Movement of Marine Organisms. Dispersal versus Migration DISPERSAL: UNDIRECTED MIGRATION: DIRECTED,...

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Movement of Marine Organisms

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Movement of Marine Organisms

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Dispersal versus Migration

DISPERSAL: UNDIRECTED

MIGRATION: DIRECTED, RETURN SPECIFIC

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Migration Scheme

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Migration Types

• ANADROMOUS - fish live as adults in salt water, spawn in fresh water (shad, striped bass), more common in higher latitudes

• CATADROMOUS - fish live as adults in fresh water, spawn in salt water (eel), more common in lower latitudes

• DIADROMOUS = ANADROMOUS + CATADROMOUS

• FULLY OCEANIC - herring, green turtle

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Migration

Geographic specificity of migration - non-specific in some, very specific in others (green turtle, oceanic salmon)

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Migration ofthe herringin the North

Sea

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EEL MIGRATIO N - (European: Anguilla anguilla; American: Anguilla rostrata

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Larval Dispersal

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Dispersal Types in Benthic Species

• PLANKTOTROPHIC DISPERSAL - female produces many (103 to 106) small eggs, larvae feed on plankton, long dispersal time (weeks), some are very long distance (teleplanic) larvae - cross oceans

• LECITHOTROPHIC LARVAE - female produces fewer eggs (102 to 103), larger, larvae live on yolk, short dispersal time (hrs to days usually)

• DIRECT RELEASE - female lays eggs or broods young, juveniles released and crawl away

• Combinations of above? Yes, but rare

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Lecithotrophic larva: tadpole larva of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

Planktotrophic larva ofsnail Cymatium parthenopetum

Pluteus larva of an urchin

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PROBLEM OF SWIMMING LARVAE:water motion carries them away fromappropriate habitats

Shore Population

Longshore drift

Loss to offshore waters

Self-seedingeddies

Wind-drivenrecruitment

onshore

Internal waves, tidal bores

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Effect of local eddies on larval retention in a patch reef on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Two modes of beginning of larval life

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Estuarine larval adaptations - Retention

Larvae rise on the flooding tide, sink to bottom on theebbing tide: results in retention of larvae within estuary

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Rising

Falling

Fiddler Crabs - Lopez and Tankersley 2007

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Estuarine larval adaptations - movement of larvae to coastal waters, return of later stage larvae

Blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

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Epifanio and Garvine 2001

Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Sci.

v. 52: 51-77

1. Estuarine flow, southward transport

2. Mixing northward, upwelling

3. Mixing onshore from southward winds, Aug-Sept

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Larvae onto the Shelf - the Fatal Blow?

• Estuarine loss to shelf - can they come back?

• Upwelling - loss of larvae to open sea?

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Estuarine Loss - Problem of Loss from Estuarine Flow

Buoyant flow - larvae leave estuaries for open sea, good to allow larvae to feed on plankton on shelf, perhaps to avoid predation. But will they ever come back?

Possible solution - seasonal alternation of buoyant flow combined with upwelling favorable winds (summer) and shoreward favorable winds later in August and fall, bringing larvae toward shore

Natunewicz et al. 2001 Marine Ecology Progress Series 222:143-154

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Blue crab Callinectes sapidus

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Upwelling - Guaranteed loss?

• Relaxation of upwelling

• Upwelling moves toward shore

• Larvae sink below surface upwelling waters

Concholepas concholepas see Poulin et al. Limnology Oceanography 47:1248-55 (2002)

Consuelo Montero

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Settling Problems of Planktonic Larvae

• Presettling problems:

Starvation

Predation in plankton

Loss to inappropriate habitats

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Example of Effect of Starvation:Phytoplankton variation and barnacle larval success

Semibalanus balanoides settlement in a Scottish Sea Loch

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Postsettling Problems• Energetic cost of metamorphosis

• Predation

• Crowding --> mortality

Expectation of life of Semibalanus balanoides as function of crowding

Interindividual contacts per cm2

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Initial6 months12 months18 months

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Two Scales of Larval Dispersal and Settlement

1. Large scale - 10-103 km

Small scale movements to take advantage of currents, seasonal release and settlement

2. Smaller scale - 10-2 - 102 m

Positive, neg phototaxis, timing, near cues (< 10-1 m)

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Stages in the selection of substratum by planktonic larvae

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Stages:

Larvae are competent

Larvae seek bottom (photo+ photo-, timing) (Melampus bidentatus)

Larvae seek further cues

Substratum - cracks, shade

Gregarious settling - members of own species - chemical cues (oysters: peptide, Hydroides sp.), very short distances - mm

Settling on other species (Proboscidactylidae, bryozoans)

Larvae make final movements - find local spot, space from others (Spirorbis), currents good for adults (barnacle larvae)

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Barnacle larvae

Nauplius (feeding) Cypris (non-

feeding)

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk

Instructor: Recommend that you find images from the

site below

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Why disperse?

• Local extinction - to export young

• Hedging bets - spread over habitats

• Not for dispersal! Feeding in plankton

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