Niche overlap in mud snails (hydrobiidae): freezing tolerance

A Periphyton-Based Diet Results in an Increased Growth Rate Compared to a Detritus-Based Diet in the Invasive New Zealand Mud Snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum).

“…However, the species' ability to survive in the intermountain west of North America and in continental fresh waters of northern Europe, where mean temperatures at or below freezing persist for three to four months, suggest that it is capable of acclimating to temperatures below those encountered in its native range. In laboratory experiments, Hylleberg and Siegismund (1987) reported that NZ mudsnails were less tolerant than European Hydrobia species to temperatures less than 0  C in fresh water, but that nearly 100% survival was observed at 0  C for salinities between 5-30% for up to 7 days. I need to get full document to clarify)Analysis of life-history traits suggests that the suitable temperature range for successful invasion of the western U.S. clone is much narrower than indicated by these survival tolerance studies (Dybdahl and Kane in review).…”

“…Hence, overall fitness showed a peak at 18 o C and declined at cooler and warmer temperatures. Hylleberg and Siegismund's (1987) field surveys found winter mortalities of NZ mudsnails approaching 100% followed by rapid recolonization in northern European estuaries. Similar, seasonal density fluctuations have been documented from other European populations (e.g.…”

Can Copper‐Based Substrates Be Used to Protect Hatcheries from Invasion by the New Zealand Mudsnail?

“…Over the last decade, officials in California, Idaho, and Colorado have been forced to close or otherwise restrict activities associated with recreational fisheries and aquaculture operations affected by this organism. Given the NZMS broad tolerances of water temperature (Hylleberg and Siegismund 1987;Winterbourn 1969), water chemistry (Alonso and Camargo 2003;Leppakoski and Olenin 2000;Richards 2002) and human disturbance (Gerard and Poullain 2005;Richards et al 2001;Schreiber et al 2003), coupled with its generalist dietary (Dorgelo and Leonards 2001;Haynes and Taylor 1984;Jensen et al 2001) and habitat requirements (Heywood and Edwards 1962;van den Berg et al 1997;Weatherhead and James 2001), and explosive asexual reproduction potential (Richards 2002;Zaranko et al 1997), it is likely this organism will continue to expand its range unless effective strategies to control the NZMS spread are developed and tested.…”

“…These ranges were chosen in order to include much of the NZMS reported temperature tolerance range, reported as approximately 0° C (Hylleberg and Siegismund 1987) to 32° C (Quinn et al 1994), and to include the range of physicochemical conditions typical of water used to culture many fish species in the United States (Avault 1996).…”

Impacts of changing climate on the non-indigenous invertebrates in the northern Baltic Sea by end of the twenty-first century

“…5; Table S1) than in freshwater or higher salinities and adults show similar salinity optima for growth and feeding rates (Jacobsen and Forbes 1997). This species can be found in areas with 0-32°C temperature (Hylleberg and Siegismund 1987), but the optimal temperature for reproduction lies near 18°C (Dybdahl and Kane 2005).…”