[HTML][HTML] Photoautotrophic euendoliths and their complex ecological effects in marine bioengineered ecosystems

AM Dievart, CD McQuaid, GI Zardi, KR Nicastro… - Diversity, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Photoautotrophic euendolithic microorganisms are ubiquitous where there are calcium
carbonate substrates to bore into and sufficient light to sustain photosynthesis. The most …

Symbiont-induced intraspecific phenotypic variation enhances plastic trap** and ingestion in biogenic habitats

KR Nicastro, L Seuront, CD McQuaid… - Science of The Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Plastic contamination has major effects on biodiversity, enhancing the consequences of
other forms of global anthropogenic disturbance such as climate change and habitat …

Thermal stress gradient causes increasingly negative effects towards the range limit of an invasive mussel

KCK Ma, JR Monsinjon, PW Froneman… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Environmental filtering (EF), the abiotic exclusion of species, can have first order, direct
effects with cascading consequences for population dynamics, especially at range edges …

Foul‐weather friends: Modelling thermal stress mitigation by symbiotic endolithic microbes in a changing environment

GI Zardi, JR Monsinjon, CD McQuaid… - Global Change …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temperature extremes are predicted to intensify with climate change. These extremes are
rapidly emerging as a powerful driver of species distributional changes with the capacity to …

Biogeographic drivers of distribution and abundance in an alien ecosystem engineer: Transboundary range expansion, barriers to spread, and spatial structure

KCK Ma, MNC Gusha, GI Zardi… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biogeographic boundaries can act as either weak or strong barriers to the spread of
species undergoing distributional change. Once a novel species spreads across a …

Ectoparasites reduce scope for growth in a rocky-shore mussel (Perna perna) by raising maintenance costs

A Ndhlovu, CD McQuaid, CJ Monaco - Science of the Total Environment, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Endolithic cyanobacteria are ubiquitous colonisers of organic and inorganic carbonate
substrata that frequently attack the shells of mussels, eroding the shell to extract carbon …

[PDF][PDF] Epibiotic association of encrusting cheilostome bryozoans on shells of an invasive mussel from rocky shores of South Africa, with the description of a new …

MK Boonzaaier-Davids, KCK Ma, CD Mcquaid - Zootaxa, 2023‏ - researchgate.net
Rocky shores typically exhibit a variety of sedentary and free-moving forms of epibionts
associated with the shells of mussel basibionts. This paper provides a first report on epibiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Symbiotic endolithic microbes reduce host vulnerability to an unprecedented heatwave

GI Zardi, JR Monsinjon, L Seuront, N Spilmont… - Marine Environmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Heatwaves are increasingly severe and frequent, posing significant threats to ecosystems
and human well-being. Characterised by high thermal variability, intertidal communities are …

Community succession in phototrophic shell-degrading endoliths attacking intertidal mussels

A Ndhlovu, CD McQuaid, KR Nicastro… - Journal of Molluscan …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Intertidal mussels are important ecosystem engineers that increase habitat complexity and
provide shelter, substratum and food to associated communities. They thus play a key role in …

Marine hard substrate communities

JL Gutiérrez, SD Hacker, MA Coombes, C Wild… - Marine …, 2022‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Marine hard-substrate habitats include rock, the hard parts of organisms, and anthropogenic
materials that vary in composition, physical properties, and spatial extent. Globally, hard …