Population dynamics, secondary production and calcification in a Mediterranean population of Ditrupa arietina (Annelida:Polychaeta)

Medernach, L; Jordana, Esther; Grémare, Antoine; Nozais, Christian; Charles, François; Amouroux, Jean-Michel

doi:10.3354/meps199171

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“…The calcimass method (carbonate standing stock) is the most frequently used (Migné et al 1998;Medernach et al 2000;Chauvaud et al 2003). However, the alkalinity-anomaly technique (Smith and Key 1975;Chisholm and Gattuso 1991) based on measurement of total alkalinity changes in a closed circuit is considered the most convenient for short-duration experiments on isolated organisms (Gattuso et al 1999).…”

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Respiration, calcification, and excretion of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata L.: Implications for carbon, carbonate, and nitrogen fluxes in affected areas

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We measured in situ respiration, calcification, and excretion of the slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata L., and considered both seasonal variations and individual size, to estimate the effects of this exotic species on annual budgets of carbon, carbonate, and nitrogen in the Bay of Brest (France). Respiration, calcification, and excretion rates changed significantly with size and season. Oxygen consumption varied from 6 to 63 mmol O 2 g 21 ash-free dry weight (AF dry wt) h 21 , which corresponded to a carbon dioxide release that ranged from 2 to 44 mmol CO 2 g 21 AF dry wt h 21 . Maximum respiration rates were observed in summer, and minimum rates were observed in winter. CaCO 3 production ranged from 24 to 44 mmol CaCO 3 g 21 AF dry wt h 21 from winter to summer, respectively. Ammonium release varied from 0.7 to 3.1 mmol NH þ 4 g 21 AF dry wt h 21 , with the highest excretion rate in spring. Total carbon release by C. fornicata in highly colonized zones in the Bay of Brest averaged 290 g C m 22 yr 21 , carbonate production was ,515 g CaCO 3 m 22 yr 21 , and nitrogen production by ammonium excretion was ,25 g N m 22 yr 21 . C. fornicata respiration and excretion account for 55% and 85% of the benthic community respiration and excretion, respectively. These results illustrate the importance of this invasive species to carbon and nitrogen cycles, including biogenic carbonate production, in coastal ecosystems.

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Respiration, calcification, and excretion of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata L.: Implications for carbon, carbonate, and nitrogen fluxes in affected areas

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“…Tubes of free-lying Recent Ditrupa form shell banks (density up to 1000 ind. m -2 ) on continental shelves in temperate to tropical seas all over the world (ten Hove and van den Hurk, 1993), and D. arietina (O. F. Müller, 1776) significantly contributes to calcite sediment production in temperate seas (Medernach et al, 2000). Both serpulid reefs and banks produced by free-lying forms are known in the fossil record.…”

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Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time

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Ippolitov, A.P., Vinn, O., Kupriyanova, E.K. and Jäger, M. 2014. Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 123-159.Although the fossil record of annelids in general is poor, calcareous tube-building Serpulidae are a notable exception. The "stumbling block" of understanding the serpulid fossil record is obtaining reliable taxonomic interpretations of fossil tubes based on morphology. Luckily, serpulid tubes demonstrate high variety of ultrastructures and nonuniform mineralogical composition, which can be used as new tools for decrypting the fossil record. Ancient Late Ediacaran (580-541 Ma) and Paleozoic (541-252 Ma) rocks contain diverse tubicolous fossils that have often been erroneously interpreted as annelids, and serpulids, in particular. Palaeozoic to Middle Jurassic coiled spirorbiform tubes, often referred to as Spirorbis, had been shown to be microconchids, a group of probable lophophorate affinity. The most ancient records of unequivocal serpulids date back to the Middle Triassic (~244 Ma) of the Mesozoic, and from the Earliest Jurassic (~200 Ma) fossil serpulids become common. From the latest Jurassic (~146 Ma) serpulids colonised hydrocarbon seep environments and possibly also penetrated the deep sea. Concerted efforts of paleontologists and zoologists are needed for further understanding of serpulid evolutionary history. The serpulid fossil record can become a valuable instrument for calibration of "molecular clocks" in polychaetes, which would allow dating not only divergence events in serpulids, but also in annelid groups that lack a representative fossil record.

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“…These studies identified long-term changes in several communities between 1967/68, 1994 and 2003. These changes involved temporal fluctuations in: (1) total species richness, and (2) abundances of dominant species such as the polychaetes Ditrupa arietina, Scoloplos armiger and Notomastus latericeus. Moreover, by coupling the studies of changes in benthic macrofauna composition with autoecological studies of D. arietina (Medernach et al, 2000), they suggested that the NAO could drive changes in benthic macrofauna composition (Grémare et al, 1998a;Labrune et al, 2007b). Positive values of NAO are typically associated with stronger-than-average westerlies and storms over Northern…”

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“…Based on: (1) long term comparisons (i.e., 1967/68, 1994 and 2003) of benthic macrofauna composition achieved at a limited number of stations in the Bay of Banyuls-surMer (Grémare et al, 1998a;Labrune et al, 2007b), and (2) autoecologial studies carried out on the polychaete Ditrupa arietina (Medernach et al, 2000;Charles 2006), temporal changes in both LSF and LSM benthic macrofauna compositions are currently attributed to fluctuations in the frequency of storms in relation with the NAO (Labrune et al, 2007b) as already proposed in the North Sea (Kröncke et al, 1998(Kröncke et al, , 2001Tunberg and Nelson, 1998).…”

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Long-term (1998 vs. 2010) large-scale comparison of soft-bottom benthic macrofauna composition in the Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean Sea

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et al. 2018

Journal of Sea Research

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Population dynamics, secondary production and calcification in a Mediterranean population of Ditrupa arietina (Annelida:Polychaeta)

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

Respiration, calcification, and excretion of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata L.: Implications for carbon, carbonate, and nitrogen fluxes in affected areas

Respiration, calcification, and excretion of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata L.: Implications for carbon, carbonate, and nitrogen fluxes in affected areas

Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time

Long-term (1998 vs. 2010) large-scale comparison of soft-bottom benthic macrofauna composition in the Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean Sea

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