Cryptic diversity and comparative phylogeography of the estuarine copepod Acartia tonsa on the US Atlantic coast

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2425-2441 ◽  
Author(s):  
GANG CHEN ◽  
MATTHEW P. HARE
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Acartia Tonsa ◽  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Comparative Phylogeography ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e0151746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Arteaga ◽  
R. Alexander Pyron ◽  
Nicolás Peñafiel ◽  
Paulina Romero-Barreto ◽  
Jaime Culebras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Comparative Phylogeography

scholarly journals Preliminary prediction of the potential distribution and consequences of Haemaphysalis longicornis using a simple rule-based climate envelope model

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztian Magori
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Simple Rule ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Haemaphysalis Longicornis ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Climate Envelope ◽  
Envelope Model ◽  
The Many

AbstractHaemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned (or bush) tick has been detected on a sheep in August 2017 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. By October 26, 2018, this tick has been detected in 44 counties in 9 states along the Atlantic coast of the United States, with the first detection backdated to 2010. Here, I use a simple rule-based climate envelope model, based on a prior analysis in New Zealand, to provide a preliminary analysis of the potential range of this introduced tick species in North America. After validating this model against the counties where the tick has been already detected, I highlight the counties where this tick might cause considerable economic harm. I discuss the many limitations of this simple approach, and potential remedies for these limitations, and more sophisticated approaches. Finally, I conclude that substantial areas of the US, especially along the Gulf and Atlantic coast, are suitable for the establishment of this tick, putting millions of heads of livestock potentially at risk.

scholarly journals Hidden similarities in the dynamics of a weakly synchronous marine metapopulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 479-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya L. Rogers ◽  
Stephan B. Munch
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Weight Of Evidence ◽  
Dynamic Correlation ◽  
Variable Environments ◽  
The Us ◽  
Unimodal Response ◽  
Marine Metapopulation ◽  
Noise Factors

Populations of many marine species are only weakly synchronous, despite coupling through larval dispersal and exposure to synchronous environmental drivers. Although this is often attributed to observation noise, factors including local environmental differences, spatially variable dynamics, and chaos might also reduce or eliminate metapopulation synchrony. To differentiate spatially variable dynamics from similar dynamics driven by spatially variable environments, we applied hierarchical delay embedding. A unique output of this approach, the “dynamic correlation,” quantifies similarity in intrinsic dynamics of populations, independently of whether their abundance is correlated through time. We applied these methods to 17 populations of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) along the US Atlantic coast and found that their intrinsic dynamics were broadly similar despite largely independent fluctuations in abundance. The weight of evidence suggests that the latitudinal gradient in temperature, filtered through a unimodal response curve, is sufficient to decouple crab populations. As unimodal thermal performance is ubiquitous in ectotherms, we suggest that this may be a general explanation for the weak synchrony observed at large distances in many marine species, although additional studies are needed to test this hypothesis.

Maritime Route Delineation using AIS Data from the Atlantic Coast of the US

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Breithaupt ◽  
Andrea Copping ◽  
Jerry Tagestad ◽  
Jonathan Whiting
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Offshore Wind Energy ◽  
Automated Identification ◽  
Boundary Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
The Individual

This study examines maritime routes between ports along the Atlantic coast of the US, utilising Automated Identification System (AIS) data for the years 2010 through 2012. The delineation of vessel routes conducted in this study was motivated by development planned for offshore Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) along the Atlantic coast of the US and the need to evaluate the effect of these development areas on commercial shipping. To this end, available AIS data were processed to generate commercial vessel tracks for individual vessels, though cargo vessels are the focus in this study. The individual vessel tracks were sampled at transects placed along the Atlantic coast. The transect samples were analysed and partitioned by voyages between Atlantic ports to facilitate computation of vessel routes between ports. The route boundary analysis utilised a definition from UK guidance in which routes' boundaries encompassed 95% of the vessel traffic between ports. In addition to delineating route boundaries, we found multi-modal transverse distributions of vessels for well-travelled routes, which indicated preference for lanes of travel within the delineated routes.

scholarly journals Impacts of mycobacteriosis on the growth of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in Chesapeake Bay

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Latour ◽  
David T. Gauthier ◽  
James Gartland ◽  
Christopher F. Bonzek ◽  
Kathleen A. McNamee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Striped Bass ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Morone Saxatilis ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Disease Status ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The Us

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is an economically and ecologically valuable finfish species that inhabits nearshore and estuarine waters of many states along the US Atlantic coast. Chesapeake Bay provides extensive nursery and foraging habitats for striped bass, yet fish in the bay exhibit high prevalence of disease caused by bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium. Detection of population-level impacts associated with mycobacteriosis has been difficult because the disease is chronic and synoptic biological and disease data have been limited. Here, we present modeling analyses of growth data for disease-positive and -negative striped bass in Chesapeake Bay. Three growth relationships were considered, and for each, a single model was parameterized to include several covariates, most notably disease status and severity. Our results indicate that disease-positive and -negative fish have differing growth patterns and that the estimated asymptotic sizes of disease-positive fish are considerably lower than those of disease-negative fish. Compromised growth along with documentation that striped bass in Chesapeake Bay are experiencing disease-associated mortality suggests that disease may be reducing the productivity of this species.

