Alimentación y diversidad algal en la dieta del erizo Diadema antillarum en Tenerife, Islas Canarias
- Herrera López, Guacimara
- Cruz Reyes, Alejandro
- Hernández Pérez, José Carlos
- González Lorenzo, Gustavo
- García Hernández, Nayra
ISSN: 1130-4723
Year of publication: 2003
Volume: 15
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 129-141
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum
Abstract
At the present time, Diadema antillarum is one of most abundant gregarious littoral marine invertebrates in the Canary Islands. Their grazing activity reduce drastically the algal cover, creating extensive barren areas in rocky bottom. In this work we studied the gut content in two contrasting habitat in Abades (southeast of Tenerife), one of them with hight densities of sea urchin (barren ground) and the other with low densities (grazing front).