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Marks AN, Gray MW, Nichols K, Zacherl DC. In situ habitat clearance rates and particle size preference of indigenous Olympia oysters (Ostrea lurida) and non-native Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) in North American Pacific coast estuaries. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169267. [PMID: 38092205 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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The Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, is the target of many restoration projects along estuaries on the North American Pacific coast, while the non-native Pacific oyster, Magallana gigas, dominates oyster aquaculture globally. Both species provide filtration functions that were investigated in three California bays using a whole-habitat, in situ approach, a laboratory particle selection experiment, and a regional physiological comparison. Measurements of chlorophyll α, temperature, salinity, and turbidity upstream and downstream, as well as point samples of seston total particulate matter and organic content to estimate habitat clearance rates (HCR, L hr-1 m-2) were collected. From February 2018 to June 2019, twenty-two trials were conducted across four sites. HCRs were highly variable within and among sites, ranging from site averages of -464 to 166 L hr-1 m-2, and not significantly different among sites, indicating field filtration performance of O. lurida habitat and M. gigas aquaculture is similar. Using a random forest regression, site was the most important predictor of HCR, with a variable importance score of 25.7 % (SD = 4.6 %). O. lurida and M. gigas had significantly different particle size selection preferences, likely affecting the quality of their filtration. This study's findings suggest that restoring O. lurida habitat may provide similar filtration benefits as M. gigas aquaculture, but the unique hydrodynamics and food quality of individual bays, as well as regional differences in filter feeder communities, must be considered in managing oyster habitat for filtration functions.
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- Althea N Marks
- Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton 92831, CA, USA; School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, WA, USA.
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- Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge 21613, MD, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton 92831, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton 92831, CA, USA
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Boltovskoy D, Guiaşu R, Burlakova L, Karatayev A, Schlaepfer MA, Correa N. Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits. AMBIO 2022; 51:1786-1799. [PMID: 35191001 PMCID: PMC9200917 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01707-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The economic costs of non-indigenous species (NIS) are a key factor for the allocation of efforts and resources to eradicate or control baneful invasions. Their assessments are challenging, but most suffer from major flaws. Among the most important are the following: (1) the inclusion of actual damage costs together with various ancillary expenditures which may or may not be indicative of the real economic damage due to NIS; (2) the inclusion of the costs of unnecessary or counterproductive control initiatives; (3) the inclusion of controversial NIS-related costs whose economic impacts are questionable; (4) the assessment of the negative impacts only, ignoring the positive ones that most NIS have on the economy, either directly or through their ecosystem services. Such estimates necessarily arrive at negative and often highly inflated values, do not reflect the net damage and economic losses due to NIS, and can significantly misguide management and resource allocation decisions. We recommend an approach based on holistic costs and benefits that are assessed using likely scenarios and their counter-factual.
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- Demetrio Boltovskoy
- IEGEBA, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón 2, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Biology Program, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M6 Canada
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- Great Lakes Center, SUNY Buffalo State, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222 USA
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- Great Lakes Center, SUNY Buffalo State, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222 USA
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard Carl-Vogt 66, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Servicio de Hidrografía Naval y Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Sede Educativa Universitaria, Facultad de la Armada, UNDEF, Av. Montes de Oca 2124, 1271 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Howie AH, Bishop MJ. Contemporary Oyster Reef Restoration: Responding to a Changing World. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.689915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Globally, there is growing interest in restoring previously widespread oyster reefs to reinstate key ecosystem services such as shoreline protection, fisheries productivity and water filtration. Yet, since peak expiration of oysters in the 1800s, significant and ongoing environmental change has occurred. Estuaries and coasts are undergoing some of the highest rates of urbanization, warming and ocean acidification on the planet, necessitating novel approaches to restoration. Here, we review key design considerations for oyster reef restoration projects that maximize the probability that they will meet biological and socio-economic goals not only under present-day conditions, but into the future. This includes selection of sites, and where required, substrates and oyster species and genotypes for seeding, not only on the basis of their present and future suitability in supporting oyster survival, growth and reproduction, but also based on their match to specific goals of ecosystem service delivery. Based on this review, we provide a road map of design considerations to maximize the success of future restoration projects.
