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Lonthair JK, Wegner NC, Cheng BS, Fangue NA, O'Donnell MJ, Regish AM, Swenson JD, Argueta E, McCormick SD, Letcher BH, Komoroske LM. Smaller body size under warming is not due to gill-oxygen limitation in a cold-water salmonid. J Exp Biol 2024; 227:jeb246477. [PMID: 38380449 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.246477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
Abstract
Declining body size in fishes and other aquatic ectotherms associated with anthropogenic climate warming has significant implications for future fisheries yields, stock assessments and aquatic ecosystem stability. One proposed mechanism seeking to explain such body-size reductions, known as the gill oxygen limitation (GOL) hypothesis, has recently been used to model future impacts of climate warming on fisheries but has not been robustly empirically tested. We used brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), a fast-growing, cold-water salmonid species of broad economic, conservation and ecological value, to examine the GOL hypothesis in a long-term experiment quantifying effects of temperature on growth, resting metabolic rate (RMR), maximum metabolic rate (MMR) and gill surface area (GSA). Despite significantly reduced growth and body size at an elevated temperature, allometric slopes of GSA were not significantly different than 1.0 and were above those for RMR and MMR at both temperature treatments (15°C and 20°C), contrary to GOL expectations. We also found that the effect of temperature on RMR was time-dependent, contradicting the prediction that heightened temperatures increase metabolic rates and reinforcing the importance of longer-term exposures (e.g. >6 months) to fully understand the influence of acclimation on temperature-metabolic rate relationships. Our results indicate that although oxygen limitation may be important in some aspects of temperature-body size relationships and constraints on metabolic supply may contribute to reduced growth in some cases, it is unlikely that GOL is a universal mechanism explaining temperature-body size relationships in aquatic ectotherms. We suggest future research focus on alternative mechanisms underlying temperature-body size relationships, and that projections of climate change impacts on fisheries yields using models based on GOL assumptions be interpreted with caution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joshua K Lonthair
- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
- National Research Council under contract to Fisheries Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, CA 92037-1508, USA
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- Fisheries Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla 92037-1508, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the S. O. Conte Research Laboratory, Turners Falls, MA 01376-1000, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the S. O. Conte Research Laboratory, Turners Falls, MA 01376-1000, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
- US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the S. O. Conte Research Laboratory, Turners Falls, MA 01376-1000, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the S. O. Conte Research Laboratory, Turners Falls, MA 01376-1000, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
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Andrews KR, Seaborn T, Egan JP, Fagnan MW, New DD, Chen Z, Hohenlohe PA, Waits LP, Caudill CC, Narum SR. Whole genome resequencing identifies local adaptation associated with environmental variation for redband trout. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:800-818. [PMID: 36478624 PMCID: PMC9905331 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Revised: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Aquatic ectotherms are predicted to harbour genomic signals of local adaptation resulting from selective pressures driven by the strong influence of climate conditions on body temperature. We investigated local adaptation in redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdneri) using genome scans for 547 samples from 11 populations across a wide range of habitats and thermal gradients in the interior Columbia River. We estimated allele frequencies for millions of single nucleotide polymorphism loci (SNPs) across populations using low-coverage whole genome resequencing, and used population structure outlier analyses to identify genomic regions under divergent selection between populations. Twelve genomic regions showed signatures of local adaptation, including two regions associated with genes known to influence migration and developmental timing in salmonids (GREB1L, ROCK1, SIX6). Genotype-environment association analyses indicated that diurnal temperature variation was a strong driver of local adaptation, with signatures of selection driven primarily by divergence of two populations in the northern extreme of the subspecies range. We also found evidence for adaptive differences between high-elevation desert vs. montane habitats at a smaller geographical scale. Finally, we estimated vulnerability of redband trout to future climate change using ecological niche modelling and genetic offset analyses under two climate change scenarios. These analyses predicted substantial habitat loss and strong genetic shifts necessary for adaptation to future habitats, with the greatest vulnerability predicted for high-elevation desert populations. Our results provide new insight into the complexity of local adaptation in salmonids, and important predictions regarding future responses of redband trout to climate change.
