterranean Μarine protected areaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Authorsen_US
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cristin.fulltextpostprint
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.12681/mms.20593
dc.identifier.cristin1880474
dc.source.journalMediterranean Marine Scienceen_US
dc.source.pagenumber36-46en_US
dc.identifier.citationMediterranean Marine Science. 2020, 21(1), 36-46en_US
dc.source.volume21en_US
dc.source.issue1en_US


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