Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05040.16a
Yamila González Giorgis, María Cruz Sueiro, F. Márquez
{"title":"Phenotypic plasticity at fine-grained spatial scales: the scorched mussel Perumytilus purpuratus growing on Patagonian rocky salt-marshes","authors":"Yamila González Giorgis, María Cruz Sueiro, F. Márquez","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05040.16a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05040.16a","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding phenotypic plasticity of species at different spatial scales is vital in the current context of an increasing pace of environmental changes. Through this knowledge, it is possible to predict their potential to adapt and/or evolve in face of new environmental conditions such as climate change, and/or to understand their ecological range expansion. In Patagonian rocky salt-marshes, one of the most abundant invertebrate species is the scorched mussel Perumytilus purpuratus. In this system, this mussel can be found inhabiting both vegetated and non-vegetated patches, which differ in critical environmental conditions. We performed a field study evaluating whether mussels growing in vegetated patches differ in shell shape from those growing in adjacent non-vegetated patches. We sampled individuals from both patch types and assessed their shell shape and size using geometric morphometrics. The results showed that mussels from vegetated patches had shells that were more dorsoventrally expanded, anterodorsally restricted and globose in shape than those from non-vegetated patches, which showed the opposite traits resulting in a more elongated shell. The differences found could be driven by the different conditions of temperature, desiccation rate, wave action and population density to which mussels are exposed in each patch type. These results revealed the striking phenotypic plasticity of shell form of this native species at a fine-grained scale, which could be one of the explanations for its success in its ecological range expansion.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47451790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05046.30a
Roi Martínez-Escauriaza, M. Hermida, S. Villasante, L. Gouveia, N. Gouveia, Pablo Pita
{"title":"Importance of recreational shore angling in the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal (northeast Atlantic)","authors":"Roi Martínez-Escauriaza, M. Hermida, S. Villasante, L. Gouveia, N. Gouveia, Pablo Pita","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05046.30a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05046.30a","url":null,"abstract":"1 Oceanic Observatory of Madeira, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação. Edifício Madeira Tecnopolo, Piso 0, Caminho da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. (RM-E) (Corresponding author). E-mail: roimartinez@hotmail.com. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1219-9937 (MH) E-mail: margarida.hermida@mare-centre.pt. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-0259-109X 2 Direção de Serviços de Investigação – DSI, Direção Regional das Pescas – DRP-RAM, Estrada da Pontinha, CP 9004562, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. (LG) E-mail: lidia.gouveia@gov.madeira.pt. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-6904-7673 (NG) E-mail: nuno.gouveia@madeira.gov.pt. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4633-4674 3 MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), Edifício Madeira Tecnopolo, Caminho da Penteada, 9020-105, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. 4 Campus Do Mar, International Campus of Excellence, Spain. (SV) E-mail: sebastian.villasante@usc.es. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6296-4479 (PP) E-mail: pablo.pita@usc.es. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9273-1481 5 Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Av. Angel Echevarry s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41939853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05053.17a
P. Rehm, S. Thatje, F. Leese, C. Held
{"title":"Phylogenetic relationship within Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) and genetic variability of two Antarctic species of the family Leuconidae","authors":"P. Rehm, S. Thatje, F. Leese, C. Held","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05053.17a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05053.17a","url":null,"abstract":"Phylogenetic hypotheses for the peracarid order Cumacea are scarce and have not provided a solution to the full extent. In the present study, a fragment of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA was used to erect a phylogenetic hypothesis for three cumacean families, Diastylidae, Bodotriidae and Leuconidae, along with intra-family relationships of the latter. The Cumacea resolved monophyletic with tanaids and isopods as outgroup taxa. The Diastylidae were the only family with good support for monophyly. The genus Leucon resolved paraphyletic, whereas the subgenus Crymoleucon was monophyletic. Furthermore, the genetic structure was analysed for two leuconid species, Leucon antarcticus Zimmer, 1907 and L. intermedius Mühlenhardt-Siegel, 1996, from the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea. The two species showed different patterns of intraspecific genetic variability. In contrast to L. intermedius, a bimodal distribution of pairwise genetic distances was observed for L. antarcticus, which is correlated with geographical and depth distributions between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. Although a clear evaluation of cryptic speciation in these species requires additional work on more specimens from more geographic regions and broader depth ranges, differences shown in the sequences of 16S rDNA can only be explained by genetic separation of populations between the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea for an extended period of time.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46248933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05051.14a
