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  1. Article ; Online: Divergent desalination effects on alien and native gammarid functional responses

    Cuthbert, Ross N. / Briski, Elizabeta

    Mar Biol. 2023 Mar., v. 170, no. 3 p.32-32

    2023  

    Abstract: Climate change could shift the impacts of biological invasions on aquatic ecosystems. Sea freshening is an often-inconspicuous consequence of climatic change that may modify invasive alien species performance in enclosed seas. Several gammarid ... ...

    Abstract Climate change could shift the impacts of biological invasions on aquatic ecosystems. Sea freshening is an often-inconspicuous consequence of climatic change that may modify invasive alien species performance in enclosed seas. Several gammarid crustaceans have been particularly successful aliens across fresh, brackish, and marine waters. Here, we use comparative functional responses (feeding rates across resource densities) to examine the ecological impacts of an invasive alien (Gammarus tigrinus) and native (Gammarus locusta) gammarid, present in the Baltic Sea, under three different salinity regimes (14, 10, 6) toward larval chironomid prey. Feeding rates differed between the two species, but these differences depended on salinity, whereby at the lowest salinities, the invasive alien species showed significantly improved performance compared to the native species. Both gammarids exhibited hyperbolic Type II functional responses, with attack rates similar across salinity regimes. Handling times were significantly shortened, and maximum feeding rates heightened, in the alien under sea freshening scenarios compared to the native. These results have implications for enclosed sea systems, where projected freshening could shift the performance advantage toward invasive alien species over natives, thereby exacerbating their ecological impacts.
    Keywords Chironomidae ; Gammarus ; climate change ; desalination ; indigenous species ; invasive species ; larvae ; salinity ; Baltic Sea
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-03
    Size p. 32.
    Publishing place Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 1117-4
    ISSN 1432-1793 ; 0025-3162
    ISSN (online) 1432-1793
    ISSN 0025-3162
    DOI 10.1007/s00227-023-04180-w
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  2. Article ; Online: Divergent desalination effects on alien and native gammarid functional responses

    Cuthbert, Ross N. / Briski, Elizabeta

    2023  

    Abstract: Climate change could shift the impacts of biological invasions on aquatic ecosystems. Sea freshening is an often-inconspicuous consequence of climatic change that may modify invasive alien species performance in enclosed seas. Several gammarid ... ...

    Abstract Climate change could shift the impacts of biological invasions on aquatic ecosystems. Sea freshening is an often-inconspicuous consequence of climatic change that may modify invasive alien species performance in enclosed seas. Several gammarid crustaceans have been particularly successful aliens across fresh, brackish, and marine waters. Here, we use comparative functional responses (feeding rates across resource densities) to examine the ecological impacts of an invasive alien (Gammarus tigrinus) and native (Gammarus locusta) gammarid, present in the Baltic Sea, under three different salinity regimes (14, 10, 6) toward larval chironomid prey. Feeding rates differed between the two species, but these differences depended on salinity, whereby at the lowest salinities, the invasive alien species showed significantly improved performance compared to the native species. Both gammarids exhibited hyperbolic Type II functional responses, with attack rates similar across salinity regimes. Handling times were significantly shortened, and maximum feeding rates heightened, in the alien under sea freshening scenarios compared to the native. These results have implications for enclosed sea systems, where projected freshening could shift the performance advantage toward invasive alien species over natives, thereby exacerbating their ecological impacts.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-07
    Publisher Springer
    Publishing country de
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Conference proceedings ; Online: Do Ponto-Caspian species have inherent advantages over other species in colonizing new areas?

    Briski, Elizabeta

    2019  

    Publishing country de
    Document type Conference proceedings ; Online
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  4. Conference proceedings ; Online: Is salinity an obstacle for biological invasions?

    Briski, Elizabeta

    2019  

    Publishing country de
    Document type Conference proceedings ; Online
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  5. Conference proceedings ; Online: Is salinity an obstacle for biological invasions?

    Briski, Elizabeta

    2019  

    Abstract: Invasions of freshwater habitats by marine species have become increasingly common in recent years, with most of these species originating from Ponto-Caspian region. In contrast, few freshwater species have invaded brackish, but not marine habitats. To ... ...