scholarly journals Cryptic Diversity in Metropolis: Confirmation of a New Leopard Frog Species (Anura: Ranidae) from New York City and Surrounding Atlantic Coast Regions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e108213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Feinberg ◽  
Catherine E. Newman ◽  
Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell ◽  
Matthew D. Schlesinger ◽  
Brian Zarate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Leopard Frog ◽  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Frog Species

scholarly journals Reconstructing patterns of coastal risk in space and time along the US Atlantic Coast, 1970-2016

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott B. Armstrong ◽  
Eli D. Lazarus
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Us ◽  
Coastal Risk ◽  
County Scale ◽  
Disaster Science

Abstract. Despite interventions intended to reduce impacts of coastal hazards, the risk of damage along the US Atlantic Coast continues to rise. This reflects a long-standing paradox in disaster science: even as physical and social insights into disaster events improve, the economic costs of disasters keep growing. Risk can be expressed as a function of three components: hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. Risk may be driven up by coastal hazards intensifying with climate change, or by increased exposure of people and infrastructure in hazard zones. But risk may also increase because of interactions, or feedbacks, between hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. Here, we present a data-driven model that describes trajectories of risk at the county scale along the US Atlantic Coast over the past five decades. We also investigate indications of feedbacks between risk components that help explain these trajectories. Our findings suggest that spatially explicit modelling efforts to predict future coastal risk need to address feedbacks between hazard, exposure, and vulnerability to capture emergent patterns of risk in space and time.

Late Paleocene glyptosaur (Reptilia: Anguidae) osteoderms from South Carolina, USA

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Cicimurri ◽  
James L. Knight ◽  
Jean M. Self-Trail ◽  
Sandy M. Ebersole
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
North American ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Calcareous Nannofossils ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
The Us ◽  
Vertebrate Assemblage ◽  
Land Mammal ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

AbstractHeavily tuberculated glyptosaur osteoderms were collected in an active limestone quarry in northern Berkeley County, South Carolina. The osteoderms are part of a highly diverse late Paleocene vertebrate assemblage that consists of marine, terrestrial, fluvial, and/or brackish water taxa, including chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fish, turtles (chelonioid, trionychid, pelomedusid, emydid), crocodilians, palaeopheid snakes, and a mammal. Calcareous nannofossils indicate that the fossiliferous deposit accumulated within subzone NP9a of the Thanetian Stage (late Paleocene, upper part of Clarkforkian North American Land Mammal Age [NALMA]) and is therefore temporally equivalent to the Chicora Member of the Williamsburg Formation. The composition of the paleofauna indicates that the fossiliferous deposit accumulated in a marginal marine setting that was influenced by fluvial processes (estuarine or deltaic).The discovery of South Carolina osteoderms is significant because they expand the late Paleocene geographic range of glyptosaurines eastward from the US midcontinent to the Atlantic Coastal Plain and provide one of the few North American records of these lizards inhabiting coastal habitats. This discovery also brings to light a possibility that post-Paleocene expansion of this group into Europe occurred via northeastward migration along the Atlantic coast of North America.

scholarly journals Subtidal Benthic Invertebrates Shifting Northward Along the US Atlantic Coast

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1744-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Hale ◽  
Henry W. Buffum ◽  
John A. Kiddon ◽  
Melissa M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Benthic Invertebrates ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Interactions between striped bass (Morone saxatilis) rebuilding programmes and the conservation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and other anadromous fish species in the USA

2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 1346-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Grout
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
New England ◽  
Striped Bass ◽  
Fish Species ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Anadromous Fish ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Anadromous populations of striped bass occur along the Atlantic coast of the US from Maine to North Carolina. Recruitment overfishing and declining water quality led to substantial reductions in striped bass abundance during the 1970s and 1980s. Cooperative interstate fishery management of striped bass began in 1981, with the development of a fishery management plan by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, an organization of Atlantic coastal states. Effective fishery management and additional research and monitoring contributed to a tenfold increase in abundance of striped bass stocks by the late 1990s. This dramatic increase resulted in increased predation on a variety of anadromous fish species including American shad, blueback herring, and alewives. Predation by striped bass on Atlantic salmon smolts in North America has been documented, but the impact of this predation has not been quantified. Moderate to strong correlations were found between estimates of striped bass abundance and the return of Atlantic salmon to three of the four major New England salmon rivers. Further research is required to quantify the proportion of smolt production consumed by striped bass, particularly for salmon populations listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act.

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