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Peñas-Torramilans R, Outeiral R, Santiago J, Vázquez E, Weidberg N. Influence of a changing wave climate on the quality and morphometry of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789), along the coasts of NW Iberia. REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES 2024; 34:781-804. [PMID: 38756184 PMCID: PMC11093743 DOI: 10.1007/s11160-024-09838-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
Abstract
Wave climate is shifting over the last decades along the Atlantic coasts of Europe ultimately driven by large-scale patterns of atmospheric variability forced by anthropogenic global warming. Changes in wave height and surf zone orbital currents are hypothesized to drive marked shifts in the shape of intertidal organisms such as the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes, whose quality and market price are known to decrease non linearly with the peduncle length: width ratio S. This study evaluates wave trends in NW Iberian Peninsula, using the Spanish Port System 2006-2020 SIMAR wave hindcast. On the other hand, trends in stalked barnacle morphology and quality are estimated from 26 sites at the management regions of Baiona and A Guarda between 2011 and 2020. Results show evidence of temporal changes in barnacle quality and, especially, morphometry caused by simultaneous shifts in winter wave induced orbital currents. Because of the non linear relationship between S and the high quality threshold, large increases in S are usually translated to small reductions in quality. However, we identified a tipping point around S = 2.4 that if surpassed can lead to great drops in barnacle quality. In addition, changes in wave forcing will have different effects at each extraction site, as trends in wave climate are decoupled from barnacle morphometry at steeper sites sheltered from the predominant wave direction. In conclusion, this knowledge could be applied to develop site specific barnacle harvesting strategies based on annual wave climate forecasts. Graphical abstract Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11160-024-09838-2.
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- Raquel Peñas-Torramilans
- CIM – Centro de Investigación Mariña and Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- Present Address: Departament d’Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental (DECA), Laboratori d’Enginyeria Marítima (LIM), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), C. Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Catalunya Spain
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- Confraría de Pescadores de A Guarda, Baixo Muro, 32, 36780 A Guardia, Galicia Spain
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- Cofradía de Pescadores La Anunciada de Baiona, Casa del Mar, Segunda Planta, 36300 Baiona, Spain
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- CIM – Centro de Investigación Mariña and Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- CIM – Centro de Investigación Mariña and Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
- Present Address: Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Torres G, Charmantier G, Giménez L. Ontogeny of osmoregulation of the Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus at an invaded site of Europe. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 9:coab094. [PMID: 35145698 PMCID: PMC8824517 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coab094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We studied the ontogeny of osmoregulation of the Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus at an invaded area in the North Sea. H. sanguineus is native to Japan and China but has successfully invaded the Atlantic coast of North America and Europe. In the invaded areas, H. sanguineus is becoming a keystone species as driver of community structure and the adults compete with the shore crab Carcinus maenas. Strong osmoregulatory abilities may confer the potential to use and invade coastal areas already earlier in the life cycle. We reared larvae and first juveniles at 24°C in seawater from hatching to intermoult of each developmental stage (zoea I-V, megalopa, crab I). We exposed each stage to a range of salinities (0-39 ppt) for 24 h, and then we quantified haemolymph osmolality, using nano-osmometry. In addition, we quantified osmolality in field-collected adults after acclimation to the test salinities for 6 days. Larvae of H. sanguineus were able to hyper-osmoregulate at low salinities (15 and 20 ppt) over the complete larval development, although the capacity was reduced at the zoeal stage V; at higher salinities (25-39 ppt), all larval stages were osmoconformers. The capacity to slightly hypo-regulate at high salinity appeared in the first juvenile. Adults were able to hyper-osmoregulate at low salinities and hypo-regulate at concentrated seawater (39 ppt). H. sanguineus showed a strong capacity to osmoregulate as compared to its native competitor C. maenas, which only hyper-regulates at the first and last larval stages and does not hypo-regulate at the juvenile-adult stages. The capacity of H. sanguineus to osmoregulate over most of the life cycle should underpin the potential to invade empty niches in the coastal zone (characterized by low salinity and high temperatures). Osmoregulation abilities over the whole life cycle also constitute a strong competitive advantage over C. maenas.
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- Gabriela Torres
- * Corresponding author: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, 27498 Helgoland, Germany. Tel: +49 4725 8193141.