    Abstract Invasions of freshwater habitats by marine species have become increasingly common in recent years, with most of these species originating from Ponto-Caspian region. In contrast, few freshwater species have invaded brackish, but not marine habitats. To determine if species from certain areas can better tolerate transitions from saline to freshwater habitats and vice versa, we explored nonindigenous species (NIS) established in the North and Baltic Seas and Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River regions—two areas intensively studied in concern to NIS, highly invaded by Ponto-Caspian species and with different salinity patterns (marine vs. freshwater). We compared observed numbers of NIS in these two regions to expected numbers of NIS from major donor regions which were calculated based on the available species pool from donor regions, frequency of shipping transit, and an environmental match between donor and recipient regions. Then we conducted salinity tests on eight species native to Northern Europe, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River and Ponto-Caspian region, as well as experimental selection experiments on Ponto-Caspian gammarid Pontogammarus maeoticus to determine their salinity tolerance and adaptation potential for higher and lower salinity than the tested population was collected from (i.e., 10 ppt), respectively. Our results demonstrated that Ponto-Caspian taxa colonized both types of habitats, marine areas of the North and Baltic Seas and freshwater of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River, in much higher numbers than expected. All eight species tolerate wide ranges of salinity, however, different patterns arose among species from different regions. Ponto-Caspian taxa showed lower mortality in fresh water, while Northern European taxa showed higher survival in fully marine conditions. Finally our experimental selection of P. maeoticus resulted in successful selection to lower, but not to higher salinity.
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  6. Article ; Online: Temperature, not salinity, drives impact of an emerging invasive species.

    Cuthbert, Ross N / Briski, Elizabeta

    The Science of the total environment

    2021  Volume 780, Page(s) 146640

    Abstract: Biological invasions are a growing ecological and socioeconomic problem worldwide. While robust predictions of impactful future invaders are urgently needed, understandings of invader impacts have been challenged by context-dependencies. In aquatic ... ...

    Abstract Biological invasions are a growing ecological and socioeconomic problem worldwide. While robust predictions of impactful future invaders are urgently needed, understandings of invader impacts have been challenged by context-dependencies. In aquatic systems in particular, future climate change could alter the impacts of invasive non-native species. Widespread warming coupled with sea freshening may exacerbate ecological impacts of invaders in marine environments, compromising ecosystem structure, function and stability. We examined how multiple abiotic changes affect the potential ecological impact of an emerging invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region - a notorious origin hotspot for invaders, characterised by high salinity and temperature variation. Using a comparative functional response (feeding rates across prey densities) approach, the potential ecological impacts of the gammarid Pontogammarus maeoticus towards native chironomid prey were examined across a range of current and future temperature (18, 22 °C) and salinity (14, 10, 6, 2 ppt) regimes in a factorial design. Feeding rates of P. maeoticus on prey significantly increased with temperature (by 60%), but were not significantly affected by salinity regime. Gammarids displayed significant Type II functional responses, with attack rates not significantly affected by warming across all salinities. Handling times were, however, shortened by warming, and thus maximum feeding rates significantly increased, irrespective of salinity regime. Functional responses were significantly different following warming at high prey densities under all salinities, except under the ambient 10 ppt. Euryhalinity of invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region thus could allow sustained ecological impacts across a range of salinity regimes. These results corroborate high invasion success and field impacts of Ponto-Caspian gammarids in brackish through to freshwater ecosystems. Climate warming will likely worsen the potential ecological impact of P. maeoticus. With invasions growing worldwide, quantifications of how combined elements of climate change will alter the impacts of emerging invasive non-native species are needed.
    MeSH term(s) Amphipoda ; Animals ; Ecosystem ; Introduced Species ; Salinity ; Temperature
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-21
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146640
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  7. Article ; Online: Functional responses of an invasive mud crab across a salinity gradient.

    Cuthbert, Ross N / Briski, Elizabeta

    The Science of the total environment

    2021  Volume 818, Page(s) 151684

    Abstract: Environmental gradients may alter the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. In marine systems such as the Baltic Sea, current salinity is variable and seawater freshening is projected in future, potentially facilitating novel keystone predators. ... ...

