Ecosystem impacts of the invasive bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (golden mussel) in South America

Boltovskoy, Demetrio; Correa, Nancy

doi:10.1007/s10750-014-1882-9

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“…However, if the quantity of this subsidy was low (30 g / 0.25 m 2 ), the effects can be positive with a higher invertebrate richness [140]. Some invasive species may be beneficial to native species, but they can interrupt important energetic subsidy flows into other ecosystems which may cause ecosystem-scale consequences [141].…”

Section: Impacts Of Landscape Disturbance On Cross-ecosystem Subsidiementioning

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Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Xiang¹,

Zhang²,

Richardson³

2017

Riparian Ecology and Conservation

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Riparian zone provides a variety of resources to organisms, including availability of water and subsidies. Water availability in riparian areas influences species distribution and trophic interaction of terrestrial food webs. Cross-ecosystem subsidies as resource flux of additional energy, nutrients, and materials benefit riparian populations and communities (e.g. plants, spiders, lizards, birds and mammals). However, aquatic ecosystems and riparian zones are prone to anthropogenic disturbances, which change water availability and affect the flux dynamics of cross-system subsidies. Yet, we still lack sufficient empirical studies assessing impacts of disturbances of land use, climate change and invasive species individually and interactively on aquatic and riparian ecosystems through influencing subsidy resource availability. In filling this knowledge gap, we can make more effective efforts to protect and conserve riparian habitats and biodiversity, and maintain riparian ecosystem functioning and services.

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Section: Impacts Of Landscape Disturbance On Cross-ecosystem Subsidiementioning

confidence: 99%

Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Xiang¹,

Zhang²,

Richardson³

2017

Riparian Ecology and Conservation

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“…In North America, for example, Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), which were transported from Europe to North America in the ballast water of ships in the mid-eighties, have been shown to negatively impact aquatic ecosystems by harming native organisms by outcompeting other filter feeders or by adhering to shells of native mussels, turtles, and crustaceans [55]. Another example of invasion is the introduction in the Parana basin of an even more dangerous species, Limnoperna fortunei, which has a glochidia larvae that can attach to fishes to be transported upstream [56]. According to The Global Invasive Species Database (GISD), however, the most aggressive alien mussel species is probably M. galloprovincialis, a native from the Mediterranean coast and the Black and Adriatic Seas.…”

Section: Impacts Of Climate Change and Pollution On Mixed Mussel Bedsmentioning

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Biomonitoring Climate Change and Pollution in Marine Ecosystems: A Review onAulacomya ater

Caza

Cledón

St‐Pierre

2016

Journal of Marine Biology

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The sedentarism and wide global distribution of the blue musselMytilus edulishave made it a useful bioindicator to assess changes in the health status of the marine ecosystem in response to pollution and other environmental stresses. Effective biomonitoring of an ecosystem requires, however, that multiple biomarkers be used to obtain an accurate measure of the cumulative effects of different sources of environmental stress. Here, we provide a first integrated review of the biological, economical, and geographical characteristics of another species of mussels, the ribbed musselAulacomya ater. We discuss the use ofAulacomya ateras a complementary biomonitor to the blue mussel to assess the impact of pollutants and climate change. Recent findings have indeed shown thatMytilus edulisandAulacomya aterhave distinctive anatomy and physiology and respond differently to environmental stress. Monitoring of mixed beds containing blue and ribbed mussels may thus represent a unique opportunity to study the effect of environmental stress on the biodiversity of marine ecosystems, most notably in the Southern hemisphere, which is particularly sensitive to climate change and where both species often cohabitate in the same intertidal zones.

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“…Numerous reports have shown that the same introduced species can have very dissimilar effects in different habitats, and even within the same habitat, with changing environmental conditions (Byers et al 2002 (Boltovskoy and Correa 2015). This approach hampers objective analyses and does little to advance our understanding of how this species interacts with its new environment.…”

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Limnoperna Fortunei

2015

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Biological Invasions represent one of those rare themes that cut across the disciplines of academic biology, while having profound environmental, philosophical, socioeconomic, and legislative implications at a global scale. There can be no doubt that biological invasions represent the single greatest threat to biodiversity past the activities of humankind itself. The implications are far reaching. Novel ecological and evolutionary forces are now directing the future expression of life itself, as native species and the communities that they comprise contend with invading species. The rules of the game have been suddenly and irrevocably changed.Invading Nature -Springer Series in Invasion Ecology is a new book series topically spanning the breadth of invasion biology. The series is of singular importance as an integrative venue focusing on the broader ecological and evolutionary issues arising from non-native species, the impacts such species have in particular environs, trends patterns and processes, as well as causes and correctives. The series seeks novel and synthetic approaches to invasions including experimental, theoretical, systematic and conceptual treatments

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Ecosystem impacts of the invasive bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (golden mussel) in South America

Cited by 117 publications

References 75 publications

Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Biomonitoring Climate Change and Pollution in Marine Ecosystems: A Review onAulacomya ater

Limnoperna Fortunei

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