NDLI: Effects of within-season temperature variations on the early life history of two estuarine demersal fishes

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Author	Tremont, Rachel M. Harding, Juliana M. Allen, Dennis M.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Cultured naked goby (Gobiosoma bosc) and striped blenny (Chasmodes bosquianus) larvae were used to compare life history parameters for early and late periods within a long spawning season during which temperature increased by approximately 10 °C. Hatch lengths, growth rates, larval period duration, settlement length, survivorship, and other metrics of these serial spawners were determined for larvae hatched during early and late time periods with ambient average weekly water temperatures of 20.8 (standard deviation ±2.1 °C) and 29.0 (±1.0), respectively. Cultured fishes provided parameter estimates in the absence of predation mortality and with constant prey availability. Four hypotheses were tested for each species: 1) total length at hatch is not related to temperature, 2) pelagic larval period (PLD) is negatively related to temperature, 3) growth rates and survivorship are positively related to temperature, and 4) flexion and settlement lengths are negatively related to temperature. For both gobies and blennies, hatch length decreased with increasing temperature, but was not significantly related to survivorship. Larval blennies retained the yolk-sac longer than gobies. At higher temperatures, striped blenny flexion length, settlement length, PLD, and instantaneous mortality significantly decreased while instantaneous growth in length increased. Naked goby flexion lengths, settlement lengths, PLD, and mortality rates also declined with increasing water temperatures while instantaneous growth rates increased with increasing water temperatures. Average growth in length did not change significantly with temperature for either species. Survivorship in both fishes was lowest during 0 to 6 days post hatch (dph) coincident with the yolk-sac and first feeding stages. Survivorship significantly increased with larval fish total length and age (dph) for both species and time periods. Average estimated striped blenny percentage survival increased by an order of magnitude (~3 to ~32 %) with increasing temperature while average naked goby percentage survival increased from ~3 % (early) to ~11 % (late) over the 8.3 °C temperature range examined. The observed life history parameter variation with seasonal temperature changes likely function to ensure survival to settlement for at least some cohorts within a year class as part of a bet-hedging life history strategy. Data from cultured fishes provide a baseline for future evaluation of demographics and rates from field collections.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	94
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03781909
Journal	Environmental Biology of Fishes
Volume Number	99
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15735133
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-09-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Estuarine fish Chasmodes bosquianus Gobiosoma bosc Larval fish growth Larval fish survivorship Freshwater & Marine Ecology Zoology Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Environment Nature Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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