{"title":"Abundance and growth of the invasive Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, in the lower Columbia River, USA","authors":"S. Henricksen, S. Bollens","doi":"10.3391/ai.2022.17.1.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea , is a broadly distributed and abundant invasive species, yet many aspects of its biology are not well understood. Based on previous research by other investigators, we hypothesized that abundance, population growth rate, and individual growth rate of C. fluminea would increase with temperature, chlorophyll- a , and dissolved oxygen. We sampled C. fluminea at two sites in the lower Columbia River (CR), USA. Modal progression analyses indicated a life span of 2–3 years. A generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) predicting the abundance of C. fluminea indicated a significant negative association with chlorophyll- a concentration, whereas a GLMM predicting the population growth rate of C. fluminea indicated a significant positive association with dissolved oxygen. The GLMM predicting the individual growth rate of C. fluminea indicated the individual growth rate was not significantly related to any individual environmental variable. Overall, these results emphasize that the biology of C. fluminea in the CR is similar in many regards to other populations studied in temperate regions globally, but that important spatial differences can occur between sites separated by 60 km within the same river system.","PeriodicalId":8119,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Invasions","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Aquatic Invasions","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2022.17.1.03","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea , is a broadly distributed and abundant invasive species, yet many aspects of its biology are not well understood. Based on previous research by other investigators, we hypothesized that abundance, population growth rate, and individual growth rate of C. fluminea would increase with temperature, chlorophyll- a , and dissolved oxygen. We sampled C. fluminea at two sites in the lower Columbia River (CR), USA. Modal progression analyses indicated a life span of 2–3 years. A generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) predicting the abundance of C. fluminea indicated a significant negative association with chlorophyll- a concentration, whereas a GLMM predicting the population growth rate of C. fluminea indicated a significant positive association with dissolved oxygen. The GLMM predicting the individual growth rate of C. fluminea indicated the individual growth rate was not significantly related to any individual environmental variable. Overall, these results emphasize that the biology of C. fluminea in the CR is similar in many regards to other populations studied in temperate regions globally, but that important spatial differences can occur between sites separated by 60 km within the same river system.
期刊介绍:
Aquatic Invasions is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal focusing on academic research of biological invasions in both inland and coastal water ecosystems from around the world.
It was established in 2006 as initiative of the International Society of Limnology (SIL) Working Group on Aquatic Invasive Species (WGAIS) with start-up funding from the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Integrated Project ALARM.
Aquatic Invasions is an official journal of International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species (INVASIVESNET).
Aquatic Invasions provides a forum for professionals involved in research of aquatic non-native species, including a focus on the following:
• Patterns of non-native species dispersal, including range extensions with global change
• Trends in new introductions and establishment of non-native species
• Population dynamics of non-native species
• Ecological and evolutionary impacts of non-native species
• Behaviour of invasive and associated native species in invaded areas
• Prediction of new invasions
• Advances in non-native species identification and taxonomy