Applying a Coupled Biophysical Model to Predict Larval Dispersal and Source/Sink Relationships in a Depleted Metapopulation of the Eastern OysterCrassostrea virginica
| Autor: | William S. Arnold, Diego A. Narváez, Steven D. Meyers, Mark E. Luther, Eileen Hofmann, Stephen P. Geiger, Marc E. Frischer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
geography Oyster geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Metapopulation Estuary Aquatic Science Biology biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Fishery biology.animal Biological dispersal Crassostrea Eastern oyster Bay Reef 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Shellfish Research. 36:101-118 |
| ISSN: | 1943-6319 0730-8000 |
| Popis: | The eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica once supported one of the largest fisheries in the eastern United States. Oyster populations and the reefs they form have suffered chronic long-term decline throughout the species' range, including in northwest Florida's Pensacola Bay estuary system (PBS). To guide efforts to rebuild oyster populations in the PBS, connectivity patterns were evaluated among historic and extant reef locations using an integrated biophysical numerical model. Water quality parameters and oyster recruitment were monitored in May 2007 and then monthly from July 2007 through July 2008. Resultant salinity data were used to calibrate an Estuarine Coastal Ocean Model—based numerical circulation model of Pensacola Bay, which was then coupled to an existing, individual-based, oyster larvae routine to predict ontogenetic larval distribution. Threedimensional Lagrangian transport algorithms were used to simulate transport of modeled larvae during four 20-day time periods during those su... |
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