Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of marine invertebrate recruitment: Toward explaining “unexplained” variation

Menge, Bruce A.; Gouhier, Tarik C.; Freidenburg, Tess L.; Lubchenco, Jane

doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.003

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“…As shown in more detail in Menge et al 2011, these patterns generally were consistent across latitudinal space. To a much smaller extent than mussels, each of these two species of barnacle tends to settle in more similar abundances among sites, and have been doing so since at least 1989 at the two longest-studied sites.…”

Section: Hypothesis 2: Facilitationsupporting

confidence: 54%

“…In all cases, monthly averages of the indices were matched to monthly recruitment data lagged by one month, assuming that ocean conditions affecting larvae in the water column during one month were those that influenced recruitment in the following month. See Menge et al (2009Menge et al ( , 2011 for further details. Probabilities and adjusted R fractions of algal turfs), and seem likely to be attractants for larval mussels.…”

Section: Hypothesis 1: Predationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Potential impact of climate-related changes is buffered by differential responses to recruitment and interactions

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Freidenburg³

et al. 2011

Ecological Monographs

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Abstract. Detection of ecosystem responsiveness to climatic perturbations can provide insight into climate change consequences. Recent analyses linking phytoplankton abundance and mussel recruitment to the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) revealed a paradox. Despite large increases in mussel recruitment beginning in 2000, adult mussel responses were idiosyncratic by site and intertidal zone, with no response at one long-term site, and increases in the low zone (1.5% per year) and decreases in the mid zone (1.3% per year) at the other. What are the mechanisms underlying these differential changes? Species interactions such as facilitation by barnacles and predation are potential determinants of successful mussel colonization. To evaluate these effects, we analyzed patterns of barnacle recruitment, determined if predation rate covaried with the increase in mussel recruitment, and tested facilitation interactions in a field experiment. Neither magnitude nor season of barnacle recruitment changed meaningfully with site or zone from the 1990s to the 2000s. In contrast to the relationship between NPGO and local-scale mussel recruitment, relationships between local-scale patterns of barnacle recruitment and climate indices were weak. Despite differences in rates of prey recruitment and abundance of sea stars in 1990-1991, 1999-2000, and 2007-2008, predation rates were nearly identical in experiments before, during, and after 1999-2000. The facilitation experiment showed that mussels M. trossulus only became abundant when barnacle recruitment was allowed, when abundance of barnacles reached high abundance of ;50% cover, and when mussel recruitment was sufficiently high. Thus, in the low zone minimal changes in mussel abundance despite sharply increased recruitment rates are consistent with the hypothesis that change in adult mussel cover was buffered by the relative insensitivity of barnacle recruitment to climatic fluctuations, and a resultant lack of change in facilitation strength. Facilitation of mussels is likely important in the mid zone as well, but the dynamics of the longer-lived M. californianus at our two long-term sites appeared to be driven primarily by differential regimes of disturbance. Although rocky intertidal ecosystems may be sensitive to major climatic perturbations, predicting community responses will be difficult due to complex individualistic responses of key taxa during the recruitment stage and their influences on subsequent species interactions.

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Section: Hypothesis 2: Facilitationsupporting

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Potential impact of climate-related changes is buffered by differential responses to recruitment and interactions

Menge

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Freidenburg³

et al. 2011

Ecological Monographs

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“…Correlations are stronger when reproduction and larval processes are regulated by the same mechanisms controlling phytoplankton blooms. For instance, in upwelling regions, these correlations are expected to be stronger [74], but may not be signiicant depending on the site (e.g., Ref. [75]).…”

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Chlorophyll-a and the Supply Side Ecology: Lessons from the Rocky Shores

Mazzuco¹,

Kasten²

2017

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“…Long-term time series help to assess how natural oceanographic events, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and more specifically to the southern hemisphere, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), affect species distribution gradients. Time series analysis (wavelet) showed that relationships between recruitment and environmental indexes are more consistent annually, but multi-year periodicity is also important (MENGE et al 2011). Thus, conducting studies that link large-scale measurements to local scale measurements is important to compare and predict changes resulting from human activity.…”

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Studies on benthic communities of rocky shores on the Brazilian coast and climate change monitoring: status of knowledge and challenges

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A rocky shores working group (WG) integrated with ReBentos (Monitoring Network for Coastal Benthic Habitats; Rede de Monitoramento de Habitats Bentônicos Costeiros) was created and linked to the Coastal Zones Sub Network of the Climate Network (MCT; Sub-Rede Zonas Costeiras da Rede Clima) and to the National Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change (INCT-MC; Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Mudanças Climáticas), to study the vulnerability of benthic communities on rocky shores and the effects of environmental changes on biomes in such environments along the Brazilian coast. The synthesis presented here was one of the products of this GT, and aimed to collect and review existing knowledge on benthic communities present on rocky shores of the Brazilian coast, their associated biodiversity, and the potential of future studies to accurately predict/measure the effects of climate change on such environments and their biota.

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Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of marine invertebrate recruitment: Toward explaining “unexplained” variation

Cited by 71 publications

References 72 publications

Potential impact of climate-related changes is buffered by differential responses to recruitment and interactions

Potential impact of climate-related changes is buffered by differential responses to recruitment and interactions

Chlorophyll-a and the Supply Side Ecology: Lessons from the Rocky Shores

Studies on benthic communities of rocky shores on the Brazilian coast and climate change monitoring: status of knowledge and challenges

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