Zooplankton retention in the estuarine transition zone of the St. Lawrence Estuary

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2621-2631

  Simons, Rachel D ^a,d   Monismith, Stephen G ^a   Johnson, Ladd E ^b   Winkler, Gesche ^b   Saucier, François J ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCULATION MODELING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; RETENTION; SALINITY; SWIMMING; TRANSITION ZONE; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

DREISSENA POLYMORPHA;

EID: 33845414129     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2621     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. AHRENS, J. H., AND U. DIETER. 1973. Extensions of Forsythe's method for random sampling from the normal distribution. Math Comput 27: 927-937.
2. ARTHUR, J. A., AND M. D. BALL. 1979. Factors influencing the entrapment of suspended material in the San Francisco Bay-delta estuary, p. 143-174. In T. J. Conomos [ed.], San Francisco Bay: The urbanized estuary: 58th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
3. BARNARD, C., J. J. FRENETTE, AND W. F. VINCENT. 2003. Planktonic invaders of the St Lawrence estuarine transition zone: Environmental factors controlling the distribution of zebra mussel veligers. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60: 1245-1257.
4. BARTSCH, J. 1993. Application of a circulation and transport model system to the dispersal of herring larvae in the North-Sea. Cont. Shelf Res. 13: 1335-1361.
5. BATCHELDER, H. P., C. A. EDWARDS, AND T. M. POWELL. 2002. Individual-based models of copepod populations in coastal upwelling regions: Implications of physiologically and environmentally influenced diel vertical migration on demographic success and nearshore retention. Prog. Oceanogr. 53: 307-333.
6. BOUSFIELD, E. L., G. FILTEAU, M. O'NIELL, AND P. GENTES. 1975. Population dynamics of the zooplankton in the middle St Lawrence Estuary, p. 325-351. In L. E. Cronin [ed.], Estuarine research. Academic Press.
7. CASULLI, V., AND E. CATTANI. 1994. Stability, accuracy and efficiency of a semi-implicit method for 3-dimensional shallow-water flow. Comput. Math. Appl. 27: 99-112.
8. _, AND R. T. CHENG. 1992. Semi-implicit finite-difference methods for 3-dimensional shallow-water flow. Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids 15: 629-648.
9. CRONIN, T. W., AND R. B. FORWARD. 1982. Tidally timed behavior: Effects on larval distribution in estuaries, p. 505-520. In V. S. Kennedy [ed.], Estuarine comparisons. Academic Press.
10. D'ANGLEJAN, B. 1990. Recent sediments and sediment transport processes in the St. Lawrence Estuary, p. 109-129. In M. I. El-Sabh and N. Silverberg [eds.], Oceanography of a large-scale estuarine system: The St. Lawrence. Springer-Verlag.
11. DAUVIN, J. C., AND J. J. DODSON. 1990. Relationship between feeding incidence and vertical and longitudinal distribution of rainbow smelt larvae (Osmerus-mordax) in a turbid well-mixed estuary. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 60: 1-12.
12. DYER, K. R. 1997. Estuaries: A physical introduction, 2nd ed. Wiley.
13. EL-SABH, M. I., AND N. SILVERBERG. 1990. The St. Lawrence Estuary: Introduction, p. 1-9. In M. I. El-Sabh and N. Silverberg [eds.], Oceanography of a large-scale estuarine system: The St. Lawrence. Springer-Verlag.
14. FERZIGER, J. H. 1998. Numerical methods for engineering application, 2nd ed. Wiley.
15. FISCHER, H. B., E. J. LIST, R. C. Y. KOH, J. IMBERGER, AND N. H. BROOKS. 1979. Mixing in inland and coastal waters. Academic Press.
16. FORWARD, R. B., AND R. A. TANKERSLEY. 2001. Selective tidal-stream transport of marine animals. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. 39: 305-353.
17. GRIOCHE, A., X. HARLAY, P. KOUBBI, AND L. F. LAGO. 2000. Vertical migrations of fish larvae: Eulerian and Lagrangian observations in the Eastern English Channel. J. Plankton Res. 22: 1813-1828.
18. GROSS, E. S., J. R. KOSEFF, AND S. G. MONISMITH. 1999. Three-dimensional salinity simulations of south San Francisco Bay. J. Hydraul. Eng. ASCE 125: 1199-1209.
19. HANNAH, C. G., C. E. NAIMIE, J. W. LODER, AND F. E. WERNER. 1997. Upper-ocean transport mechanisms from the Gulf of Maine to Georges Bank, with implications for Calanus supply. Cont. Shelf Res. 17: 1887-1911.
20. HARE, J. A., AND OTHERS. 1999. Larval transport during winter in the SABRE study area: Results of a coupled vertical behaviour three-dimensional circulation model. Fish. Oceanogr. 8: 57-76.
