Magdalena Bay: Chermside’s Observations in the Present Day

Abstract Natural ecosystems are rarely structurally simple or functionally homogeneous. This is true for the complex coastal region of Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico, where the spatial variability in ecosystem fluxes from the Pacific coastal ocean, eutrophic lagoon, mangroves, and desert were studied. The Sky Arrow 650TCN environmental research aircraft proved to be an effective tool in characterizing land–atmosphere fluxes of energy, CO2, and water vapor across a heterogeneous landscape at the scale of 1 km. The aircraft was capable of discriminating fluxes from all ecosystem types, as well as between nearshore and coastal areas a few kilometers distant. Aircraft-derived average midday CO2 fluxes from the desert showed a slight uptake of −1.32 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1, the coastal ocean also showed an uptake of −3.48 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1, and the lagoon mangroves showed the highest uptake of −8.11 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1. Additional simultaneous measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) allowed simple linear modeling of CO2 flux as a function of NDVI for the mangroves of the Magdalena Bay region. Aircraft approaches can, therefore, be instrumental in determining regional CO2 fluxes and can be pivotal in calculating and verifying ecosystem carbon sequestration regionally when coupled with satellite-derived products and ecosystem models.

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Reproductive Strategies of Sea Basses based on Larval Abundance in Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1982–1986

North American Journal of Fisheries Management ◽

10.1577/m06-015.1 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 205-215

Author(s):

Raymundo Avendaño-Ibarra ◽

Martín E. Hernández-Rivas ◽

Roxana de Silva-Dávila

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Strategies ◽

Larval Abundance ◽

Magdalena Bay

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Feeding habits of Paralabrax nebulifer (Serranidae) during reproductive and non-reproductive seasons in an adjacent area to Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Revista de biología marina y oceanografía ◽

10.22370/rbmo.2021.56.2.3053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 89-101

Author(s):

Julio Alejandro Ysla-Guzmán ◽

Xchel Gabriel Moreno-Sánchez ◽

Martín Oscar Rosales-Velázquez ◽

Víctor Carrasco-Chávez ◽

José Luis Ortíz-Galindo

Keyword(s):

Baja California ◽

Feeding Habits ◽

Feeding Strategy ◽

Gonadosomatic Index ◽

Reproductive Season ◽

Hepatosomatic Index ◽

Adjacent Area ◽

Baja California Sur ◽

Sardinops Sagax ◽

Magdalena Bay

The barred sand bass Paralabrax nebulifer is a commercially important fish off the west coast of Baja California Sur. To assess the diet of this species and variations as a function of sex and reproductive condition, 60 specimens were captured using traps during seven seasonal sampling trips from August 2016 to August 2018 in an adjacent area to Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The stomach contents of 50 specimens were obtained (23 males and 27 females). Sex was diagnosed by direct observation of the gonads. Based on the gonadosomatic index, hepatosomatic index, and histological analyses, the reproductive season of the barred sand bass was corroborated for August 2016, April, August, and September 2017, and August 2018, and the non-reproductive season was corroborated for November 2016 and March 2018. The Index of Relative Importance (IRI) was used to classify the main diet components, which comprised three fish species, seven crustacean species, and one mollusk species. According to the IRI, the South American pilchard Sardinops sagax and the red pelagic crab Pleuroncodes planipes were the prey that contributed the most (55%) to the barred sand bass diet. The ANOSIM showed that there were significant differences in the amount and type of prey consumed by sex; the SIMPER analysis revealed that the species contributing the most to differences between the sexes were S. sagax (16.58%), Euphylax dovii (15.95%), Stenocionops ovata (12%), and P. planipes (11.82%) for females. There were significant differences in the amount and type of prey consumed between types of reproductive season; the species contributing the most to differences between seasons were Anchoa spp. (27.76%), and P. planipes for non-reproductive season (22.67%), and S. sagax (11.08%) for reproductive season. The feeding strategy of the barred sand bass was that of a specialist carnivorous predator that fed mainly on the fish Sardinops sagax during the reproductive season, which supply the dietary nutritional requirements of the lipids HUFA (arachidonic acid, 20:4n-6; eicosapentaenoic acid, 20:5n-3; docosahexaenoic acid, 22:6n-3), nutrients required to achieve reproductive success.

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Hunting patterns and success of an osprey (Pandion haliaetus) population at Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Ciencias Marinas ◽

10.7773/cm.v33i3.1241 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 325-333

Author(s):

A Castellanos-Vera

Keyword(s):

Baja California ◽

Baja California Sur ◽

Pandion Haliaetus ◽

Magdalena Bay

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Phylogeographic Resolution of the Barnacle (Chelonibia testudinaria) from the North-Eastern Mediterranean Loggerhead Sea Turtles Epibiont Community

Genetics of Aquatic Organisms ◽

10.4194/2459-1831-v5_1_01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 01-08

Author(s):

Elif Beden ◽

Arzu Karahan

Keyword(s):

Age Estimation ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Coi Gene ◽

Loggerhead Sea Turtles ◽

Barnacle Species ◽

The North ◽

Wide Range ◽

North Eastern ◽

Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase ◽

Magdalena Bay

Barnacles are common epibionts on a wide range of marine organisms, including turtles. Chelonibia testudinaria is a successful epibiotic barnacle species, and mainly turtles are responsible for their wide range dispersal. In the present study, the mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) gene haplotypes of C. testudinaria from Caretta caretta hosts were evaluated. The samples were collected from three dead C. caretta turtle carapaces in 2014 from the Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences coastline. Results were also compared with those samples submitted to databases (NCBI and BOLD-system, 139 in total). By comparison, three clades were recorded like previous studies: the Atlantic-Mediterranean clade (Clade-α), the IndianPacific Ocean clade (Clade-β), and Magdalena Bay (Eastern Pacific- Clade-) clade; all samples collected from Turkish shores clustered in the Atlantic-Mediterranean group (Clade-α). The gene flow between the three clades was deficient and highly significant (0.02, 0.03, and 0.03, respectively). According to network age estimation, present study samples’ clade (Clade-α) diverged from the Clade-β approximately 200 kya (SDs=0.22, SDy=4402.90) and Clade- 130 kya (SDs=0.17, SDy=3494.55). In the present study, eight haplotypes were observed in total, two of which were specific to the region.

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