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- Marbec, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, 34095 cx 05 Montpellier, France
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- Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27498 Helgoland, Germany
- School of Ocean Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bangor University, LL59 5AB Menai Bridge, UK
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Menge BA, Foley MM, Robart MJ, Richmond E, Noble M, Chan F. Keystone predation: trait‐based or driven by extrinsic processes? Assessment using a comparative‐experimental approach. ECOL MONOGR 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Bruce A. Menge
- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
- San Francisco Estuary Institute 4911 Central Avenue Richmond California 94804 USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
- Vantuna Research Group Occidental College 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles California 90041 USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean University of Washington Seattle Washington 98115 USA
- Marine Mammal Laboratory Alaska Fisheries Science Center NOAA Seattle Washington 98105 USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
- Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University B48 Linnaeus Way Acton Australian Capital Territory 2601 Australia
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- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331‐2914 USA
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Scrosati RA. Effects of Intertidal Elevation on Barnacle Recruit Density and Size in Wave-Exposed Habitats on the Atlantic Canadian Coast. Northeast Nat (Steuben) 2020. [DOI: 10.1656/045.027.0201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Ricardo A. Scrosati
- St. Francis Xavier University, Department of Biology, 2320 Notre Dame Avenue, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada;
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Shanks AL, Morgan SG. Testing the intermittent upwelling hypothesis: reply. Ecology 2018; 100:e02516. [PMID: 30204932 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Alan L Shanks
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, P.O. Box 5389, Charleston, Oregon, 97420, USA
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- Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California Davis, 2099 Westshore Drive, Bodega Bay, California, 94923-0247, USA
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Menge BA, Menge DNL. Testing the intermittent upwelling hypothesis: comment. Ecology 2018; 100:e02476. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Bruce A. Menge
- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331 USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Columbia University New York New York 10027 USA
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Salant CD, Shanks AL. Surf-zone hydrodynamics alter phytoplankton subsidies affecting reproductive output and growth of tidal filter feeders. Ecology 2018; 99:1878-1889. [PMID: 29888460 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2017] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Surf zones, classified from reflective to dissipative, separate the ocean from shore and subsidies from the coastal ocean must pass through surf zones to reach the shore. We have observed that variations in phytoplankton concentrations in the water over the intertidal zone varied with surf-zone hydrodynamics and we hypothesized that this variation would alter growth rates, population structure, and reproductive output of Mytilus californianus and Balanus glandula. From May 2016 to April 2017, along 7 km of Cape Arago, Oregon, USA surf-zone phytoplankton concentrations were determined weekly at nine sites with varying surf-zone hydrodynamics as indicated by surf-zone widths. Throughout the year, concentrations of phytoplankton in wider, more dissipative surf zones were, on average, 16× higher than in narrow, more reflective surf zones. Similar to previous observations, surf-zone width explained >90% of the variability in phytoplankton concentrations in the surf-zone. On average, ~83% of B. glandula had egg lamellae at more dissipative shores compared to only 8% at more reflective. An index of potential reproductive output by barnacle populations as measured by ash free dry mass (AFDM) of egg lamellae was ~243× larger at more dissipative than at reflective shores and surf-zone phytoplankton concentrations and surf-zone width explained ~96 and 92% of the variability in this index. On average, density of M. californianus was ~2× higher at more reflective shores, but 60% of these individuals were smaller and non-reproductive compared to only 24% at the more dissipative sites. The gonad tissue mass/m2 of medium sized mussels was ~5× greater at more dissipative than reflective shores. Surf-zone phytoplankton concentrations and surf-zone width explained ~80% and 65% of the variability in individual mussel gonad mass and ~69% and 56% of the variability in mussel population gonad mass, respectively. M. californianus were out-planted to assess growth rates and, after 5 months, average body mass was ~3× greater at more dissipative than reflective shores. Surf-zone phytoplankton concentrations and width explained ~85% and 92% of the mass increase, respectively. Phytoplankton subsidies varied with surf-zone hydrodynamics altering the growth and reproductive output of two ecologically important intertidal filter feeders.
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- Carlissa D Salant
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, P.O. Box 5389, Charleston, Oregon, 97420, USA
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- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, P.O. Box 5389, Charleston, Oregon, 97420, USA
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Scrosati RA, Ellrich JA. Benthic–pelagic coupling and bottom‐up forcing in rocky intertidal communities along the Atlantic Canadian coast. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Ricardo A. Scrosati
- Department of Biology St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Canada
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- Department of Biology St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Canada
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Morgan SG, Shanks AL, MacMahan JH, Reniers AJHM, Feddersen F. Planktonic Subsidies to Surf-Zone and Intertidal Communities. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2018; 10:345-369. [PMID: 28846492 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plankton are transported onshore, providing subsidies of food and new recruits to surf-zone and intertidal communities. The transport of plankton to the surf zone is influenced by wind, wave, and tidal forcing, and whether they enter the surf zone depends on alongshore variation in surf-zone hydrodynamics caused by the interaction of breaking waves with coastal morphology. Areas with gently sloping shores and wide surf zones typically have orders-of-magnitude-higher concentrations of plankton in the surf zone and dense larval settlement in intertidal communities because of the presence of bathymetric rip currents, which are absent in areas with steep shores and narrow surf zones. These striking differences in subsidies have profound consequences; areas with greater subsidies support more productive surf-zone communities and possibly more productive rocky intertidal communities. Recognition of the importance of spatial subsidies for rocky community dynamics has recently advanced ecological theory, and incorporating surf-zone hydrodynamics would be an especially fruitful line of investigation.
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- Steven G Morgan
- Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, California 94923-0247;
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, California 93510
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- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, Charleston, Oregon 97420
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- Department of Oceanography, Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93943
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, 2628CN Delft, The Netherlands
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0209
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Shanks AL, Morgan SG. Testing the intermittent upwelling hypothesis: upwelling, downwelling, and subsidies to the intertidal zone. ECOL MONOGR 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alan L. Shanks
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology University of Oregon P.O. Box 5389 Charleston Oregon 97420 USA
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- Bodega Marine Laboratory University of California Davis 2099 Westshore Drive Bodega Bay California 94923‐0247 USA
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