PMID- 34273865
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210907
LR  - 20210907
IS  - 1879-0291 (Electronic)
IS  - 0141-1136 (Linking)
VI  - 170
DP  - 2021 Aug
TI  - Two facets of geotextiles in coastal ecosystems: Anti- or profouling effects?
PG  - 105414
LID - S0141-1136(21)00170-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105414 [doi]
AB  - Nonwoven geotextile fabrics have physical, mechanical and hydraulic properties 
      useful in coastal protection as an alternative to natural stone, slag, and 
      concrete. In a 10-month experiment, the colonisation of macrofouling organisms on 
      different substrata based on polypropylene (PP), polyester (PET) or high density 
      polyethylene (HDPE) fibres was investigated in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy - an 
      environment with temperate transitional waters with high biodiversity - and 
      compared with the colonisation on wood as a reference substratum, because of its 
      occurrence in artificial structures at the study location, until a stable stage 
      was reached in the development of the macrofouling community. Geotextile fabrics 
      showed implications for community development. They affected both ecological 
      succession in different ways by disturbing biofouling settlement and growth (HDPE 
      fabrics) or favouring species which become dominant (PP fabrics). For these 
      two-faceted aspects that potentially cause different long-term impacts on the 
      biodiversity of resident communities, the use of geotextile fabrics as 
      antifouling or as profouling systems for restoration of degraded ecosystems is 
      discussed. In all cases, the communities displayed unique properties, such as 
      differences in the settlement of pioneer species, an initial disturbance to 
      serpulid settlement, absence of barnacles, selection of dominant taxa 
      (ascidians), and changes in the percentages of various taxa forming the community 
      structure. Given the increasing interest in geotextile materials for employment 
      in various marine developments and industries, these results could represent 
      first lines of evidence to inform decision-making to minimise/modify biofouling, 
      and/or predict the use of artificial substrata as habitats by marine organisms.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Varello, Roberta
AU  - Varello R
AD  - Laboratory of Ascidian Biology, Department of Biology (DiBio), University of 
      Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padova, Italy.
FAU - Wetzel, Markus A
AU  - Wetzel MA
AD  - Department of Animal Ecology, German Federal Institute of Hydrology - BfG, Am 
      Mainzer Tor 1, 56068, Koblenz, Germany; Institute for Integrated Natural 
      Sciences, University of Koblenz - Landau, Universitatsstrasse 1, 56070, Koblenz, 
      Germany.
FAU - Cima, Francesca
AU  - Cima F
AD  - Laboratory of Ascidian Biology, Department of Biology (DiBio), University of 
      Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padova, Italy. Electronic address: 
      francesca.cima@unipd.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210713
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Environ Res
JT  - Marine environmental research
JID - 9882895
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - *Biofouling
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - *Thoracica
MH  - *Urochordata
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Biodiversity descriptors
OT  - Biofouling
OT  - Ecological succession
OT  - Lagoon of Venice
OT  - Macrofouling community
OT  - Nonwoven geotextile fabrics
EDAT- 2021/07/18 06:00
MHDA- 2021/09/08 06:00
CRDT- 2021/07/17 20:27
PHST- 2021/05/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/06/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/07/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/09/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/17 20:27 [entrez]
AID - S0141-1136(21)00170-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105414 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Environ Res. 2021 Aug;170:105414. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105414. Epub 
      2021 Jul 13.