Population dynamics of an ecologically important range-extender: Kelp beds versus sea urchin barrens

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 374, Issue , 2009, Pages 113-125

  Ling, S D ^a   Johnson, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centrostephanus rodgersii; Climate change; Growth; Invasion; Morphology; Reproduction; Sea urchin barrens; Seaweed beds

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ECHINODERM; GRAZING; KELP FOREST; MACROALGA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ALGAE; CENTROSTEPHANUS RODGERSII; DIADEMATIDAE; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 60049089530     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07729     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Andrew NL (1991) Changes in subtidal habitat following mass mortality of sea urchins in Botany Bay, New South Wales. Aust J Ecol 16:353-362
2. Andrew NL (1993) Spatial heterogeneity, sea urchin grazing, and habitat structure on reefs in temperate Australia. Ecology 74:292-302
3. Andrew NL, Byrne M (2001) The ecology of Centrostephanus rodgersii. In: Lawrence JM (ed) Edible sea urchins: biology and ecology. Elsevier Science, New York, p 149-160
4. Andrew NL, O'Neill AL (2000) Large-scale patterns in habitat structure on subtidal rocky reefs in New South Wales. Mar Freshw Res 51:255-263
5. Andrew NL, Underwood AJ (1993) Density-dependent foraging in the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii on shallow subtidal reefs in New South Wales, Australia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 99:89-98
6. Black R, Johnson MS, Trendall JT (1982) Relative size of Aristotle's lantern in Echinometra mathaei occurring at different densities. Mar Biol 71:101-106
7. Black R, Codd C, Hebbert S, Vink S, Burt J (1984) The functional significance of the relative size of Aristotle's Uantern in the sea urchin Echinometra mathaei (de Blainville). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 77:81-97
8. Blount C (2004) Density-dependent aspects of the ecology of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii. PhD Thesis, University of Sydney
9. Breen PA, Mann KH (1976) Destructive grazing of kelp by sea urchins in eastern Canada. J Fish Res Board Can 33:1278-1283
10. Byrne M, Andrew NL, Worthington DG, Brett PA (1998) Reproduction in the diadematoid sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in contrasting habitats along the coast of New South Wales, Australia. Mar Biol 132:305-318
11. Draper N, Smith H (1981) Applied regression analysis. Wiley, New York
12. Ebert TA (1980) Relative growth of sea urchin jaws: an example of plastic resource allocation. Bull Mar Sci 30:467-474
13. Ebert TA (2001) Growth and survival of post-settlement sea urchins. In: Lawrence JM (ed) Edible sea urchins: biology and ecology. Elsevier, New York, p 79-102
14. Ebert TA (2004) Shrinking sea urchins and the problems of measurement. In: Heinzeller T, Nebelsick JH (eds) Echinoderms: München. Proc 11th Int Echinoderm Conf, Munich, Germany, 6-10 October 2003. Taylor & Francis Group, London, p 321-325
15. Edwards PB, Ebert TA (1991) Plastic responses to limited food availability and spine damage in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 145:205-220
16. Gagnon P, Himmelman JH, Johnson LE (2003) Algal colonization in urchin barrens: defense by association during recruitment of the brown alga Agarum cribrosum. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 290:179-196
17. Haddon M (2001) Modelling and quantitative methods in fisheries. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL
18. Haddon M, Mundy C, Tarbath D (2008) Using an Inverse-Logistic model to describe Tasmanian blacklip abalone (Halitotis rubra) growth increments. Fish Bull 106:58-71
19. Harley CDG, Hughes RA, Hultgren KM, Miner BG and others (2006) The impact of climate change in coastal marine systems. Ecol Lett 9:228-241
20. Harrold C, Reed DC (1985) Food availability, sea urchin grazing and kelp forest community structure. Ecology 66:1160-1169
21. Hill NA, Blount C, Poore AGB, Worthington D, Steinberg P (2003) Grazing effects of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in two contrasting rocky reef habitats: effects of urchin density and its implications for the fishery. Mar Freshw Res 54:691-700
22. Himmelman JH (1980) The role of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus broebachiensis, in the rocky subtidal region of Newfoundland. In: Pringle JD, Sharp GJ, Caddy JF (eds) Proceedings of the workshop on the relationship between sea urchin grazing and commercial plant/animal harvesting. Can Tech Rep Fish Aquat Sci 954:92-119
23. Hughes L (2000) Biological consequences of global warming: Is the signal already apparent across natural systems? Trends Ecol Evol 15:56-61
24. Johnson CR, Mann KH (1982) Adaptations of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis for survival on barren grounds in Nova Scotia. In: Lawrence JM (ed) Echinoderms: Proc Int Conf, Tampa Bay, 14-17 September 1981. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, p 277-283
25. Johnson CR, Ling SD, Ross J, Shepherd S, Miller K (2005) Establishment of the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania: first assessment of potential threats to fisheries. Project No. 2001/044, Final Report, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. University of Tasmania, Hobart
