Latitudinal gradients in growth and spawning of sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, and their relationship with temperature and photoperiod

Vinagre, Catarina; Ferreira, Teresa; Matos, Lelia; Costa, M. J.; Cabral, Henrique N.

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2008.11.015

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“…It is also an economical important species being used for human consumption, and that may be adversely affected by temperature increase (Cabral and Costa 2001;Vinagre et al 2009), particularly considering the areas that are in the southern range of their distribution and in the upper limit of their thermal tolerance. Given its pertinence, this species has been selected in recent studies focusing on this subject, including on thermal tolerance definition (Madeira et al 2012), and on the effects of climate change and heat waves on mortality, growth, condition (Vinagre et al 2012c), oxidative stress parameters (Vinagre et al 2012a) and heat shock protein expression (Vinagre et al 2012b).…”

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Effects of Temperature in Juvenile Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) Biomarker Responses and Behaviour: Implications for Environmental Monitoring

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Guilhermino

2014

Estuaries and Coasts

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The effects of temperature on European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) juveniles were investigated using a 30-day bioassay carried out at 18 and 25°C in laboratory conditions. A multiparameter approach was applied including fish swimming velocity and several biochemical parameters involved in important physiological functions. Fish exposed for four weeks to 25°C showed a decreased swimming capacity, concomitant with increased oxidative stress (increased catalase and glutathione peroxidase activities) and damage (increased lipid peroxidation levels), increased activity of an enzyme involved in energy production through the aerobic pathway (isocitrate dehydrogenase) and increased activities of brain and muscle cholinesterases (neurotransmission) compared to fish kept at 18°C. Globally, these findings indicate that basic functions, essential for juvenile seabass surviving and well performing in the wild, such as predation, predator avoidance, neurofunction and ability to face chemical stress may be compromised with increasing water temperature. This may be of particular concern if D. labrax recruitment phase in northwest European estuaries and coastal areas happens gradually in more warm environments as a consequence of global warming. Considering that the selected endpoints are generally applied in monitoring studies with different species, these findings also highlight the need of more research, including interdisciplinary and multiparameter approaches, on the impacts of temperature on marine species, and stress the importance of considering scenarios of temperature increase in environmental monitoring and in marine ecological risk assessment.

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Effects of Temperature in Juvenile Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) Biomarker Responses and Behaviour: Implications for Environmental Monitoring

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Guilhermino

2014

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“…Young juveniles appear to be larger towards the south in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but it is not clear that these size differences are due to latitudinal patterns of growth. The role of temperature variation was similarly apparent in latitudinal variation in the growth of young sea bass from four estuaries along the Portugal coast (Vinagre et al 2009). During ten years of recruitment to New Jersey estuaries, winter flounder juveniles consistently metamorphosed later, had higher densities, and grew faster in the northernmost of four estuaries (Sogard et al 2001).…”

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Otolith microstructure reveals ecological and oceanographic processes important to ecosystem-based management

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2010

Environ Biol Fish

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Information obtained from fish otoliths has been a critical component of fisheries management for decades. The nature of this information has changed over time as management goals and approaches have shifted. The earliest and still most pervasively used data are those of annual age and growth used to calculate the demographic rates of populations in single-species management strategies. Over time, the absence of simple stock-recruitment relationships has focused attention on the youngest stages, where otolith microstructure resolved on a daily basis has become a valuable tool. As management has transitioned to more ecosystem-based approaches, the need to understand ecological and oceanographic processes has been advanced through the analysis of daily otolith microstructure. Recent field examples illustrate how otolith microstructure data have been used to reveal environmental influences on larval growth, traits that lead to higher survivorship, mechanisms of larval transport, dynamics of dispersal and population connectivity, determinants of recruitment magnitude, carry-over processes between life stages, habitatspecific juvenile survival, and identification of natal sources. Daily otolith-derived data collected at an individual level are increasingly combined with data from other disciplines and incorporated into individualbased models, which in turn can form the building blocks of complex models of ecosystem dynamics. A mechanistic understanding of the ecology of young stages is particularly necessary in light of a rapidly changing ocean environment, as we need to be able to predict individual and population responses to perturbations. Otolith microstructure analysis is an important tool in our management arsenal, contributing to a broader understanding of the oceanographic and ecological processes underlying ecosystem dynamics.

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“…For flatfishes, Pauly (1994) Estuarine nurseries for marine fish stated that latitudinal trends in recruitment and population dynamics are directly related to temperature-mediated metabolic rates: at tropical latitudes, an increase in maintenance metabolism due to higher temperatures reduces the size of flatfish, resulting in smaller-sized fish than at higher latitudes. In addition, latitudinal trends in temperature also influence the duration of egg and larval stages (Minami and Tanaka, 1992;Fox et al, 2003), as well as the spawning season and growth rates (Vinagre et al, 2009). Temperature is one of the most indicative environmental features concerning climate change.…”

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Estuarine nurseries for marine fish

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Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH For Authors:If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service. Information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comWith over forty years' experience, Emerald Group Publishing is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. In total, Emerald publishes over 275 journals and more than 130 book series, as well as an extensive range of online products and services. Emerald is both COUNTER 3 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Estuaries and shallow coastal areas are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, being recognized as important nursery areas for marine fish. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of recruitment variability in marine fish, contributing to ecosystem-based management strategies of estuarine and coastal areas. Design/methodology/approach -The authors conducted a literature review, exploring the role of estuaries as nursery areas for marine fish, and analyzed the connectivity between estuaries and coastal areas, the main processes driving recruitment variability in marine fish during their pelagic (larval) and estuarine residency (juveniles) phases, and how it can be translated into variable coastal stocks. Findings -Recruitment variability in marine fish is still one of the most important issues in marine fisheries ecology. In this paper, the authors demonstrate the potential of several processes for inducing variability in recruitment, including density-independent mechanisms such as temperature, hydrodynamics, river flow and large-scale factors, as well as density-dependent processes, related with food abundance, competition and predation. Lastly, the authors evaluated the connectivity between estuaries and the ocean, and how this relationship can influence coastal stocks in the future. The main findings were analyzed in the context of climate change, which has been demonstrated to influence marine life at the individual, population and ecosystem levels. Originality/value -This paper is a valuable tool for marine researchers and stakeholders, since it summarizes some of the most important processes that drive recruitment variability in marine fish, and how this information can be used for establishing sustainable ecosystem management programmes.

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Latitudinal gradients in growth and spawning of sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, and their relationship with temperature and photoperiod

Cited by 57 publications

References 24 publications

Effects of Temperature in Juvenile Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) Biomarker Responses and Behaviour: Implications for Environmental Monitoring

Effects of Temperature in Juvenile Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) Biomarker Responses and Behaviour: Implications for Environmental Monitoring

Otolith microstructure reveals ecological and oceanographic processes important to ecosystem-based management

Estuarine nurseries for marine fish

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