Everton Giachini Tosetto, S. Neumann-Leitão, M. Nogueira Júnior
{"title":"New species of Eirenidae (Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from the Amazonian coast (northern Brazil)","authors":"Everton Giachini Tosetto, S. Neumann-Leitão, M. Nogueira Júnior","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05051.14a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05051.14a","url":null,"abstract":"1 Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Arquitetura, S/N, 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil. (EGT) (Corresponding author) E-mail: evertontosetto@hotmail.com. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-0942 (SN-L) E-mail: sigridnl@uol.com.br. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7878-8772 2 Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. (MNJ) E-mail: miodeli@gmail.com. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5409-8312","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49478309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05029.15a
P. Berrebi, Marielle Trébuchon
{"title":"Distribution and hybridization of two sedentary gobies (Pomatoschistus microps and Pomatoschistus marmoratus) in the lagoons of southern France","authors":"P. Berrebi, Marielle Trébuchon","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05029.15a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05029.15a","url":null,"abstract":"Pomatoschistus marmoratus and Pomatoschistus microps are small sedentary gobies inhabiting the lagoons of European Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts. Along the French Mediterranean coast their respective geographical distribution is not precisely known, in part because they are cryptic species. In this study, 512 gobies of both species were caught as 17 samples in 12 lagoons of the Gulf of Lion on the French Mediterranean coast. They were genotyped at six microsatellite loci and investigated statistically using multidimensional analyses, Bayesian assignment (Structure) and NewHybrids classification. This allowed the contrasted distribution of each species (P. microps in the east, P. marmoratus in the west) to be described, with several exceptions. Neither geographic structure nor isolation by distance was detected among differentiated populations of each species. The suggested mechanism is a deep sedentary behaviour associated with foundations following extinctions. The two species are sympatric or even in syntopy in five or six sampled lagoons producing rare fertile hybrids.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44460833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05107.30a
M. Estrada, M. Alcaraz
{"title":"The publications of Ramon Margalef in Investigación Pesquera and Scientia Marina: The beginnings of marine ecology in the CSIC","authors":"M. Estrada, M. Alcaraz","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05107.30a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05107.30a","url":null,"abstract":"Ramon Margalef López (1919-2004) was one of the most prominent scientists of the 20th century in the fields of limnology, oceanography and ecology. His contributions to theoretical ecology, which won him international recognition, were based on a great deal of laboratory and field work and on extensive observations of the natural world, a passion that he acquired at a young age. Some of the early papers of Ramon Margalef appeared in the Publicaciones del Instituto de Biología Aplicada, but as of 1955 many of his marine studies were published in Investigación Pesquera, the journal of the Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras of the CSIC in Barcelona. He also wrote several articles for Scientia Marina, the journal that replaced Investigación Pesquera in 1989 after the Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras became the Institut de Ciències del Mar. The present article aims to give an overview of Margalef’s contributions to these journals to mark the celebration in 2019 of the 100th anniversary of his birth.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46986201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05091.24a
J. Gili, B. Vendrell-Simón, W. Arntz, F. Sabater, J. Ros
