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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2019.24.1.128

Does the Availability of Various Types and Quantity of Food Limit the Community Structure of the Benthos (Mollusks) Inhabiting in the Hard-bottom Subtidal Area?  

SON, MIN-HO (Marine Eco-Technology Institute)
KIM, HYUN-JUNG (Marine Eco-Technology Institute)
KANG, CHANG-KEUN (School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
HWANG, IN-SUH (Marine Ecosystem Management Team, Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation)
KIM, YOUNG-NAM (Marine Ecosystem Management Team, Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation)
MOON, CHANG-HO (Department of Oceanography, Pukyong National University)
HWANG, JUNG-MIN (Marine Eco-Technology Institute)
HAN, SU-JIN (Marine Eco-Technology Institute)
LEE, WON-HAENG (Marine Eco-Technology Institute)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.24, no.1, 2019 , pp. 128-138 More about this Journal
Abstract
Effects of feeding type and food resource availability on community structure of mollusks inhabiting hard-bottom subtidal areas were investigated. By following guidance from several references, mollusks observed in this study were divided into 5 groups according to feeding type - 1) grazing, 2) filter feeding, 3) deposit feeding, 4) omnivorous and 5) predation. The results showed that both grazing and filter feeders were the most numerous, explaining grazing type in the East Sea accounting for 47.9%, 32.6% in the South Sea and 29.6% for filter feeding, and filter feeding as a dominant feeding type in Yellow Sea accounting for 42.3%. Results of this study showed distinctive difference in community structure depending on mechanism of feeding type and geographical areas where sampling took place. With the results, attempts were made to understand whether community structure could be affected by feeding type or feeding availability and found out that community structure depended heavily on food resource availability. In the East Sea where marine algal density was high, the algal community in the forms of thick-leathery and sheet often occurred in water column with high transparency which provides proper environment for growth. In the South Sea where grazing and filter feeding types were predominated similarly, the algal density was high, but had the relative highest phytoplankton density. Whereas in the Yellow Sea showing the lowest algal biomass compared to the one in the East and the South Sea, and phytoplankton density was similar to those. It might be a adequate environment for filter feeders than grazers. This study concluded that community structure of mollusks showing high abundance was present where food resource availability with types and quantity was high.
Keywords
Mollusks; Community structure; Food resource availability; Feeding type; Hard-bottom subdial area; National Marine Ecosystem Monitoring Program;
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