Érika Flávia Crispim de Santana

Universidade Federal da Paraíba | UFPB · Department of Systematics and Ecology

The richness of marine teleost fishes from the tropical northeastern Brazilian coast was compiled through an extensive search of published species records and of voucher specimens in collections. Results are presented in a systematic listthat includes 571 marine species across 98 families considered as valid records in coastal and estuarine environ...

The bearded fireworm Hermodice carunculata is widely distributed across tropical and subtropical Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans and was previously considered to be mostly associated with shallow reefs. We provide here data on the distribution, abundance and habitat use of H. carunculata across a euphotic-mesophotic gradient (0-90 m) in the Saint...

Southwestern Atlantic reefs (Brazilian Province) occur along a broad latitudinal range (∼5°N-27°S) and under varied environmental conditions. We combined large-scale benthic cover and environmental data into uni- and multivariate regression tree analyses to identify unique shallow (<30 m) benthic reef communities and their environmental drivers alo...

Corals from the genus Scolymia have high-sediment-shifting capabilities and are generally associated with habitats with low light levels (shallow shaded/high-turbidity reefs and mesophotic reefs >30 m depth). Here, the spatio-temporal dynamics in abundance, growth, and health (i.e., proportion of bleached/dead tissue) of the solitary coral Scolymia...

O objetivo do trabalho foi o levantamento dos cnidários presentes nos recifes de Maragogi (Alagoas), além da análise do percentual de cobertura dos organismos bentônicos, para coleta de informações faunísticas básicas para o manejo e a conservação desses ecossistemas. O estudo foi realizado no período de dezembro de 2012 a julho de 2013, através de...

In Brazilian reefs, zoanthids, especially Palythoa caribaeorum are fundamental for structuring the local benthic community. The objective of this study was to determine the growth rate of P. caribaeorum, and to assess the influence of the site (different beaches), season (dry and wet), location (intertidal or infralittoral zones), and human pressur...

This study examined the trophic ecology of the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum in tropical reefs and evaluated its role in the energy flow in that ecosystem. Colonies of this species were sampled in the infralittoral zone of reefs in north-eastern Brazil in 2008. We calculated the richness, total abundance, relative abundance and frequency of occurre...