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- Kimberly R Andrews
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.,Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Aquaculture Research Institute, University of Idaho, Hagerman, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Aquaculture Research Institute, University of Idaho, Hagerman, Idaho, USA.,Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Hagerman, Idaho, USA
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Morbey YE, Pauly D. Juvenile-to-adult transition invariances in fishes: Perspectives on proximate and ultimate causation. J Fish Biol 2022; 101:874-884. [PMID: 35762307 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To bridge physiological and evolutionary perspectives on size at maturity in fishes, the authors focus on the approximately invariant ratio between the estimated oxygen supply at size at maturity (Qm ) relative to that at asymptotic size (Q∞ ) among species within a taxonomic group, and show how two important theories related to this phenomenon complement each other. Gill-oxygen limitation theory proposes a mechanistic basis for a universal oxygen supply-based threshold for maturation, which applies among and within species. On the contrary, the authors show that a generalisation of life-history theory for the invariance of size at maturity (Lm ) relative to asymptotic size (L∞ ) can provide an evolutionary rationale for an oxygen-limited maturation threshold (Qm /Q∞ ). Extending previous inter- and intraspecific analyses, the authors show that maturation invariances also occur in lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill 1818), but at both scales, theory seems to underestimate the value of the maturation threshold. They highlight some key uncertainties in the model that should be addressed to help resolve the mismatch.
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- Yolanda E Morbey
- Department of Biology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Chen Z, Bigman J, Xian W, Liang C, Chu E, Pauly D. The ratio of length at first maturity to maximum length across marine and freshwater fishes. J Fish Biol 2022; 101:400-407. [PMID: 34874555 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The prevailing determinant of maturation in fishes is thought to be a redirection of energy from growth to reproduction. Instead, the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory predicts that maturation, and thus reproduction, is induced when a fish reaches a critical ratio of oxygen supply to demand (Qm /Qmaint ). The consistency of this critical ratio has been previously documented in many fishes, but a broader test was lacking. In this study, the authors assess if this critical ratio is consistent across 132 unique fish species, as measured by the slope of the relationship between Lmax D and Lm D , where Lmax is the maximum length reached in a given population, Lm is the mean size at first maturity in that population and D is a gill-related exponent which renders the Lmax D /Lm D ratio equivalent to the Qm /Qmaint ratio. The authors found that across all species, the Lmax D /Lm D ratio was 1.40 (95% c.i. 1.38-1.42), which was not significantly different from that previously estimated across other species groups (1.35, 95% c.i. 1.22-1.53), especially when phylogenetic relationships were considered (1.25, 95% Bayesian credible interval 1.09-1.40). The consistency of the Lmax D /Lm D ratio across taxa, which expresses the difference in metabolic rate at maturity and maximum size, suggests that the scaling of gill surface area is the factor that underlies this ratio, and which triggers the maturation in fishes.
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- Zhaomin Chen
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Pauly D. Why do fish reach first maturity when they do? J Fish Biol 2022; 101:333-341. [PMID: 34487555 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- Daniel Pauly
- Sea Around Us, Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Isaak DJ, Young MK, Horan DL, Nagel D, Schwartz MK, McKelvey KS. Do metapopulations and management matter for relict headwater bull trout populations in a warming climate? Ecol Appl 2022; 32:e2594. [PMID: 35343015 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Mountain headwater streams have emerged as important climate refuges for native cold-water species due to their slow climate velocities and extreme physical conditions that inhibit non-native invasions. Species persisting in refuges often do so as fragmented, relict populations from broader historical distributions that are subject to ongoing habitat reductions and increasing isolation as climate change progresses. Key for conservation planning is determining where remaining populations will persist and how habitat restoration strategies can improve biological resilience to enhance the long-term prospects for species of concern. Studying bull trout, a headwater species in the northwestern USA, we developed habitat occupancy models using a data set of population occurrence in 991 natal habitat patches with a suite of novel geospatial covariates derived from high-resolution hydroclimatic scenarios and other sources representing watershed and instream habitat conditions, patch geometry, disturbance, and biological interactions. The best model correctly predicted bull trout occupancy status in 82.6% of the patches and included effects for: patch size estimated as habitat volume, extent of within-patch reaches <9°C mean August temperature, distance to nearest occupied patch, road density, invasive brook trout prevalence, patch slope, and frequency of high winter flows. The model was used to assess 16 scenarios of bull trout occurrence within the study streams that represented a range of restoration strategies under three climatic conditions (baseline, moderate change, and extreme change). Results suggested that regional improvements in bull trout status were difficult to achieve in realistic restoration strategies due to the pervasive nature of climate change and the limited extent of restoration actions given their high costs. However, occurrence probabilities in a subset of patches were highly responsive to restoration actions, suggesting that targeted investments to improve the resilience of some populations may be contextually beneficial. A possible strategy, therefore, is focusing effort on responsive populations near more robust population strongholds, thereby contributing to local enclaves where dispersal among populations further enhances resilience. Equally important, strongholds constituted a small numerical percentage of patches (5%-21%), yet encompassed the large majority of occupied habitat by volume (72%-89%) and their protection could have significant conservation benefits for bull trout.
