Roles of larval behaviour and microhabitat traits in determining spatial aggregations in the ascidian Pyura chilensis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 332, Issue , 2007, Pages 155-165

  Manríquez, Patricio H ^a,b   Castilla, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Mechanical disturbance; Microhabitat; Settlement; Water flow; Waterborne cues

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FILTER FEEDER; FISHERY REGULATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; KELP FOREST; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MICROHABITAT; SESSILE SPECIES; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER FLOW;

CHILE; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA; LESSONIA NIGRESCENS; PYURA CHILENSIS;

EID: 34047156484     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps332155     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abelson A, Denny M (1987) Settlement of marine organisms in flow. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 28:317-339
2. Ambler RP, Can̄ete JI (1991) Asentamiento y reclutamiento de Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782 (Urochordata: Ascidiacea) sobre placas artificiales suspendidas en Bahía La Herradura, Coquimbo, Chile. Rev Biol Mar 26:403-413
3. Atema J (1988) Distribution of chemical stimuli. In: Atema J, Fay RR, Popper AN, Tavolga (eds) Sensory biology of aquatic organisms. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p 29-56
4. Butman CA (1987) Larval settlement of soft-sediment invertebrates: the spatial scales of pattern explained by active habitat selection and the emerging role of hydrodynamic process. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 25:113-165
5. Cancino J, Santelices B (1984) Importancia ecológica de los discos adbesivos de Lessonia nigrescens Bory (Phaeophyta) en Chile central. Rev Chil Hist Nat 57:23-33
6. Castilla JC (1981) Perspectivas de investigatión en estructura y dinámica de comunidades intermareales rocosas de Chile central. II. Depredadores de alto nivel trófico. Medio Ambiente 5:190-215
7. Castilla JC, Defeo O (2001) Latin American benthic shellfisheries: emphasis on co-management and experimental practices. Rev Fish Biol Fish 11:1-30
8. Castilla JC, Steinmiller DK, Pacheco CJ (1998) Quantifying wave exposure daily and hourly on the intertidal rocky shore of central Chile, Rev Chil Hist Nat 71:19-25
9. Castilla JC, Lagos NA, Cerda M (2004) Marine ecosystem engineering by the alien ascidian Pyura praeputialis on a mid-intertidal rocky shore. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 268:119-130
10. Cea G (1969) Estadios primaries de desarrollo y metamorfosis de Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782 (Tunicata, Ascidiacea, Pyuridae). Bol Soc Biol Concepción 42:317-331
11. Daume S, Brand-Gardner S, Woelkerling WJ (1999) Settlement of abalone larvae (Haliotis laevigata Donovan) in response to nongeniculate coralline red algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 234:125-143
12. Davis AR (1987) Variations in recruitment of the subtidal colonial ascidians Podoclavella cylindrical (Quoy & Gaimard): the role of substratum choice and early survival. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 106:57-71
13. Davis AR (1995) Over-exploitation of Pyura chilensis (Ascidiacea) in southern Chile: the urgent need to establish marine reserves. Rev Chil Hist Nat 68:107-116
14. Davis AR (1996) Association among ascidians: facilitation of recruitment in Pyura spinifera. Mar Biol 126:35-41
15. Denny MW, Daniel TL, Koehl MAR (1985) Mechanical limits to size in wave-swept organisms, Ecol Monogr 55:69-102
16. Gosselin LA, Qian PY (1997) Juvenile mortality in benthic marine invertebrates, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 146:265-282
17. Havenhand JN, Svane I (1991) Roles of hydrodynamics and larval behaviour in determining spatial aggregation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 68:271-276
18. Heiss WH, Smith AM, Probert PK (2000) Influence of the small intertidal seagrass Zostera novazelandica on linear water flow and sediment texture. NZ J Mar Freshw Res 34:689-694
19. Hunt HL, Scheibling RE (1997) The role of early postsettlement mortality in recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates: a review. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 155:269-301
20. Keough MJ, Chernoff H (1987) Dispersal and population variation in the bryozoan Bugula neritina. Ecology 68:199-210