26. Jones CG, Lawton JH, Shachak M (1997) Positive and negative effects of organisms as physical ecosystem engineers. Ecology 78:1946-1957
27. Kenner MC (1992) Population dynamics of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus in a Central California kelp forest: recruitment, mortality, growth, and diet. Mar Biol 112:107-118
28. Konar B (2000) Seasonal inhibitory effects of marine plants on sea urchins: structuring communities the algal way. Oecologia 125:208-217
29. Lang C, Mann KH (1976) Changes in sea urchin populations after the destruction of kelp beds. Mar Biol 36:321-326
30. Lauzon-Guay J, Scheibling RE (2007) Behaviour of sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis grazing fronts: food-mediated aggregation and density-dependent facilitation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 329:191-204
31. Ling SD (2008) Range expansion of a habitat-modifying species leads to loss of taxonomic diversity: a new and impoverished reef state. Oecologia 156:883-894
32. Ling SD, Johnson CR, Frusher S, King CK (2008) Reproductive potential of a marine ecosystem engineer at the edge of a newly expanded range. Glob Change Biol 14:907-915
33. Ling SD, Johnson CR, Ridgway K, Hobday AJ, Haddon M (in press) Climate-driven range extension of a sea urchin: inferring future trends by analysis of recent population dynamics. Glob Change Biol, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01734.x
34. Mann KH, Breen PA (1972) The relation between lobster abundance, sea urchins, and kelp beds. J Fish Res Board Can 29:603-605
35. Mattison JE, Trent JD, Shanks AL, Akin TB, Pearse JS (1977) Movement and feeding activity of red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) adjacent to a kelp forest. Mar Biol 39:25-30
36. Meidel SK, Schiebling RE (1998) Annual reproductive cycle of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, in differing habitats in Nova Scotia, Canada. Mar Biol 131:461-478
37. Meidel SK, Schiebling RE (1999) Effects of food type and ration on reproductive maturation and growth of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. Mar Biol 134:155-166
38. Micheli F, Halpern BS (2005) Low functional redundancy in coastal marine assemblages. Ecol Lett 8:391-400
39. Miller RJ, Adams AJ, Ebersole JP, Ruiz E (2007) Evidence for positive density-dependent effects in recovering Diadema antillarum populations. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 349:215-222
40. Parmesan C, Yohe G (2003) A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change. Nature 421:37-42
41. Pederson HG, Johnson CR (2008) Growth and age structure of sea urchins (Heliocidaris erythrogramma) in complex barrens and native macroalgal beds in eastern Tasmania. ICES J Mar Sci 65:1-11
42. Poloczanska ES, Babcock RC, Butler A, Hobday AJ and others (2007) Climate change and Australian marine life. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 45:409-480
43. Rogers-Bennett L, Bennett WA, Fastenau HC, Dewes CM (1995) Spatial variation in red sea urchin reproduction and morphology: implications for harvest refugia. Ecol Appl 5:1171-1180
44. Rosenzweig C, Casassa G, Karoly DJ, Imeson A and others (2007) Assessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems. In: Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, van der Linden PJ, Hanson CE (eds) Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 79-131,
45. Rowley RJ (1989) Settlement and recruitment of sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus spp.) in a sea-urchin barren ground and a kelp bed: Are populations regulated by settlement or post settlement processes? Mar Biol 100:485-494
46. Rowley RJ (1990) Newly settled sea urchins in a kelp bed and urchin barren ground: a comparison of growth and mortality. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 62:229-240
47. Scheffer M, Carpenter S, Foley JA, Folke C, Walker B (2001) Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. Nature 413:591-596
48. Steneck RS, Graham MH, Bourque BJ, Corbett D, Erlandson JM, Estes JA, Tegner MJ (2002) Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and future. Environ Conserv 29:436-459
49. Tegner MJ (1980) Multispecies considerations of resource management in southern California kelp beds. In: Pringle JD, Sharp GJ, Caddy JF (eds) Proc workshop on the relationship between sea urchin grazing and commercial plant/animal harvesting. Can Tech Rep Fish Aquat Sci 954:125-143
50. Tegner MJ, Dayton PK (1981) Population structure, recruitment and mortality of two sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus fransciscanus and S. purpuratus) in a kelp forest. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 5:255-268
51. Tegner MJ, Dayton PK, Edwards PB, Riser KL (1995) Sea urchin cavitation of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera C. Agardh) holdfasts and its effects on kelp mortality across a large California forest. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 191:83-99
52. Underwood AJ, Kingsford MJ, Andrew NL (1991) Patterns in shallow subtidal marine assemblages along the coast of New South Wales. Austral Ecol 16:231-249
53. Vasquez JA, McPeak RH (1998) A new tool for kelp restoration. Calif Fish Game 84:149-158
54. Wahle RA, Peckham SH (1999) Density-related reproductive trade-offs in the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. Mar Biol 134:127-137
55. Walther GR, Post E, Convey P, Menzel A and others (2002) Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416:389-395