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Título: Physiological responses to estuarine stress gradient affect performance and field distribution of the non-native crustacean Synidotea laticauda
Autores/as: Ruíz Delgado, Maria del Carmen
González Ortegón, Enrique
Herrera, Inma 
Drake, Pilar
Almón, Bruno
Vilas, César
Baldó, Francisco
Clasificación UNESCO: 2510 Oceanografía
Palabras clave: Osmoregulation
Physiological tolerance
Potential respiration rate
Salinity gradient
Survival, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Publicación seriada: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 
Resumen: Naturalised populations in estuaries are characteristic of non-native species tolerant to the salinity gradient. The non-native isopod Synidotea laticauda, since the first record in 1991 in a European estuary, has been continuously recorded in others (e.g. in 1994 in the Guadalquivir estuary). Possible links between physiology and its successful establishment in the Guadalquivir estuary were explored through the combination of physiological studies and field distribution (7 years). Survival, osmoregulation and potential respiration rate were estimated under different experimental salinity conditions. This non-native species is naturalised, with presence of juveniles and adults during most of the year. Spatial patterns were closely related to the salinity gradient showing the highest densities at its isosmotic point (salinity = 20). Survival experiments showed a high tolerance (survival > 80%) to salinity changes between 5 and 35 and no mortality close to its isosmotic point. In addition, acute salinity changes had a clear effect on the potential respiration rate. Overall, our results suggests that the weak osmoregulatory capacity of S. laticauda determined its salinity-dependent distribution pattern, showing high densities at physiologically more favourable salinities, minimizing the energy required for osmoregulation and therefore its mortality risk.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/114137
ISSN: 0272-7714
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.05.015
Fuente: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science [ISSN 0272-7714], v. 225, 106233, (September 2019)
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