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Vozzo ML, Mayer-Pinto M, Bishop MJ, Cumbo VR, Bugnot AB, Dafforn KA, Johnston EL, Steinberg PD, Strain EMA. Making seawalls multifunctional: The positive effects of seeded bivalves and habitat structure on species diversity and filtration rates. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 165:105243. [PMID: 33476978 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Revised: 12/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The marine environment is being increasingly modified by the construction of artificial structures, the impacts of which may be mitigated through eco-engineering. To date, eco-engineering has predominantly aimed to increase biodiversity, but enhancing other ecological functions is arguably of equal importance for artificial structures. Here, we manipulated complexity through habitat structure (flat, and 2.5 cm, 5 cm deep vertical and 5 cm deep horizontal crevices) and seeding with the native oyster (Saccostrea glomerata, unseeded and seeded) on concrete tiles (0.25 m × 0.25 m) affixed to seawalls to investigate whether complexity (both orientation and depth of crevices) influences particle removal rates by suspension feeders and colonisation by different functional groups, and whether there are any ecological trade-offs between these functions. After 12 months, complex seeded tiles generally supported a greater abundance of suspension feeding taxa and had higher particle removal rates than flat tiles or unseeded tiles. The richness and diversity of taxa also increased with complexity. The effect of seeding was, however, generally weaker on tiles with complex habitat structure. However, the orientation of habitat complexity and the depth of the crevices did not influence particle removal rates or colonising taxa. Colonisation by non-native taxa was low compared to total taxa richness. We did not detect negative ecological trade-offs between increased particle removal rates and diversity and abundance of key functional groups. Our results suggest that the addition of complexity to marine artificial structures could potentially be used to enhance both biodiversity and particle removal rates. Consequently, complexity should be incorporated into future eco-engineering projects to provide a range of ecological functions in urbanised estuaries.
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- M L Vozzo
- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2109, Australia.
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, 2006, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Building 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
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Lukwambe B, Nicholaus R, Zhao L, Yang W, Zhu J, Zheng Z. Microbial community and interspecies interaction during grazing of ark shell bivalve (Scapharca subcrenata) in a full-scale bioremediation system of mariculture effluents. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2020; 158:104956. [PMID: 32217302 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2019] [Revised: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A novel biological approach using ark shell bivalves as potential species for remediation of effluents was studied to determine the microbial community interspecies interaction and nutrient cycling in a restoration system of mariculture effluents. A field study showed that Scapharca subcrenata was the main driver of the microbial community's interspecies-interaction (PERMANOVA, R = 0.0572, P = 0.005) in the treatment zone (TZ). Analysis of co-occurrence networks based on random matrix theory (RMT) indicated that the network's complexity parameters were enhanced in the TZ and disrupted in the control zone (CZ) due to eutrophic disturbances. Concurrently, the TZ was correlated with more profound network modifications (i.e., higher modularity, total nodes (n), cohesion, and proportion of positive links), suggesting that S. subcrenata influenced microbial interspecies interactions in the system. Similarly, the co-occurring networks of generalists Proteobacteria (OTU2037) at genus Anaerospora and Actinobacteria (OTU9660) at genus Candidatus aquiluna for anaerobic ammonia-oxidation (ANAMMOX) were highly significant in the TZ. The top-down and bottom-up forces of S. subcrenata influenced the removal efficiency of nitrogenous compounds by reducing 81.51% of nitrite (NO2--N), 84.61% of total ammonium nitrogen (TAN) and 72.78% of nitrate (NO3--N). Generally, the introduction of ark shell bivalve (S. subcrenata) to the system as a biofilter provides a very low-cost bioremediation technology that could be one of the best restorations and remediation tools for mariculture effluents.
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- Betina Lukwambe
- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China; Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China; Department of Natural Sciences, Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Mbeya, Tanzania
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
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