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- Daniel J Isaak
- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA
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Roche DG, Raby GD, Norin T, Ern R, Scheuffele H, Skeeles M, Morgan R, Andreassen AH, Clements JC, Louissaint S, Jutfelt F, Clark TD, Binning SA. Paths towards greater consensus building in experimental biology. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:274263. [PMID: 35258604 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
In a recent editorial, the Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Experimental Biology argued that consensus building, data sharing, and better integration across disciplines are needed to address the urgent scientific challenges posed by climate change. We agree and expand on the importance of cross-disciplinary integration and transparency to improve consensus building and advance climate change research in experimental biology. We investigated reproducible research practices in experimental biology through a review of open data and analysis code associated with empirical studies on three debated paradigms and for unrelated studies published in leading journals in comparative physiology and behavioural ecology over the last 10 years. Nineteen per cent of studies on the three paradigms had open data, and 3.2% had open code. Similarly, 12.1% of studies in the journals we examined had open data, and 3.1% had open code. Previous research indicates that only 50% of shared datasets are complete and re-usable, suggesting that fewer than 10% of studies in experimental biology have usable open data. Encouragingly, our results indicate that reproducible research practices are increasing over time, with data sharing rates in some journals reaching 75% in recent years. Rigorous empirical research in experimental biology is key to understanding the mechanisms by which climate change affects organisms, and ultimately promotes evidence-based conservation policy and practice. We argue that a greater adoption of open science practices, with a particular focus on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) data and code, represents a much-needed paradigm shift towards improved transparency, cross-disciplinary integration, and consensus building to maximize the contributions of experimental biologists in addressing the impacts of environmental change on living organisms.
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- Dominique G Roche
- Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6.,Institut de Biologie, Université de Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, K9L 0G2
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- DTU Aqua: National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Aquaculture and Coastal Ecosystems, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Gulf Region, Moncton, NB, Canada, E1C 9B6
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2V 0B3
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2V 0B3
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Ulman A, Yildiz T, Demirel N, Canak O, Yemişken E, Pauly D. The biology and ecology of the invasive silver-cheeked toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), with emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean. NB 2021. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.68.71767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Invasive species pose threats to either human health or inflict ecological and/or economic damage. The silver-cheeked toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus), a Lessepsian species, is one of the most harmful species in the Mediterranean Sea, because of its potent neurotoxin, impacts on marine biodiversity, and the increased costs and labor they inflict on fishers. Since the catch and consumption of this pufferfish is prohibited by almost all countries bordering the Mediterranean, they have now expanded into the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea. We performed a comprehensive study of L. sceleratus covering ecological aspects, growth, reproduction, diet and trophic level based on samples from southwestern coasts of Turkey. The estimated growth parameters were L∞ = 88.7 cm, K = 0.27 year-1, C = 0.6 and WP = 0.1. Their sex-ratio was M/F = 1:0.69. Lagocephalus sceleratus appears to be a batch spawner with discontinuous oocyte recruitment and has different spawning seasons in the Eastern Mediterranean which seem to be based on temperature cues which get shorter in duration as one moves north from the Suez. We also report their first positive ecological trait, that they are controlling some other invasive species through their diets, such as lionfish, Red Sea goatfish, rabbitfish and longspine sea urchins, in addition to controlling themselves through cannibalism, which appears to be density-dependent. They are indeed a top predator in the region with a trophic level of 4.1. We suggest that targeted fishing using improved gear-types to reduce fishing gear damages are initiated, and that finding commercial markets for pufferfish could help to naturally fund ongoing control efforts.
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