Francesca Quell, M. Schratzberger, O. Beauchard, J. Bruggeman, T. Webb
{"title":"Biological trait profiles discriminate between native and non-indigenous marine invertebrates","authors":"Francesca Quell, M. Schratzberger, O. Beauchard, J. Bruggeman, T. Webb","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing rate of marine invasions to Western Europe in recent decades highlights the importance of addressing the central questions of invasion biology: what allows an invader to be successful, and which species are likely to become invasive? Consensus is currently lacking regarding the key traits that determine invasiveness in marine species and the extent to which invasive and indigenous species differ in their trait compositions. This limits the ability to predict invasive potential. Here we propose a method based on trait profiles which can be used to predict non-indigenous species likely to cause the greatest impact and native species with a tendency for invasion. We compiled a database of 12 key biological and life history traits of 85 non-indigenous and 302 native marine invertebrate species from Western Europe. Using multivariate methods, we demonstrate that biological traits were able to discriminate between native and non-indigenous species with an accuracy of 78%. The main discriminant traits included body size, lifespan, fecundity, offspring protection, burrowing depth and, to a lesser extent, pelagic stage duration. Analysis revealed that the typical non-indigenous marine invertebrate is a mid-sized, long-lived, highly fecund suspension feeder which either broods its offspring or has a pelagic stage duration of 1–30 days, and is either attached-sessile or burrows to a depth of 5 cm. Biological traits were also able to predict native species classed as “potentially invasive” with an accuracy of 78%. Targeted surveillance and proactive management of invasive species requires accurate predictions of which species are likely to become invasive in the future. Our findings add to the growing evidence that non-indigenous species possess a greater affinity for certain traits. These traits are typically present in the profile of “potentially invasive” native species.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77929569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of marine fouling communities on the mainland of Ecuador and in the Galapagos Islands","authors":"Dale R. Calder","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Hydroids were examined from surveys of marine fouling communities undertaken during 2018 in Ecuador. Specimens were collected on settlement panels in harbours at Salinas and La Libertad on the mainland, and at Isla San Cristóbal in the Galapagos Islands. Of 27 species in the samples, 18 were present in collections from the mainland and 14 from San Cristóbal. Most frequent in samples from the mainland were Bougainvillia cf. muscus (20 samples), Obelia microtheca (20), Clytia delicatula (19) and Pennaria disticha (10). In collections from San Cristóbal, most frequent were Obelia alternata (27), Bougainvillia cf. muscus (16), Ectopleura crocea (13) and Cirrholovenia tetranema (11). Based on genetic evidence, Ectopleura media Fraser, 1948 is assigned to the synonymy of E. crocea (L. Agassiz, 1862). In addition, a COI reference sequence is deposited for the first time for Tridentata turbinata. Male gonophores of Eudendrium breve, previously unknown, were discovered and illustrated. The cnidome of the species comprises small and large microbasic euryteles. Five of the species have not been reported before from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Of these, three (Amphinema cf. rugosum, Egmundella humilis, and Campanulinida, undetermined) were found only in the Galapagos, one (Clytia delicatula) occurred at both mainland sites and the Galapagos, and one (Opercularella sp.) was collected only from a station on the mainland. Six other species [Ectopleura integra, Coryne repens, Clytia irregularis, C. seriata, Obelia alternata (resurrected here from the synonymy of O. dichotoma), and O. microtheca] are known only from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Three of them, E. integra, C. irregularis, and C. seriata, are new to the Ecuadorian mainland. Species numbers were similar (range of 6 to 11 taxa) across all stations. One-third (nine species) were found only in Galapagos samples, whereas nearly half (13 species) were found only at mainland sites. More than half (15 species) were restricted to a single station. Previous studies, together with this work, bring the total of introduced and cryptogenic hydroid species in the Galapagos Islands to 12 (previously eight) and nine (previously five) taxa, respectively. We recognize four introduced and eight cryptogenic hydroid species from the coast of mainland Ecuador.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80472260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A population genetics approach for the study of fluridone resistance in hydrilla","authors":"L. Gettys, R. León","doi":"10.3391/AI.2021.16.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/AI.2021.16.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Fluridone-resistant hydrilla was first suspected in Florida in 1999 and was confirmed using molecular genetics techniques in 2003. Although the vast majority of species that evolve resistance to herbicides or other stressors do so through the genetic mutations that occur during sexual reproduction, all hydrilla in Florida is of the dioecious pistillate (“female”) biotype and all reproduction and spread is via vegetative means. The Hardy-Weinberg principle of constant allele frequencies (i.e., p + q = 1), used to predict allelic frequency shifts within populations due to selection, is based on a number of assumptions that are violated by species that reproduce asexually. In this paper, we address the assumptions of the model in the context of the clonally propagated species hydrilla and compare theoretical model predictions to the likely timeline of actual events that occurred in many bodies of water in Florida. The generational shifts in within-population allele frequencies from almost exclusively fluridone-susceptible to almost exclusively fluridoneresistant track well with the actual development of fluridone-resistant populations of hydrilla in Florida when considering fitness differences among fluridone resistance alleles after fluridone treatments. The present study illustrates how the Hardy-Weinberg principle of constant allele frequencies can be used as an exploratory tool to model resistance evolution in asexually reproducing species such as hydrilla.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"265 1","pages":"28-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74742947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riparian degradation, stream position in watershed, and proximity to towns facilitate invasion by Hedychium coronari","authors":"G. Bellini, F. Becker","doi":"10.3391/AI.2021.16.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/AI.2021.16.