PI44B:
Population Connectivity in Aquatic Ecosystems III Posters

Session ID#: 84576

Session Description:
Geographical distribution of aquatic organisms is determined by numerous biotic and abiotic factors. Advanced tools and methods (e.g., biophysical model, tracking larvae, tank experiment on larval traits) developed last decades allow us to further understand connectivity of subpopulations. This session will integrate new studies and findings on population connectivity and related processes (e.g., transport, dispersion, recruitment, settlement, competition) of aquatic organisms (e.g., invertebrates, fish, algae, mangrove, holoplankton including bacteria and viruses) in any aquatic habitats (open ocean, deep sea, coastal zone, estuary, river, etc.) across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Studies contributing to understand basic mechanisms of aquatic transport and connectivity are expected, but we also solicit studies dealing with temporal and spatial population/community dynamics due to natural/anthropogenic disturbances. Interdisciplinary study using genetic population data, laboratory experiment, modeling (numerical, statistical, conceptual), in-situ observations, remote sensing as well as innovative approaches are encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ME - Marine Ecology and Biodiversity
Index Terms:

4512 Currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Primary Chair:  Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam
Co-chairs:  Satoshi Mitarai, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan, Claire B B Paris, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Peter M Buston, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam
Moderators:  Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam and Satoshi Mitarai, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Coastal Surface Connectivity Of The Gulf Of Mexico From Transition Matrices. (646745)
Javier Rodriguez Outerelo1, Paula Perez-Brunius2, Maria Josefina Olascoaga3, Philippe Miron3, Francisco J Beron-Vera3, Paula García-Carrillo4, Julio Sheinbaum2, Joao Marcos Souza5, Julien Jouanno6, Sheila Natali Estrada-Allis7 and Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo8, (1)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, Mexico, (2)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)CICESE, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (5)New Zealand Meteorological Service (MetService), MetOcean Division, Raglan, New Zealand, (6)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (7)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (8)Univ Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, EM, Mexico
 
A comparative study of spatial resolution in ocean circulation models and its impact in Lagrangian particle tracking simulations (641853)
Jennifer Ann Tatoi Kealohalani Wong-Ala, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, United States, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott Michael Durski, Oregon State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
 
Predicting the Location of Current-Driven Biogeographic Boundaries in the Coastal Ocean (643187)
William Lush, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Earth Sciences, Durham, United States and James M Pringle, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
Approaches to understanding transport of marine organisms (650141)
Atsushi Fujimura, University of Guam, Marine Laboratory, Mangilao Village, Guam
 
Estimating spawning locations of the deep-sea red and blue shrimp Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea with a backward trajectory model (650636)
Morane Clavel-Henry1, Elizabeth W North2, Jordi Solé1, Nixon Bahamon3, Marta Carretón1 and Joan B Company4, (1)ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (3)CEAB-CSIC, Girona, Spain, (4)Inst Ciencies Mar CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
 
Caribbean Dispersal Patterns Vary with Larval Fish Behavior, Hydrography, and Habitat Availability (654028)
Christina Hernandez1, Claire B B Paris2, Ana Carolina Vaz2, Benjamin Jones3, Julie Kellner4, David Richardson5, Robert Cowen6, Su Sponaugle7 and Joel Llopiz8, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Biological Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, RI, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR, United States, (7)Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (8)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
 
Connectivity Patterns of Coastal and Neritic Fish Larvae in Deep Waters in the Western Gulf of Mexico: How Ichthyoplankton Surveys Can Be Helpful to Evaluate the Reliability of the Velocity Fields Provided by the Circulation Models? (648212)
Jesus C Compaire1, Sylvia Patricia Adlheid Jiménez-Rosenberg2, Javier Rodriguez Outerelo3, Laura del Pilar Echeverri-García4, Paula Perez-Brunius3 and Sharon Z Herzka4, (1)CICESE, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas CICIMAR, La Paz, BS, Mexico, (3)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (4)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Biological Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
 
