Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments

Buschbaum, Christian; Dittmann, Sabine; Hong, Jin Hwa; Hwang, In-Seo; Strasser, Matthias; Thiel, Martín; Valdivia, Nelson; Yoon, San-Pil; Reise, Karsten

doi:10.1007/s10152-008-0139-2

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“…Daarnaast vormen zij door de stabiele structuur een hard substraat in een verder 'zachte' omgeving. Door deze eigenschappen bieden mosselbanken structuur en leefruimte aan andere soorten (Nehls et al, 1997;Gutiérrez et al, 2003;Buschbaum et al, 2009). Op de mosselen zelf groeien zeeanemonen en andere soorten die graag op hard substraat voorkomen.…”

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Ontwikkeling van enkele mosselbanken in de Nederlandse Waddenzee, situatie 2016

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Meijboom²,

Wal³

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Ontwikkeling van enkele mosselbanken in de Nederlandse Waddenzee, situatie 2016

Glorius¹,

Meijboom²,

Wal³

et al. 2017

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“…Several cases of habitat destruction were caused by fishery (Reise et al 1989;Piersma et al 2001), including disturbance of the upper bottom layer and complete removal of oyster and mussel banks. Mussel (and oyster) beds are usually richer in species than their surroundings, as these structures offer locally hard substrates to species that cannot live on the surrounding soft sediments (Buschbaum et al 2009). The few sampling sites on Balgzand that usually included mussel beds showed higher species densities than other sites.…”

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Increasing species richness of the macrozoobenthic fauna on tidal flats of the Wadden Sea by local range expansion and invasion of exotic species

Dekker

2010

Helgol Mar Res

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A 40-y series of consistently collected samples (15 fixed sampling sites, constant sampled area of 15 9 0.95 m 2 , annual sampling only in late-winter/earlyspring seasons, and consistent sieving and sorting procedures; restriction to 50 easily recognizable species) of macrozoobenthos on Balgzand, a tidal flat area in the westernmost part of the Wadden Sea (The Netherlands), revealed significantly increasing trends of species richness. Total numbers of species annually encountered increased from *28 to *38. Mean species density (number of species found per sampling site) increased from *13 to *18 per 0.95 m 2 . During the 40 years of the 1970-2009 period of observation, 4 exotic species invaded the area: (in order of first appearance) Ensis directus, Marenzelleria viridis, Crassostrea gigas, and Hemigrapsus takanoi. Another 5 species recently moved to Balgzand from nearby (subtidal) locations. Together, these 9 new species on the tidal flats explained by far most of the increase in total species numbers, but accounted for only one-third of the observed increase in species density (as a consequence of the restricted distribution of most of them). Species density increased particularly by a substantial number of species that showed increasing trends in the numbers of tidal flat sites they occupied. Most of these wider-spreading species were found to suffer from cold winters. During the 40-y period of observation, winter temperatures rose by about 2°C and cold winters became less frequent. The mean number of cold-sensitive species found per site significantly increased by almost 2 per 0.95 m 2 . Among the other species (not sensitive to low winter temperatures), 6 showed a rising and 2 a declining trend in number of occupied sites, resulting in a net long-term increase in species density amounting to another gain of 1.6 per 0.95 m 2 . Half of the 50 studied species did not show such long-term trend, nor were invaders. Thus, each of 3 groups (local or alien invaders/winter-sensitive species/other increasing species) contributed to a roughly similar extent to the overall increase in species density.

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“…In the Wadden Sea adult M. edulis readily reaches lengths up to 65 mm (e.g., Buschbaum et al 2008). To what extent the oysters affect the survival of the larger individuals of M. edulis is unknown.…”

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Indirect effects of invasive species affecting the population structure of an ecosystem engineer

2015

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Citation: Waser, A. M., W. Splinter, and J. van der Meer. 2015. Indirect effects of invasive species affecting the population structure of an ecosystem engineer. Ecosphere 6(7):109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00437.1Abstract. Species invasion is of increasing concern as non-native species often have negative impacts on ecosystems that they were introduced to. Invaders negatively affect the abundance of native species due to direct interactions like predation and competition. Additionally, invaders may benefit native biota by imposing indirect effects on resident species interactions. Invaders indirectly affect resident species via both density-mediated indirect interactions (DMIIs) and trait-mediated indirect interactions (TMIIs). Previous studies on these different indirect interactions have largely examined the effects on structuring ecological systems, with paying little attention to the role of body size. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that an invasive habitat modifier of European coastal waters, the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), alters the population structure of native mussels (Mytilus edulis) by modifying the size specific predator-prey interaction between the mussels and the shore crab (Carcinus maenas). In laboratory split-plot experiments, the presence of Pacific oysters reduced the mortality of unconditioned mussels as well as mussels that were acclimatized in presence of predatory cues, while being exposed to predation by crabs of two different size classes. The reduction in mortality was size-dependent both in terms of the predators and the prey. The presence of oysters notably reduced mussel mortality in presence of small crabs, while the mortality rate in presence of big crabs was less affected. Mussels that benefited the most by the presence of oysters were those of recruitment stages, smaller than 20 mm in shell length. Our results suggest that oysters cause a strong shift in the population structure of M. edulis, reducing particularly the mortality of smaller sized mussels.

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Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments

Cited by 133 publications

References 43 publications

Ontwikkeling van enkele mosselbanken in de Nederlandse Waddenzee, situatie 2016

Ontwikkeling van enkele mosselbanken in de Nederlandse Waddenzee, situatie 2016

Increasing species richness of the macrozoobenthic fauna on tidal flats of the Wadden Sea by local range expansion and invasion of exotic species

Indirect effects of invasive species affecting the population structure of an ecosystem engineer

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