Structuring effects of chemicals from the sea fan Phyllogorgia dilatata on benthic communities

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Introduction

Materials and methods

Study site

Extraction

Allelopathy experiments

Recruitment experiments

Live colony

Crude extract

Statistical analyses

Chemotaxis experiment

Results

Allelopathy experiments

Recruitment experiments

Live colonies

Crude extract

Chemotaxis experiment

Discussion

Supplemental Information

Image of Phyllogorgia dilatata in natural environment at Arraial do Cabo, RJ, Brazil

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3186/supp-1

Raw data of recruitment experiments and alleopathy

Table 1. Live colonies recruitment experiment. Percent cover of each taxon per replicate for control plates (near mimics).

Table 2. Live colonies recruitment experiment. Percent cover of each taxon per replicate for treatment plates (near Phyllogorgia dilatata colonies)

Table 3. Crude extract recruitment experiment. Percent cover per replicate for acrylic disks.

Table 4. Total area cover (cm 2) of Palythoa caribaeorum over difusion chambers. Allelopathy experiment.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3186/supp-2

Raw data of all experiments

Table 1. Live colonies recruitment experiment. Percent cover per replicate for control plates near mimics.

Table 2. Live colonies recruitment experiment. Percent cover per replicate for treatment plates near live gorgonians.

Table 3. Crude extract recruitment experiment. Percent cover per replicate for acrylic disks.

Table 4. Total area cover (cm2) of Palythoa caribaeorum on wells over time.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3186/supp-3

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Felipe V. Ribeiro conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Bernardo A.P. da Gama conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Renato C. Pereira conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

All fieldwork was carried out at Arraial do Cabo (22°58′35″ S, 42°95 00′00″W), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SISBIO 34321-1).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data has been supplied as Supplementary Files.

Funding

This work was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). RCP and BAPG received CNPq Research Productivity fellowships. FVR was supported by a Master’s degree fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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