The Small World of Global Marine Fisheries: The Cross-Boundary Consequences of Larval Dispersal (649666)
Nandini Ramesh, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, James A Rising, London School of Economics, Grantham Institute on Climate Change, London, United Kingdom and Kimberly Lai Oremus, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States
 
Running with Hooligans: population structure, biology, and cultural importance of the Nooksack River Longfin Smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys) (654792)
Rachel J Arnold, Northwest Indian College, Salish Sea Research Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
 
Fundulus parvipinnis in Mission Bay: Understanding Patterns of Fecundity and Reproduction (652809)
Ilana Rivera Larrea, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States and Drew M Talley, University of San Diego, Marine Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States
 
A Genetic Assessment of Channeled Whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatus, Population Structure and Occurence of Multiple Paternity in the mid-Atlantic (643428)
Samantha Askin1, Jan McDowell2 and Robert Fisher2, (1)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, United States
 
Potential Predictability of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) Catch in the Western Central Pacific (644929)
Jihwan Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Hanna Na, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, Young-Gyu Park, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ocean Circulation Research Center, Busan, South Korea and Young Ho Kim, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea
 
Using Chemical Tracers to Understand Where Fish Were Born (635655)
Devin Robichaux and Paul Chittaro, NOAA Seattle, Environmental Fisheries Science, Seattle, United States
 
Relationship Between Calanoid Copepods and Epibiont Suctorian Ciliates in the North Pacific Ocean (645627)
Yoshinari Endo, The Open University of Japan, Sendai, Japan, Yuma Sato, Kaneryo Sea Vegetable Corp., Osato-cho, Japan, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hakodate, Japan and Igor Dovgal, Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
 
Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Crassostrea virginica Spat and Fouling Organisms to Determine Oyster Restoration Feasibility in the Maryland Coastal Bays (647436)
Madeline Farmer, Daniel Cullen and Bradley G Stevens, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Natural Sciences, Princess Anne, MD, United States
 
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Boring Sponges Undermine Oyster Restoration Efforts Outside of a Narrow Salinity Regime in Pamlico Sound (644681)
Zofia Knorek, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, NC, United States, Niels Lindquist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Morehead City, NC, United States and Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, NC, United States
 
Habitat Turnover of Host Anemones Stichodactyla gigantea and Heteractis magnifica Affect the Amphiprion percula Population (653089)
Lucy Fitzgerald1, Hugo Harrison2, Remy Gatins3, Pablo Saenz-Agudelo4, Geoffrey P. Jones5, Serge Planes6 and Michael Berumen1, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Red Sea Research Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)Universidad Austral de Chile, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Chile, (5)James Cook University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, QLD, Australia, (6)CRIOBE, Moorea, French Polynesia
 
Spatial genetic structure and phenotypes of Galaxea corals in the Ryukyu Archipelago (645107)
Yuichi Nakajima1, Patricia H. Wepfer1 and Satoshi Mitarai2, (1)Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Marine Biophysics Unit, Onna, Okinawa, Japan, (2)Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan
 
Mobile fauna communities associated with the three common holopelagic Sargassum morphotypes in the western North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico (648922)
Lindsay Martin1, Madalyn Taylor2, Grayson Huston2, Deborah Goodwin3, Jeffrey M Schell4 and Amy NS Siuda5, (1)Independent Researcher, Princeton, United States, (2)Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Sea Education Association, Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Sea Education Association, Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
 
Ocean mooring panels contribute to our understanding of the interaction between marine debris and invasive species (657885)
Cathryn Murray1, Linsey Haram2, Cynthia Wright3, Gregory Ruiz2, James T Carlton4, Nikolai A Maximenko5, Andrey Shcherbina6, Luca Raffaele Centurioni7, Mary Crowley8 and Jan Hafner9, (1)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, Canada, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States, (3)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)Williams College, Mystic Seaport Program, Mystic, CT, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (8)Ocean Voyages Institute, Sausalito, CA, United States, (9)IPRC/SOEST U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
Testing top-down vs bottom-up influences on marine biofilm communities (644689)
Sergio Morales, Sven P. Tobias-Hünefeldt and Jess Wenley, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand