TY - JOUR
T1 - Restoration experiment of Zostera marina L. in a subtropical coastal lagoon
AU - Rodríguez-Salinas, Paola
AU - Riosmena-Rodríguez, Rafael
AU - Hinojosa-Arango, Gustavo
AU - Muñiz-Salazar, Raquel
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was carried out in the scope of the research project Seagrass restoration in Bahia Magdalena funded by the Packard Foundation in collaboration with the School for Field Studies (SFS). We are thankful to the many individuals who assisted us in the field like the Marine Botany Research Program from the UABCS members and all the SFS staff. Also we thank Darren Sage who helped us with the English edition. The authors gratefully acknowledge the key financial and logistical and support provided by The School for Field Studies (SFS) Center for Coastal Ecology.
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Zostera marina is the dominant seagrass species in coastal lagoons on the western coast of Baja California Peninsula, and due to its coastal location it is threatened by natural and anthropogenic factors, as is happening in Puerto San Carlos, B.C.S., where a fish cannery unloads its wastewater to the beach. Apparently an extensive intertidal meadow replacement was established by great amounts of green macroalgae. We evaluated the possibility to mitigate the impacts of this cannery with transplants of Z. marina meadow using adult plants. The transplant experiment was made in two different seasons for which two undisturbed donor meadows were chosen: El Cuervo and San Carlitos. The winter one obtained a 30% and in San Carlitos 90% after 13 months and the autumn transplant in San Carlos obtained a 0% of survival after 3 months. The results of these transplant activities were reflected in the shoot density at the end of the experiment (San Carlos was of 482 shoots/m2 and San Carlitos of 818 shoots/m2s and agree with the density of the natural meadows. This experiment shows that it is possible to develop a small-scale seagrass restoration as mitigation for Baja California coastal lagoons which are under severe threat for coastal development.
AB - Zostera marina is the dominant seagrass species in coastal lagoons on the western coast of Baja California Peninsula, and due to its coastal location it is threatened by natural and anthropogenic factors, as is happening in Puerto San Carlos, B.C.S., where a fish cannery unloads its wastewater to the beach. Apparently an extensive intertidal meadow replacement was established by great amounts of green macroalgae. We evaluated the possibility to mitigate the impacts of this cannery with transplants of Z. marina meadow using adult plants. The transplant experiment was made in two different seasons for which two undisturbed donor meadows were chosen: El Cuervo and San Carlitos. The winter one obtained a 30% and in San Carlitos 90% after 13 months and the autumn transplant in San Carlos obtained a 0% of survival after 3 months. The results of these transplant activities were reflected in the shoot density at the end of the experiment (San Carlos was of 482 shoots/m2 and San Carlitos of 818 shoots/m2s and agree with the density of the natural meadows. This experiment shows that it is possible to develop a small-scale seagrass restoration as mitigation for Baja California coastal lagoons which are under severe threat for coastal development.
KW - Nutrients
KW - Subtropical
KW - Survival
KW - Transplants
KW - Zostera marina
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=71149086489&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.09.004
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0925-8574
VL - 36
SP - 12
EP - 18
JO - Ecological Engineering
JF - Ecological Engineering
IS - 1
ER -