Modelling physico-chemical factors affecting occurrences of a non-indigenous planktonic copepod in northeast Pacific estuaries |
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Authors: | Jeffery R Cordell Lucinda M Tear Stephen M Bollens |
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Institution: | (1) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Box 355020, Seattle, WA 98195-5020, USA;(2) School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 98686-9600, USA |
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Abstract: | Estuarine ecosystems along the Pacific coast of North America are vulnerable to invasions by non-indigenous planktonic copepods,
with documented invasions by at least nine species introduced via ship’s ballast. One of these, the calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus inopinus, now occurs in a relatively wide geographical area in coastal estuaries of Washington and Oregon States. Although it appears
to be well established in the region, plankton surveys conducted in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 in estuaries from southern
Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, to northern California, United States indicate that it has not expanded its
range. This static distribution suggests that P. inopinus has reached a distributional limit, and it may thus be a good organism for applying models for predicting planktonic invasions,
by characterizing estuaries with and without populations of the copepod. In this study, we applied both parametric, linear
(discriminant function analysis, logistic regression) and nonparametric, non-linear (classification trees) techniques to develop
models for occurrence of P. inopinus, to identify parameters that may lead to successful invasions and to identify specific estuaries or regions that might be
at risk of invasion by this species. Both model types had similar results, identifying relatively simple salinity- and stratification-based
models as good predictors of P. inopinus. While different models selected slightly different sets of variables and thresholds, all models identified relatively low
salinity and stratification of water column temperature and salinity as important predictors of P. inopinus presence. The models also identified several “false positives” that mainly occurred in more inland waters of Puget Sound—estuaries
that did not have P. inopinus, but had the conditions that support it, and which may be at risk for future invasions by this species. |
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