Spatio-temporal population dynamics of the sand snailUmbonium costatum: importance of ontogenetic migration and annual recruitment variability
✍ Scribed by T. Noda; S. Nakao
- Book ID
- 104734098
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 592 KB
- Volume
- 123
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-3162
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✦ Synopsis
The spatio-temporal population dynamics of the subtidal snail Umbonium costatum (Kiener) in Hakodate Bay, northern Japan, are described over a 9-yr period (1982 to 1988, 1992). Annual variations in recruitment success not only caused the highly variable age structure of the population, but also affected its distribution pattern. In heavy recruitment years (1982, 1984 and 1988), location of the densest population differed from the other years, and the areas with 0 yr old individuals were larger. Every year, the distribution of 0 yr olds was mostly restricted to inshore (within 320 m from shore), while the distribution of adults (>0yr) was mostly restricted to offshore ( > 320 m from shore). Such patterns may be generated by ontogenetic migration of cohorts to offshore areas. Ontogenetic migration also could have buffered the large annual variation in spat distribution and maintained the small variation in the distribution of adults.