Life history of Coilia nasus from the Yellow Sea inferred from otolith Sr:Ca ratios

2012 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Jiang ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Hongbo Liu ◽  
Xin-qiang Shen
2015 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Liu ◽  
Ren-Cheng Yu ◽  
Tian Yan ◽  
Qing-Chun Zhang ◽  
Ming-Jiang Zhou

2008 ◽  
Vol 93 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 72-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun-Do Hwang ◽  
Tae-Won Lee ◽  
Sun-Wan Hwang

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya UMINO ◽  
Masaki YAMAMOTO ◽  
Naoki SASADA ◽  
Kenichi OHARA

Author(s):  
Benjamin Kidder Hodges

Mirages seen at sea have a long history of being interpreted as distant islands and mythological realms. Hot and cool pockets of air refracting light can make boats and islands appear as if floating in air. These atmospheric visions can be studied as physical phenomena and as cultural imaginaries, an extension of what Philip Hayward has called the aquapelagic imaginary. In alliance with Donna Haraway’s mythology-inspired Chthulucene, this article will use the Chinese folklore of the shen (蜃) (‘clam-monster’) to consider ecological issues around deep sea mining. In the ancient etiology of the shen, its breath was thought responsible for visions of Penglai, the fabled island home to the Eight Immortals believed to lie somewhere in the Yellow Sea. The search for Penglai and its rumored elixir of life has now been supplanted by exploration for methane, a largely untapped fossil fuel seeping up from the ocean floor. The clams and multi-species communities that cluster around these emissions, alongside mythological sea creatures, give shape to changing affects and atmospheres on the horizon.


ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 951 ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Te-Yu Liao ◽  
Wen-Chien Huang ◽  
Yoshiyuki Iizuka ◽  
Ming-Tai Chou ◽  
Jen-Chieh Shiao

Rhinogobius formosanus Oshima, 1919 has long been considered an amphidromous goby. However, a landlocked population recently found in the Jingualiao Creek upstream of the Feitsui Reservoir in Taipei suggests that R. formosanus may complete its life in the river. This study aims to verify the habitat use of the landlocked population of R. formosanus collected from the Feitsui Reservoir and an amphidromous population collected in Malian Creek using otolith Sr:Ca ratio analysis. The hypothesis that early life history varies between the landlocked and migratory gobies was also tested. Genetic analyses show that the Feitsui Reservoir and Malian Creek populations are not genetically different. Rhinogobius formosanus from Malian Creek showed high-to-low otolith Sr:Ca ratios suggesting that these specimens spent a planktonic larval stage in the sea followed by a freshwater life at later stages. In contrast, R. formosanus from the Feitsui Reservoir showed constant lower otolith Sr:Ca ratios, implying a landlocked life history of fish in the creek upstream of the reservoir. In addition, the analysis of growth increments showed a longer pelagic larval duration for the fish in the Malian Creek (58.8 days) than those in the Feitsui Reservoir (38.8). Variation of pelagic larval duration in two genetically homogenous populations implies acclimatization to the reservoir by the landlocked gobies. This study shows that R. formosanus, like some other congeners, is capable of adapting to a freshwater landlocked environment in its early developmental stage and supports the hypothesis that landlocked populations may have a shorter pelagic larval duration.


2019 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Zhang ◽  
Shiming Wan ◽  
Peter D. Clift ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Zhaojie Yu ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Ohara ◽  
Momoko Hotta ◽  
Daisuke Takahashi ◽  
Takashi Asahida ◽  
Hitoshi Ida ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
takaomi arai ◽  
aya kotake ◽  
sadaaki kayama ◽  
miki ogura ◽  
yoshiro watanabe

the strontium (sr) and calcium (ca) concentrations in the otoliths of the skipjack tuna katsuwonus pelamis collected in the western pacific ocean were examined by wavelength dispersive x-ray spectrometry on an electron microprobe. otolith sr:ca ratios of the tunas collected off the marshall islands in the tropical waters were constant over the life history transect of the otolith. in contrast, ratios in most tunas collected off sanriku in the temperate waters in october fluctuated from low to high at 1100–1800 μm from the core. a similar fluctuation of otolith sr:ca ratio from low to high was found in a skipjack tuna that was tagged and released off sanriku, and then recaptured off the palau islands. therefore, at least two life history patterns of the skipjack tunas, of global migration toward northern temperate regions and local residence in tropical spawning grounds, are suggested by specimens collected in the western pacific ocean.


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