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Hedychium coronarium is an invasive plant widespread in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, especially in riparian areas. However, its distribution along streams is not continuous and the factors that are related to its local occurrence are unknown. We investigated which natural and anthropogenic drivers, particularly concerning dispersal and disturbance, facilitate establishment of H. coronarium. We sampled 148 randomly chosen riparian sites (each containing two plots) in a subtropical basin in southern Brazil and recorded presence/absence of the plant and some environmental variables in situ; other variables were extracted via GIS software. We performed a GLMM with presence/absence as the response variable, sampling site as a random factor and five predictors: intensity of ecosystem degradation, dominant type of terrestrial vegetation, river substrate size class, Strahler stream order and downstream distance to the nearest urban centre. Our results point out that invader presence is favoured by local human disturbance (high riparian degradation and presence of non-native forest), and possibly dispersal, as there is a higher H. coronarium presence probability in proximity to urban centres. Furthermore, a higher presence probability in downstream sections (higher Strahler order) might be explained by hydrologic dispersal of rhizome fragments. Our study illustrates that in the case of riparian invasions it is important to consider terrestrial and aquatic drivers, both natural and anthropogenic.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"5 1","pages":"11-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90452747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics and processes influencing recruitment of the invasive mussel Xenostrobus securis and the coexisting indigenous Mytilus galloprovincialis in north-western Spain","authors":"Agar Montes, E. Vázquez, L. Peteiro, C. Olabarria","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"24 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables.-- This is an open access article distributed under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73587655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Indo-Pacific damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos at Trinidad, southeast Caribbean","authors":"Ross Robertson","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"The Indo-West Pacific (IWP) damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos was first found in the Atlantic Ocean in 2013, on reefs in Mexico in the southwest Gulf of Mexico (GoMx). By 2018 it was known throughout most of the GoMx, but nowhere else in the Atlantic. Evidence indicates it was introduced to the GoMx by offshore petroleum infrastructure moved in water from its native range, rather than by aquarium-release or commercial shipping. There are three tropical Atlantic areas with offshore petroleum fields in addition to the GoMx: (i) at Trinidad (southeast Caribbean), (ii) at central Brazil, and (iii) at west Africa. Offshore infrastructure moves between those oilfields, and between them and support facilities in the IWP. If N. cyanomos was brought to the Atlantic by such infrastructure relocation, then it could also be at other Atlantic oilfields. To assess that possibility, we surveyed suitable habitat at Trinidad (mid 2019), and nearby Tobago (early 2020). We found N. cyanomos at all sites surveyed at Trinidad, but none at Tobago. At Trinidad this species was common on shallow reefs fringing an aquatic “parking lot” for mobile petroleum infrastructure in the estuarine Gulf of Paria. These observations show that this species has well established, isolated populations at offshore oilfields with very different environments at both ends of the Greater Caribbean and provide strong support for the petro-platform relocation hypothesis relating to its introduction. They also show that N. cyanomos has considerable ecological plasticity, which may be important for its success. The location of the Trinidad population at the head of the Caribbean Current should aid its spread via larval dispersal throughout the region.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"90 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72625222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Drost, J. Lovich, P. Rosen, M. Malone, S. Garber
{"title":"Non-native pond sliders cause long-term decline of native Sonora mud turtles: a 33-year before-after study in an undisturbed natural environment","authors":"C. Drost, J. Lovich, P. Rosen, M. Malone, S. Garber","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80387720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chogo Ogasawara, T. Imai, A. Kodama, P. Fatsi, Shaharior Hashem, E. Appiah, P. Tettey, H. Saito
{"title":"Population genetics of the non-native freshwater shrimp Palaemon sinensis (Sollaud, 1911) in Japan based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence analysis","authors":"Chogo Ogasawara, T. Imai, A. Kodama, P. Fatsi, Shaharior Hashem, E. Appiah, P. Tettey, H. Saito","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.4.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79661967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liang Peng, Xianguang Xue, Jian Liao, Jian Zhao, Quehui Tang, Qiuqi Lin, Qun Zhang, B. Han
{"title":"Potential impact of population increases of non-native tilapia on fish catch and plankton structure: a case study of Tangxi Reservoir in southern China","authors":"Liang Peng, Xianguang Xue, Jian Liao, Jian Zhao, Quehui Tang, Qiuqi Lin, Qun Zhang, B. Han","doi":"10.3391/AI.2021.16.2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/AI.2021.16.2.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"59 1","pages":"329-348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76677332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Origins of isolated populations of an Indo-Pacific damselfish at opposite ends of the Greater Caribbean","authors":"Ross Robertson","doi":"10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"The non-native Indo-West Pacific (IWP) damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos has two, recently discovered, isolated Northwest Atlantic (NWA) populations separated by ~ 3000 km of the Caribbean Sea. One of them spans the southern and northern Gulf of Mexico (GoMx) and the other is at Trinidad, in the southeast Caribbean. We compared DNA (CO1) sequences of 71 individuals from the southwest GoMx to those of 86 fish from Trinidad to determine similarities in their origins. In the native range, there are four distinct, largely allopatric haplogroups, and the two NWA populations are composed of individuals from the same two of those four haplogroups. Over 90% of individuals in each NWA population have six haplotypes shared between those populations, and no pairwise ΦST differences in population structure (relative abundances of different haplotypes) were found between the GoMx and Trinidad populations. Levels of haplotype diversity and nucleotide diversity are similarly high in the two NWA populations. The existence of two isolated populations in areas with major, long-standing offshore oilfields is consistent with those fish being transported to those areas of the NWA by floating offshore infrastructure moved from the IWP. The strong population similarities and genetic diversity of the two NWA populations indicate that both resulted from the introduction of a substantial number of individuals from the same part of the native range. However, existing genetic and other data do not allow determination of the sequence of events that led to the establishment of those populations, and whether one established first then effectively “seeded” the other or both were established concurrently as a result of a single introduction.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90361488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}