{"title":"The benthos: the ocean’s last boundary?","authors":"J. Gili, B. Vendrell-Simón, W. Arntz, F. Sabater, J. Ros","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05091.24a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05091.24a","url":null,"abstract":"Benthic communities depend on receiving much of their food from the water column. While sinking, particles are transformed in a discontinuous process and are temporally retained in transitional physical structures, which act as boundaries and contribute to their further transformation. Motile organisms are well-acquainted with boundaries. The number, width and placement of boundaries are related to the degree of particle degradation or transformation. Progressively deepening within each boundary, particles are degraded according to their residence time in the discontinuity and the activity of the organisms temporarily inhabiting that boundary. Finally, particles reach the seafloor and represent the main food source for benthic organisms; the quality and quantity of this food have a strong impact on the development of benthic communities. However, benthic communities not only play the role of a sink of matter: they act as an active boundary comparable to other oceanic boundaries, in accordance with the boundary concept proposed by the ecologist Ramon Margalef.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05139.05a
V. Sbragaglia, R. Arlinghaus
{"title":"Conservation bottom-up initiatives in marine recreational spearfishing suggest the emergence of positive attitudes towards conservation","authors":"V. Sbragaglia, R. Arlinghaus","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05139.05a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05139.05a","url":null,"abstract":"We show that marine recreational spearfishers voluntarily organize bottom-up conservation actions. The main goals of these actions are to provide support to research in monitoring fish assemblages, tracking biological invasions or mitigating impacts on the environment, such as those stemming from pollution and littering. We show that such initiatives started more than 20 years ago and are now facilitated by social media networking. We argue that the emergence of bottom-up conservation actions in marine recreational spearfishers should be encouraged, supported and integrated into participatory management plans. This is important to mitigate the potential negative impacts of marine recreational spearfishing and to catalyse broader civil actions for conservation of marine ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47702420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05086.21a
Nastassia Uluduz, Alexey Yanchukov, M. Sözen
{"title":"Seasonal dynamics of occurrence and group size of three species of cetaceans (Delphinidae and Phocoenidae) on the southwestern coast of the Black Sea","authors":"Nastassia Uluduz, Alexey Yanchukov, M. Sözen","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05086.21a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05086.21a","url":null,"abstract":"Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, 67100 İncivez/Zonguldak, Turkey. (NU) (Corresponding author) E-mail: nastassia.uluduz@gmail.com. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7366-0267 (AY) E-mail: yawa33@gmail.com. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9613-8770 (MS) E-mail: spalaxtr@hotmail.com. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1911-605X","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43331265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scientia MarinaPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05081.20a
M. Rajeeshkumar, Kannamkulathil Vijayan Aneesh Kumar, J. L. Otero-Ferrer, A. Lombarte, M. Hashim, N. Saravanane, Veloorkirakathil Narayanan Sanjeevan, Mallavarapu Venkata Ramana Murthy, Víctor Manuel Tuset
{"title":"Differentiating morpho-functional patterns of the five most common deep-sea benthic anglerfishes (Lophiiformes) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands (eastern Indian Ocean)","authors":"M. Rajeeshkumar, Kannamkulathil Vijayan Aneesh Kumar, J. L. Otero-Ferrer, A. Lombarte, M. Hashim, N. Saravanane, Veloorkirakathil Narayanan Sanjeevan, Mallavarapu Venkata Ramana Murthy, Víctor Manuel Tuset","doi":"10.3989/scimar.05081.20a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05081.20a","url":null,"abstract":"Anglerfishes are widely distributed from shallow to deep-water habitats occupying different ecological niches. To explain this adaptability, we performed a morpho-functional study on common benthic anglerfishes inhabiting the Indian deep-sea waters. Sensory capabilities of species were examined using the morphology and morphometry of sagitta otoliths (related to detection sound and hearing) and eye size (related to visual communication). We also performed an analysis of the degree of functional niche overlap using fish body traits to understand the coexistence of species. Otoliths showed a morphological pattern similar to that of other anglerfishes: an archaesulcoid sulcus acusticus and variability in the irregularity of the dorsal margin. This last feature affected the allometric relationships between the otolith morphometry and fish length, as well as the otolith relative sizes of each species. The findings suggested that bigger otoliths are associated with the increase of depth distribution of species up to 1000 m, from which it decreases. Our hypothesis is that anglerfishes with irregular otolith shapes could be linked to more nocturnal feeding behaviour because they were characterized by greater eye sizes. The results also indicated interspecific significant differences in functional traits providing a low niche overlap. Therefore, our study supports the hypothesis of an environmental and ecological specialization of benthic anglerfishes.","PeriodicalId":21600,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}