Relationship between environmental conditions and zooplankton community structure during summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 602-613

  Elliott, David T ^a   Pierson, James J ^a   Roman, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

abundance; community ordination; copepods; dead zone; hypoxia; taxonomic composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUISE REPORT; HYPOXIA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RIVER PLUME; SEAFLOOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TAXONOMY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ACARTIA; COPEPODA; SALPIDA;

EID: 84861873539     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbs029     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Ayukai, T. (1990) Fecal pellet production by two species of planktonic calanoid copepods fed on naturally occurring particles. Bull. Plank. Soc. Japan, 37, 167-169.
2. Bianchi, T. S., DiMarco, S. F., Cowan, J. H. et al. (2010) The science of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: a review. Sci. Total Environ., 408, 1471-1484.
3. Bonnet, D. and Carlotti, C. (2001) Development and egg production in Centropages typicus (Copepoda: Calanoida) fed different food types: a laboratory study. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 224, 133-148.
4. Breitburg, D. L., Loher, T., Pacey, C. A. et al. (1997) Varying effects of low dissolved oxygen on trophic interactions in an estuarine food web. Ecol. Monogr., 67, 489-507.
5. Breitburg, D. L., Pihl, L. and Kolesar, S. E. (2001) Effects of low dissolved oxygen on the behavior, ecology and harvest of fishes: a comparison of the Chesapeake and Baltic-Kattegat systems. In Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal Estuarine Stud., 58, 241-267.
6. Butler, M. and Dam, H. G. (1994) Production rates and characteristics of fecal pellets of the copepod Acartia tonsa under simulated phytoplankton bloom conditions: implications for vertical flux. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 114, 81-91.
7. Capriulo, G. M., Smith, G., Troy, R. et al. (2002) The planktonic food web structure of a temperate zone estuary, and its alteration due to eutrophication. Hydrobiologia, 475, 263-333.
8. Checkley, D. M., Uye, S., Dagg, M. J. et al. (1992) Diel variations of the zooplankton and its environment at neritic stations in the Inland Sea of Japan and the northwest Gulf of Mexico. J. Plankton Res., 14, 1-40.
9. Cloern, J. (2001) Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 210, 223-253.
10. Dagg, M. J. (1995) Copepod grazing and the fate of phytoplankton in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Cont. Shelf Res., 15, 1303-1317.
11. Dagg, M. J., Ammerman, J. W., Amon, R. M. W. et al. (2007) A review of water column processes influencing hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries Coasts, 30, 735-752.
12. Dagg, M. J. and Brown, S. L. (2005) The potential contribution of fecal pellets from the larvacean Oikopleura dioica to vertical flux of carbon in a river dominated coastal margin. In Gorsky, G., Youngbluth, M. J. and Deibel, D. (eds), Response of Marine Ecosystems to Global Change: Ecological Impact of Appendicularians. GB Scientific Publisher, 293-308.
13. Dagg, M. J., Sato, R., Liu, H. et al. (2008) Microbial food web contributions to bottom water hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Cont. Shelf Res., 28, 1127-1137.
14. Decker, M. B., Breitburg, D. L. and Purcell, J. E. (2004) Effects of low dissolved oxygen on zooplankton predation by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 280, 163-172.
15. Diaz, R. J. (2001) Overview of hypoxia around the world. J. Environ. Qual., 30, 275-281.
16. Diaz, R. J. and Rosenberg, R. (1995) Marine benthic hypoxia, a review of its ecological effects and the behavioural responses of benthic macrofauna. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev., 33, 245-303.
17. Diaz, R. J. and Rosenberg, R. (2008) Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science, 321, 926-929.
18. Dilling, L. and Alldredge, A. L. (1993) Can chaetognath fecal pellets contribute significantly to carbon flux? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 92, 51-58.
19. Frangoulis, C., Christou, E. D. and Hecq, J. H. (2005) Comparison of marine copepod outfluxes: nature, rate, fate and role in the carbon, and nitrogen cycles. Adv. Mar. Biol., 47, 251-307.
20. Gaonkar, C. A. and Anil, A. C. (2010) What do barnacle larvae feed on? Implications in biofouling ecology. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK, 90, 1241-1247.
21. Gaudy, R. (1974) Feeding four species of pelagic copepods under experimental conditions. Mar. Biol., 25, 125-141.
22. González, H. E. and Smetacek, V. (1994) The possible role of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona in retarding vertical flux of zooplankton faecal material. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 113, 233-246.
