Widespread demographic explosion of a non-indigenous hydrozoan on an oceanic island

Fernando Espino; Francisco J. Otero-Ferrer; Néstor E. Bosch; Josep Coca; Ricardo Haroun; Fernando Tuya

doi:10.3989/scimar.04949.09A

Authors

Fernando Espino Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, IU-ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3988-7297
Francisco J. Otero-Ferrer Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, IU-ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1328-9662
Néstor E. Bosch School of Biological Sciences, UWA Oceans Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-8456
Josep Coca Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0625-8240
Ricardo Haroun Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, IU-ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1348-692X
Fernando Tuya Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, IU-ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8316-5887

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04949.09A

Keywords:

non-indigenous species, hydrozoan, colonization, nearshore habitats, Canary Islands

Abstract

The arrival of non-indigenous species into new areas is one of the main processes altering the oceans globally. Macrorhynchia philippina is a large-sized colonial hydrozoan of an invasive nature. To obtain a deeper understanding of the process of colonization of new areas, it is essential to describe the ecological pattern through scales of temporal and spatial variation. In this study, we describe the colonization by M. Philippina of an oceanic island (Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands, eastern Atlantic). We describe the abundance and size structure patterns of M. Philippina in three nearshore habitats, rocky reefs, seagrass meadows and rhodolith seabeds, at times before (2014), during (2016) and after (2017) the demographic explosion of this species. On rocky reefs and rhodolith seabeds, the abundance of colonies increased dramatically in 2017 relative to 2014, e.g. from 0 to 138 colonies/100 m². On seagrass meadows, however, the colonies were smaller. In summary, M. Philippina shows an ecological plasticity to rapidly colonize different types of nearshore habitats, but with varying success.

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