    Abstract Environmental gradients may alter the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. In marine systems such as the Baltic Sea, current salinity is variable and seawater freshening is projected in future, potentially facilitating novel keystone predators. Here, we examine the influence of salinity variation in the western Baltic Sea (i.e. ambient 10, then 7 and 4 ppt) on the functional response (FR) of the Harris mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii towards benthic macroinvertebrate prey at different densities. Rhithropanopeus harrisii displayed a Type II FR across salinities towards larval chironomids, due to a consistently high resource consumption rate at low prey densities. Feeding rates were significantly reduced at 4 ppt (mean 6 chironomid prey killed day
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brachyura ; Introduced Species ; Predatory Behavior ; Salinity ; Seawater
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-16
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151684
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  8. Article: Temperature, not salinity, drives impact of an emerging invasive species

    Cuthbert, Ross N / Briski, Elizabeta

    Science of the total environment. 2021 Aug. 01, v. 780

    2021  

    Abstract: Biological invasions are a growing ecological and socioeconomic problem worldwide. While robust predictions of impactful future invaders are urgently needed, understandings of invader impacts have been challenged by context-dependencies. In aquatic ... ...

    Abstract Biological invasions are a growing ecological and socioeconomic problem worldwide. While robust predictions of impactful future invaders are urgently needed, understandings of invader impacts have been challenged by context-dependencies. In aquatic systems in particular, future climate change could alter the impacts of invasive non-native species. Widespread warming coupled with sea freshening may exacerbate ecological impacts of invaders in marine environments, compromising ecosystem structure, function and stability. We examined how multiple abiotic changes affect the potential ecological impact of an emerging invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region — a notorious origin hotspot for invaders, characterised by high salinity and temperature variation. Using a comparative functional response (feeding rates across prey densities) approach, the potential ecological impacts of the gammarid Pontogammarus maeoticus towards native chironomid prey were examined across a range of current and future temperature (18, 22 °C) and salinity (14, 10, 6, 2 ppt) regimes in a factorial design. Feeding rates of P. maeoticus on prey significantly increased with temperature (by 60%), but were not significantly affected by salinity regime. Gammarids displayed significant Type II functional responses, with attack rates not significantly affected by warming across all salinities. Handling times were, however, shortened by warming, and thus maximum feeding rates significantly increased, irrespective of salinity regime. Functional responses were significantly different following warming at high prey densities under all salinities, except under the ambient 10 ppt. Euryhalinity of invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region thus could allow sustained ecological impacts across a range of salinity regimes. These results corroborate high invasion success and field impacts of Ponto-Caspian gammarids in brackish through to freshwater ecosystems. Climate warming will likely worsen the potential ecological impact of P. maeoticus. With invasions growing worldwide, quantifications of how combined elements of climate change will alter the impacts of emerging invasive non-native species are needed.
    Keywords Chironomidae ; Gammaridae ; climate ; colonizing ability ; environmental impact ; freshwater ; introduced species ; invasive species ; salinity ; temperature
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-0801
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    Note NAL-AP-2-clean
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146640
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  9. Article: Functional responses of an invasive mud crab across a salinity gradient

    Cuthbert, Ross N. / Briski, Elizabeta

    Science of the total environment. 2021 Nov. 10,

    2021  

    Abstract: Environmental gradients may alter the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. In marine systems such as the Baltic Sea, current salinity is variable and seawater freshening is projected in future, potentially facilitating novel keystone predators. ... ...

    Abstract Environmental gradients may alter the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. In marine systems such as the Baltic Sea, current salinity is variable and seawater freshening is projected in future, potentially facilitating novel keystone predators. Here, we examine the influence of salinity variation in the western Baltic Sea (i.e. ambient 10, then 7 and 4 ppt) on the functional response (FR) of the Harris mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii towards benthic macroinvertebrate prey at different densities. Rhithropanopeus harrisii displayed a Type II FR across salinities towards larval chironomids, due to a consistently high resource consumption rate at low prey densities. Feeding rates were significantly reduced at 4 ppt (mean 6 chironomid prey killed day⁻¹) compared to 10 ppt and 7 ppt (9 killed day⁻¹). Search efficiencies tended to be greatest at 10 ppt, whereas handling times were shortest — and maximum feeding rate highest — at the intermediate 7 ppt. These results suggest a slight reduction in predatory impact by R. harrisii at lower salinities. Nevertheless, across most prey densities, FRs were not significantly different, indicating sustained interaction strength across a range of salinity regimes.
    Keywords Chironomidae ; crabs ; environment ; invasive species ; macroinvertebrates ; salinity ; seawater ; Baltic Sea
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-1110
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    Note Pre-press version
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151684
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