Effects of solar radiation on barnacle settlement, early post-settlement mortality and community development in the intertidal zone

Gosselin, Louis A.; Jones, Lisa A.

doi:10.3354/meps08567

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“…Moreover, only 23 include an experimental component that manipulates temperature, and of these, 16 manipulated temperature indirectly by either shading or transplanting individuals across intertidal heights. Such indirect manipulations typically do not control for other potentially confounding factors, such as levels of UV exposure that can vary with intertidal height (Harley & Helmuth 2003, Gosselin & Jones 2010. Additionally, only 23 studies assessed the effect of temperature on early life history stages of invertebrates, and only 5 of these included an experimental component.…”

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Manipulating thermal stress on rocky shores to predict patterns of recruitment of marine invertebrates under a changing climate

Lathlean¹,

Minchinton²

2012

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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For rocky intertidal organisms, temperature is often considered the most influential factor governing early survival and growth. Nevertheless, our review of the literature revealed that few studies have manipulated temperatures in the field to test for effects on these critical early life history processes. Here, we present the results from a novel manipulation of substratum temperature using settlement plates of different colour (black, grey and white) and infrared measurements of temperature to test hypotheses that temperature influences the early survival and growth of recent settlers of the intertidal barnacle Tesseropora rosea. Mean surface temperatures of black and grey plates were as great as 5.8°C (on average 2.2°C) and 4.8°C (on average 1.6°C) hotter than white plates across the sampling period, respectively. Cooler, white plates had significantly greater settlement and early growth than hotter, black plates, but differences in plate temperature did not significantly influence early survival or recruitment, though patterns were consistent with thermal variability. Comparisons between grey coloured natural rock and plates indicate that grey plates thermally mimic natural rock. Nevertheless, on average, more than twice as many larvae settled on plates than on natural rock, but early post-settlement survival on natural rock was double that on plates, suggesting that this artificial surface may not adequately capture the natural variability in early life history processes. Regardless, our simple and repeatable thermal manipulation represents a useful tool for experimentally investigating the effects of temperature on recruitment processes and simulating future temperature variability associated with climate change.

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Manipulating thermal stress on rocky shores to predict patterns of recruitment of marine invertebrates under a changing climate

Lathlean¹,

Minchinton²

2012

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…During the first few hours and days after settlement, mortality can be severe with most cohorts typically experiencing 60-99% mortality Pedersen et al, 2008), but mortality is also often highly variable among cohorts. For example, two separate studies reported that during the first day after settlement, mortality of the barnacle Balanus glandula varied by up to 40% among daily cohorts (Gosselin and Jones, 2010;Gosselin and Qian, 1996), and mortality during the second day varied by up to 20% among daily cohorts (Gosselin and Qian, 1996). Similarly, mortality of Semibalanus balanoides cyprids during the 2 d period from settlement to metamorphosis differed by up to 28% among 5 daily cohorts (Jarrett, 2000).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…B. glandula densely colonizes the upper intertidal zone from approximately 2.4 m-3.0 m above mean lower low water (MLLW) (Gosselin and Jones, 2010;authors' pers. obs.).…”

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“…It builds on the earlier work of Gosselin and Jones (2010), which specifically examined the influence of solar radiation on barnacle settlement and mortality; our study expands this work by determining the influence of multiple factors simultaneously. This was accomplished by studying the intertidal barnacle B. glandula, wherein we examined the mortality of cyprids from settlement to metamorphosis as well as the mortality of juveniles up to the age of 10 d after metamorphosis.…”

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“…These include dislodgement (Dayton, 1971;Hawkins, 1983), predation Hunt and Scheibling, 1997), poor physiological condition (Jarrett, 2000), and abiotic stress (Denley and Underwood, 1979;Gosselin and Jones, 2010;Gosselin and Qian, 1997;Hunt and Scheibling, 1997). In particular, newly-settled juveniles of some invertebrate species are known to be sensitive to abiotic factors such as heat (oysters, Roegner and Mann, 1995;barnacles, Chan and Williams, 2003), desiccation (whelks, Gosselin and Chia, 1995;barnacles, Shanks, 2009;mussels, Jenewein & Gosselin, 2013), reduced salinity (barnacles, Berger et al, 2006;Thiyagarajan et al, 2007), and both ultraviolet radiation and visible light (tunicates, Hurlbut, 1993;Bingham and Reitzel, 2000;barnacles, Gosselin and Jones, 2010).…”

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Early benthic phase mortality of the barnacle Balanus glandula is influenced by Fucus spp. cover but not by weather-related abiotic conditions

Jenewein

Gosselin

2013

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

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Role of depleted initial energy reserves in early benthic phase mortality of six marine invertebrate species

Mendt

Gosselin

2021

Ecology and Evolution

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Insufficient energy reserves are widely considered to be a primary factor contributing to high rates of early benthic phase mortality among benthic marine invertebrates, but this hypothesis has been based mostly on indirect, observational evidence, and remains largely untested. We therefore examined the role of initial energy reserves in regulating survivorship and growth during the early benthic phase. Recently settled or hatched individuals of six invertebrate species were collected from natural populations, maintained without food, and their survivorship was monitored. Contrary to expectations, starved individuals of all six species had high survivorship through the critical first 10 days of the early benthic phase, with half of the species experiencing <2% mortality, and the remaining three species experiencing only 6%–12% mortality. For five of the six species, 50% mortality was reached only after ≥50 days of starvation. Additionally, no difference in short‐term survivorship was detected among starved individuals of three different size classes (a proxy for energy reserves) of N . ostrina hatchlings. Finally, the effect of different durations of delayed feeding (0–50 days) on recovery (i.e., growth and survivorship) once food was made available revealed that duration of starvation prior to feeding can nevertheless have significant longer‐term impacts on the proportion of individuals that survive or their ability to grow. Together, these findings suggest that depleted energy reserves are not a primary cause of high mortality at the start of the early benthic phase, as had previously been hypothesized. Levels of energy reserves did influence growth, however, suggesting a possible indirect influence on performance by leaving individuals vulnerable for longer periods.

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Effects of solar radiation on barnacle settlement, early post-settlement mortality and community development in the intertidal zone

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Manipulating thermal stress on rocky shores to predict patterns of recruitment of marine invertebrates under a changing climate

Manipulating thermal stress on rocky shores to predict patterns of recruitment of marine invertebrates under a changing climate

Early benthic phase mortality of the barnacle Balanus glandula is influenced by Fucus spp. cover but not by weather-related abiotic conditions

Role of depleted initial energy reserves in early benthic phase mortality of six marine invertebrate species

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