Frontiers in Marine Science (Oct 2020)
Recruitment Disruption and the Role of Unaffected Populations for Potential Recovery After the Pinna nobilis Mass Mortality Event
- Diego K. Kersting,
- Maite Vázquez-Luis,
- Baptiste Mourre,
- Fatima Z. Belkhamssa,
- Elvira Álvarez,
- Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli,
- Carmen Barberá,
- Agustín Barrajón,
- Emilio Cortés,
- Salud Deudero,
- José R. García-March,
- Salvatore Giacobbe,
- Francisca Giménez-Casalduero,
- Luis González,
- Santiago Jiménez-Gutiérrez,
- Silvija Kipson,
- Javier Llorente,
- Diego Moreno,
- Patricia Prado,
- Juan A. Pujol,
- Jordi Sánchez,
- Andrea Spinelli,
- José M. Valencia,
- José M. Valencia,
- Nardo Vicente,
- Nardo Vicente,
- Iris E. Hendriks
Affiliations
- Diego K. Kersting
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBIO), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Maite Vázquez-Luis
- Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Baptiste Mourre
- Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Fatima Z. Belkhamssa
- Laboratoire Protection, Valorisation et Gestion des Ressources Marines et Littorales & Systématique Moléculaire/Département des Sciences de la Mer et de l’Aquaculture (LPVGRML), Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem, Mostaganem, Algeria
- Elvira Álvarez
- Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Zagreb University, Zagreb, Croatia
- Carmen Barberá
- Centro de Investigación Marina, Universitat d’Alacant, Santa Pola, Spain
- Agustín Barrajón
- Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Junta de Andalucía, Almería, Spain
- Emilio Cortés
- Acuario de la Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Salud Deudero
- Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- José R. García-March
- Instituto de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Ciencia Marina (IMEDMAR-UCV), Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Salvatore Giacobbe
- 0Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, ChiBioFarAm, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
- Francisca Giménez-Casalduero
- 1Department of Marine Science and Applied Biology, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain
- Luis González
- 2Servicio de la Reserva Marina de Cabo de Gata-Níjar, Dirección General de Pesca Sostenible-Secretaría General de Pesca/MAPA, Almería, Spain
- Santiago Jiménez-Gutiérrez
- 3Instituto de Ecología Litoral, El Campello, Spain
- Silvija Kipson
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Zagreb University, Zagreb, Croatia
- Javier Llorente
- 4Servicio de la Reserva Marina de Levante de Mallorca - Cala Rajada, Dirección General de Pesca Sostenible-Secretaría General de Pesca/MAPA, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Diego Moreno
- Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Junta de Andalucía, Almería, Spain
- Patricia Prado
- 5Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA)-Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Tarragona, Spain
- Juan A. Pujol
- 6Environmental Department, Torrevieja City Hall, Torrevieja, Spain
- Jordi Sánchez
- 7SUBMON: Awareness, Study and Conservation of the Marine Environment, Barcelona, Spain
- Andrea Spinelli
- 8Department of Biology, Oceanographic, Valencia, Spain
- José M. Valencia
- 9Laboratori d’Investigacions Marines I Aqüicultura (LIMIA), Govern de les Illes Balears, Port d’Andratx, Spain
- José M. Valencia
- 0Instituto de Investigaciones Agroambientales y de la Economía del Agua (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria-Comunidad Autónoma de les Illes Balears, Universitat de les Illes Balears) [INAGEA (INIA-CAIB-UIB)], Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Nardo Vicente
- 1Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE) Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, Avignon University, Marseille, France
- Nardo Vicente
- 2Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard, Île des Embiez, France
- Iris E. Hendriks
- 3Global Change Research Group, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.594378
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7
Abstract
A devastating mass mortality event (MME) very likely caused by the protozoan Haplosporidium pinnae first detected in 2016 in the Western Mediterranean Sea, is pushing the endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis to near extinction. Populations recovery, if possible, will rely on larval dispersal from unaffected sites and potential recolonization through recruitment of resistant juveniles. To assess the impact of the MME on the species’ larval recruitment, an unprecedented network of larval collector stations was implemented over several thousands of kilometers along the Western Mediterranean coasts during the 3 years after the onset of the MME. The findings of this network showed a generalized disruption in recruitment with dramatic consequences for the recovery of the species. However, there were exceptions to this pattern and recruits were recorded in a few sites where the resident population had been decimated. This hints to the importance of unaffected populations as larval exporting sources and the role of oceanographic currents in larval transport in the area, representing a beacon of hope in the current extremely worrying scenario for this emblematic species.
Keywords
- critically endangered
- mass mortality
- recruitment
- larval connectivity
- Mediterranean Sea
- hydrodynamic model