23. Green, E. P. and Dagg, M. J. (1997) Mesozooplankton associations with medium to large marine snow aggregates in the northern Gulf of Mexico. J. Plankton Res., 19, 435-447.
24. Heinle, D. R. (1969) Temperature and zooplankton. Chesapeake Sci., 10, 186-209.
25. Hopkins, T. L. (1982) The vertical distribution of zooplankton in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Res., 29A, 1069-1083.
26. Huntley, M. E. and Lopez, M. D. G. (1992) Temperature-dependent production of marine copepods: a global synthesis. Am. Nat., 140, 201-242.
27. Kimmel, D. G., Boicourt, W. C., Pierson, J. J. et al. (2009) A comparison of the mesozooplankton response to hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay and the northern Gulf of Mexico using the biomass size spectrum. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 381, S65-S73.
28. Kimmel, D. G., Boicourt, W. C., Pierson, J. J. et al. (2010) The vertical distribution and diel variability of mesozooplankton biomass, abundance and size in response to hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico USA. J. Plankton Res., 32, 1185-1202.
29. Kwint, R. L. J., Irigoien, X. and Kramer, K. J. M. (1996) Copepods and DMSP. In Kiene, R. P., Visscher, P. T., Keller, M. D. and Kirst, G. O. (eds), Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMSP and Related Sulfonium Compounds. Plenum Press, New York, 239-252.
30. Larsson, P. and Lampert, W. (2011) Experimental evidence of a lowoxygen refuge for large zooplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr., 56, 1682-1688.
31. Legendre, P. and Legendre, L. (1998) Numerical Ecology. Second English Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Lehtiniemi, M., Engström-Ö st, J., Karjalainen, M. et al. (2002) Fate of cyanobacterial toxins in the pelagic food web: transfer to copepods or to faecal pellets? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 241, 13-21.
32. Leps, J. and S milauer, P. (2003) Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Liu, H. B. and Dagg, M. (2003) Interactions between nutrients, phytoplankton growth, and micro- and mesozooplankton grazing in the plume of the Mississippi River. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 258, 31-42.
33. Liu, Y., Evans, M. A. and Scavia, D. (2010) Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: exploring increasing sensitivity to nitrogen loads. Environ. Sci. Technol., 44, 5836-5841.
34. Ludsin, S. A., Zhang, X., Brandt, S. B. et al. (2009) Hypoxia-avoidance by planktivorous fish in Chesapeake Bay: implications for food web interactions and fish recruitment. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 381, S121-S131.
35. Lutz, R. V., Marcus, N. H. and Chanton, J. P. (1994) Hatching and viability of copepod eggs at 2 stages of embryological development- anoxic/hypoxic effect. Mar. Biol., 119, 199-204.
36. Madin, L. P. (1982) Production, composition and sedimentation of salp fecal pellets in oceanic waters. Mar. Biol., 67, 39-45.
37. Marcus, N. H., Richmond, C., Sedlacek, C. et al. (2004) Impact of hypoxia on the survival, egg production and population dynamics of Acartia tonsa Dana. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 301, 111-128.
38. Mauchline, J. (1998) The biology of calanoid copepods. Adv. Mar. Biol., 33, 1-710.
39. Nixon, S. W. (1990) Marine eutrophication-a growing international problem. Ambio, 19, 101.
40. Ortner, P. B., Hill, L. C. and Cummings, S. R. (1989) Zooplankton community structure and copepod species composition in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Cont. Shelf Res., 9, 387-402.
41. Paffenhöfer, G.-A. and Knowles, S. C. (1979) Ecological implications of fecal pellet size, production and consumption by copepods. J. Plankton Res., 37, 35-49.
42. Paffenhöfer, G. A. and Stearns, D. (1988) Why is Acartia tonsa (Copepoda: Calanoida) restricted to nearshore environments? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 42, 33-38.
43. Pierson, J. J., Roman, M. R., Kimmel, D. G. et al. (2009) Quantifying changes in the vertical distribution of mesozooplankton in response to hypoxic bottom waters. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 381, S74-S79.
44. Purcell, J. E., Breitburg, D. L., Decker, M. B. et al. (2001) Pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores in low dissolved oxygen environments: a review. In Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal Estuarine Stud., 58, 77-100.
45. Qureshi, N. A. (1995) The role of fecal pellets in the flux of carbon to the sea floor on a river-influenced continental shelf subject to hypoxia. PhD Thesis. Louisiana State University, 255.
