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Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels
Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step ahead and predict larval presence and intensity. For this purpose we consider the influence of solar irradiance, wind regime...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27384527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29405 |
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author | Fuentes-Santos, Isabel Labarta, Uxío Álvarez-Salgado, X. Antón Fernández-Reiriz, Mª José |
author_facet | Fuentes-Santos, Isabel Labarta, Uxío Álvarez-Salgado, X. Antón Fernández-Reiriz, Mª José |
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description | Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step ahead and predict larval presence and intensity. For this purpose we consider the influence of solar irradiance, wind regime and continental runoff on the settlement processes. For the first time, we conducted a 5-years weekly monitoring of Mytilus galloprovincialis settlement on artificial suspended substrates, which allowed us to search for interannual variability in the settlement patterns. Comparison between the seasonal pattern of larval settlement and solar irradiance, as well as the well-known effect of solar irradiance on water temperature and food availability, suggest that solar irradiance indirectly influences the settlement process, and support the use of this meteorological variable to predict settlement occurrence. Our results show that solar irradiance allows predicting the beginning and end of the settlement cycle a month in advance: Particularly we have observed that solar irradiance during late winter indirectly drives the timing and intensity of the settlement onset, Finally, a functional generalise additive model, which considers the influence of solar irradiance and continental runoff on the settlement process, provides an accurate prediction of settlement intensity a fortnight in advance. |
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spelling | pubmed-49359412016-07-13 Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels Fuentes-Santos, Isabel Labarta, Uxío Álvarez-Salgado, X. Antón Fernández-Reiriz, Mª José Sci Rep Article Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step ahead and predict larval presence and intensity. For this purpose we consider the influence of solar irradiance, wind regime and continental runoff on the settlement processes. For the first time, we conducted a 5-years weekly monitoring of Mytilus galloprovincialis settlement on artificial suspended substrates, which allowed us to search for interannual variability in the settlement patterns. Comparison between the seasonal pattern of larval settlement and solar irradiance, as well as the well-known effect of solar irradiance on water temperature and food availability, suggest that solar irradiance indirectly influences the settlement process, and support the use of this meteorological variable to predict settlement occurrence. Our results show that solar irradiance allows predicting the beginning and end of the settlement cycle a month in advance: Particularly we have observed that solar irradiance during late winter indirectly drives the timing and intensity of the settlement onset, Finally, a functional generalise additive model, which considers the influence of solar irradiance and continental runoff on the settlement process, provides an accurate prediction of settlement intensity a fortnight in advance. Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4935941/ /pubmed/27384527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29405 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Fuentes-Santos, Isabel Labarta, Uxío Álvarez-Salgado, X. Antón Fernández-Reiriz, Mª José Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title | Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title_full | Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title_fullStr | Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title_full_unstemmed | Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title_short | Solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
title_sort | solar irradiance dictates settlement timing and intensity of marine mussels |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27384527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29405 |
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