21. Kingsford MJ, Leis JM, Shanks A, Linderman KC, Morgan SG, Pineda J (2002) Sensory environments, larval abilities and local self-recruitment. Bull Mar Sci 70:309-340
22. Knight-Jones EW (1951) Gregariousness and some other aspects of the settling behaviour of Spirorbis. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 30:201-222
23. Knight-Jones EW (1955) The gregarious settling reaction of barnacles as a measure of systematic affinity. Nature 175:266
24. Krug PJ, Zimmer RK (2000) Larval settlement: chemical markers for tracing production, transport, and distribution of a waterborne cue. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 207:283-296
25. Legendre P, Legendre L (1998) Numerical ecology. Development in environmental modelling, Vol 20. Elsevier, Amsterdam
26. Manríquez PH, Castilla JC (2005) Self-fertilization as an alternative mode of fertilization in the solitary tunicate Pyura chilensis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 301:113-125
27. Muñoz MR (1991) Factores que explican la diversidad alfa en comunidades de briozoos incrustantes de Chile central. PhD thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile
28. Pawlik JR (1992) Chemical ecology of the settlement of benthic marine invertebrates. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 30:273-335
29. Pearce CM, Scheibling RE (1990) Induction of settlement and metamorphosis in the sand dollar Echinaranchnius parma: evidence for an adult-associated factor. Mar Biol 107:363-369
30. Ryland (1974) Behaviour, settlement and metamorphosis of bryozoan larvae: a review. Thalassia Jugosl 10:239-262
31. Santelices B, Ojeda FP (1984) Recruitment, growth and survival of Lessonia nigrescens (Phaeophyta) at various tidal levels in exposed habitats of central Chile. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 19:73-82
32. Sepúlveda R, Cancino JM, Thiel M (2003) The peracarid epifauna associated with the ascidian Pyura chilensis (Molina, 1782) (Ascidiacea: Pyuridae), J Nat Hist 37:1555-1569
33. Sherrard KM, LaBarbera M (2005) Form and function in juvenile ascidians. I, Implications of early juvenile morphologies for performance. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 287:127-138
34. Svane I (1987) On larval behaviour and post-metamorphic mortality of Ascidea metula OF Müller. Ophelia 27:87-100
35. Svane I, Ompi M (1993) Match dynamics in the beds of the mussel Mytilus edulis: effect of site, patch size and position within a match, Ophelia 37:187-202
36. Svane IB, Young CM (1989) The ecology and behavior of ascidian larvae. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 27:45-90
37. Svane I, Havenhand JN, Jørgensen AJ (1987) Effects of tissue extracts of adults on metamorphosis in Ascidia mentula OF Müller and Ascidiella scabra (OF Müller). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 110:171-181
38. Toonen RJ, Pawlik JR (2001) Settlement of the gregarious tube worm Hydroides dianthus (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). II. Testing the desperate larva hypothesis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 224:115-131
39. Valdivia N, Heidemann A, Thiel M, Molis M, Wahl M (2005) Effects of disturbance on the diversity of hard-bottom macrobenthic communities on the coast of Chile, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 299:45-54
40. Vásquez E, Young CM (1996) Responses of compound ascidian larvae to haloclines. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 133:179-190
41. Vásquez JA (1983) Pyura chilensis Molina, 1782 en el Norte del Perú (Ascidiacea, Pyuridae). Bol Biol Conceptión 54:171-172
42. Vásquez J, Santelices B (1990) Ecological effects of harvesting Lessonia (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) in central Chile. Hydrobiologia 204:41-48
43. Walter LJ, Wethey DS (1996) Settlement and early post-settlement survival of sessile marine invertebrates on topographically complex surface: the importance of refuge dimensions and adult morphology. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 137:161-171
44. Wieczorek SK, Todd CD (1997) Inhibition and facilitation of bryozoan and ascidian settlement by natural multi-species biofilms: effects of film age and roles of active and passive larval attachment. Mar Biol 128:468-473
45. Young CM (1988) Ascidian cannibalism correlates with larval behavior and adult distribution. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 117:9-26
46. Zamorano JH, Moreno CA (1975) Comunidades bentónicas del sublitoral rocoso de Bahía Corral. I. Area mínima de muestreo y descriptión cuantitativa de la asociación Pyura chilensis Molina. Medio Ambiente 1:58-67