21. HARMS, J. H., M. R. HEATH, A. D. BRYANT, J. O. BACKHAUS, AND D. A. HAINBUCHER. 2000. Modelling the Northeast Atlantic circulation: Implications for the spring invasion of shelf regions by Calanus finmarchicus. Ices J. Mar. Sci. 57: 1694-1707.
22. HOFFMANN, E. E., AND C. M. LASCARA. 1998. Overview of interdisciplinary modeling for marine ecosystems, p. 507-540. In K. H. Brink and A. R. Robinson [eds.], The sea: The global coastal ocean, processes and methods. Wiley.
23. HORVATH, T. G., AND G. A. LAMBERTI. 1999. Mortality of zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, veligers during downstream transport. Freshwat. Biol. 42: 69-76.
24. HUNTER, J. R., P. D. CRAIG, AND H. E. PHILLIPS. 1993. On the use of random-walk models with spatially-variable diffusivity. J. Comput. Physics 106: 366-376.
25. KIMMERER, W. J., J. R. BURAU, AND W. A. BENNETT. 1998. Tidally oriented vertical migration and position maintenance of zooplankton in a temperate estuary. Limnol. Oceanogr. 43: 1697-1709.
26. _, AND _. 2002. Persistence of tidally-oriented vertical migration by zooplankton in a temperate estuary. Estuaries 25: 359-371.
27. LAPRISE, R., AND J. J. DODSON. 1989. Ontogeny and importance of tidal vertical migrations in the retention of larval smelt Osmerus-mordax in a well-mixed estuary. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 55: 101-111.
28. _, AND _. 1994. Environmental variability as a factor controlling spatial patterns in distribution and species-diversity of zooplankton in the St-Lawrence-Estuary. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 107: 67-81.
29. MERTZ, G., AND Y. GRATTON. 1990. Topographic waves and topographically induced motions in the St. Lawrence Estuary, p. 94-108. In M. I. El-Sabh and N. Silverberg [eds.], Oceanography of a large-scale estuarine system: The St. Lawrence. Springer-Verlag.
30. MILLER, C. B. 1983. The zooplankton of estuaries, p. 103-149. In B. H. Ketchum [ed.], Estuaries and enclosed seas. Elsevier.
31. MONISMITH, S. G., W. KIMMERER, J. R. BURAU, AND M. T. STACEY. 2002. Structure and flow-induced variability of the subtidal salinity field in northern San Francisco Bay. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 32: 3003-3019.
32. MORGAN, C. A., J. R. CORDELL, AND C. A. SIMENSTAD. 1997. Sink or swim? Copepod population maintenance in the Columbia River estuarine turbidity-maxima region. Mar. Biol. 129: 309-317.
33. OKUBO, A. 1986. Dynamical aspects of animal grouping: Swarms, schools, flocks, and herds. Adv. Biophys. 22: 1-94.
34. ROMAN, M. R., D. V. HOLLIDAY, AND L. P. SANFORD. 2001. Temporal and spatial patterns of zooplankton in the Chesapeake Bay turbidity maximum. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 213: 215-227.
35. SIMONS, R. D. 2004. Circulation and zooplankton retention in the estuarine transition zone of the St. Lawrence Estuary. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford Univ.
36. SPRUNG, M. 1992. The other life: An account of present knowledge of the larval phase of Dreissena polymorpha, p. 39-53. In T. F. Nalepa and D. W. Schloesser [eds.], Zebra mussels: Biology, impacts, and control. CRC Press.
37. THOMSON, D. J. 1984. Random-walk modeling of diffusion in inhomogeneous turbulence. Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. 110: 1107-1120.
38. TREMBLAY, M. J., J. W. LODER, F. E. WERNER, C. E. NAIMIE, F. H. PAGE, AND M. M. SINCLAIR. 1994. Drift of sea scallop larvae Placopecten-magellanicus on Georges Bank - a model study of the roles of mean advection, larval behavior and larval origin. Deep-Sea Res. II 41: 7-49.
39. VISSER, A. W. 1997. Using random walk models to simulate the vertical distribution of particles in a turbulent water column. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 158: 275-281.
40. WINKLER, G., J. J. DODSON, N. BERTRAND, D. THIVIERGE, AND W. F. VINCENT. 2003. Trophic coupling across the St. Lawrence River estuarine transition zone. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 251: 59-73.
41. _, P. SIROIS, L. E. JOHNSON, AND J. J. DODSON. 2005. Invasion of an estuarine transition zone by Dreissena polymorpha veligers has no detectable effect on zooplankton community structure. Can. J. Aquat. Fish. Sci. 62: 578-592.
42. YOUNG, C. M. 1995. Behavior and locomotion during the dispersal phase of larval life, p. 249-277. In L. McEdward [ed.], Ecology of marine invertebrate larvae. CRC Press.