46. Qureshi, N. A. and Rabalais, N. N. (2001) Distribution of zooplankton on a seasonally hypoxic continental shelf. In Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal Estuarine Stud., 58, 61-76.
47. Rabalais, N. N., Turner, R. E. and Wiseman, W. J. (2001) Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Eviron. Qual., 30, 320-329.
48. Rabalais, N. N., Turner, R. E. and Wiseman, W. J. (2002) Gulf of Mexico, aka "the dead zone". Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33, 235-263.
49. Redalje, D. G., Lohrenz, S. E. and Fahnenstiel, G. L. (1994) The relationship between primary production and the vertical export of particulate organic matter in a river-impacted coastal ecosystem. Estuaries, 17, 829-838.
50. Richmond, C., Marcus, N. H., Sedlacek, C. et al. (2006) Hypoxia and seasonal temperature: short-term effects and long-term implications for Acartia tonsa Dana. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 328, 177-196.
51. Roman, M. R., Gauzens, A. L., Rhinehart, W. K. et al. (1993) Effects of low oxygen waters on Chesapeake Bay zooplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr., 38, 1603-1614.
52. Saba, G. K., Steinberg, D. K. and Bronk, D. A. (2011) The relative importance of sloppy feeding, excretion, and fecal pellet leaching in the release of dissolved carbon and nitrogen by Acartia tonsa copepods. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 404, 47-56.
53. Scavia, D., Rabalais, N. N., Turner, R. E. et al. (2003) Predicting the response of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia to variations in the Mississippi River nitrogen load. Limnol. Oceanogr., 48, 951-956.
54. Sedlacek, C. and Marcus, N. H. (2005) Egg production of the copepod Acartia tonsa: the influence of hypoxia and food concentration. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 318, 183-190.
55. Shek, L. and Liu, H. (2010) Oxygen consumption rates of fecal pellets produced by three coastal copepod species fed with a diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Mar. Poll. Bull., 60, 1005-1009.
56. Sopanen, S., Koski, M., Uronen, P. et al. (2008) Prymnesium parvum exotoxins affect the grazing and viability of the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 361, 191-202.
57. Stalder, L. C. and Marcus, N. H. (1997) Zooplankton responses to hypoxia: behavioral patterns and survival of three species of calanoid copepods. Mar. Biol., 127, 599-607.
58. Ter Braak, C. J. F. and Verdonschot, P. F. M. 1995. Canonical correspondence analysis and related multivariate methods in aquatic ecology. Aquat. Sci., 57, 255-289.
59. Tester, P. A. and Turner, J. T. (1991) Why is Acartia tonsa restricted to estuarine habitats. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Copepoda. Vol. 1, Bulletin Plankton Society, Japan, 603-611.
60. Turner, J. T. (1984) Zooplankton feeding ecology: contents of fecal pellets of the copepods Eucalanus pileatus and Paracalanus quasimodo from continental shelf waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 15, 27-46.
61. Turner, J. T. (1986) Zooplankton feeding ecology: contents of fecal pellets of the cyclopoid copepods Oncaea venusta, Corycaeus amazonicus, Oithona plumifera, and O. simplex from the northern Gulf of Mexico. PSZNI: Mar. Ecol., 7, 289-302.
62. Turner, R. E., Qureshi, N., Rabalais, N. N. et al. (1998) Fluctuating silicate: nitrate ratios and coastal plankton food webs. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 95, 13048-13051.
63. Uye, S. (1994) Replacement of large copepods by small ones with eutrophication of embayments: cause and consequence. Hydrobiologia, 292/293, 513-519.
64. Uye, S. and Kaname, K. (1994) Relations between fecal pellet volume and body size for major zooplankters of the Inland Sea of Japan. J. Oceanogr., 50, 43-49.
65. Yentsch, C. S. and Menzel, D. W. (1963) A method for the determination of phytoplankton, chlorophyll and phaeophytin by fluorescence. Deep-Sea Res., 10, 221-231.
66. Yoon, W. D., Kim, S. K. and Han, K. N. (2001) Morphology and sinking velocities of fecal pellets of copepod, molluscan, eupausiid, and salp taxa in the northeastern tropical Atlantic. Mar. Biol., 139, 923-928.
67. Zhang, H., Ludsin, S. A., Mason, D. M. et al. (2009) Hypoxia-driven changes in the behavior and spatial distribution of pelagic fish and zooplankton in the northern Gulf of Mexico. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 381, S80-S91.