Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia

Cornelia Jaspers; Bastian Huwer; Elvire Antajan; Aino Hosia; Hans Harald Hinrichsen; Arne Biastoch; Dror Angel; Ragnhild Asmus; Christina Augustin; Siamak Bagheri; Steven E. Beggs; Thorsten J.S. Balsby; Maarten Boersma; Delphine Bonnet; Jens T. Christensen; Andreas Dänhardt; Floriane Delpy; Tone Falkenhaug; Galina Finenko; Nicholas E.C. Fleming; Veronica Fuentes; Bella Galil; Arjan Gittenberger; Donal C. Griffin; Holger Haslob; Jamileh Javidpour; Lyudmila Kamburska; Sandra Kube; Victor T. Langenberg; Maiju Lehtiniemi; Fabien Lombard; Arne Malzahn; Macarena Marambio; Veselina Mihneva; Lene Friis Møller; Ulrich Niermann; Melek Isinibilir Okyar; Zekiye Birinci Özdemir; Sophie Pitois; Thorsten B.H. Reusch; Johan Robbens; Kremena Stefanova; Delphine Thibault; Henk W. van der Veer; Lies Vansteenbrugge; Lodewijk van Walraven; Adam Woźniczka

doi:10.1111/geb.12742

Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia

Cornelia Jaspers, Bastian Huwer, Elvire Antajan, Aino Hosia, Hans Harald Hinrichsen, Arne Biastoch, Dror Angel, Ragnhild Asmus, Christina Augustin, Siamak Bagheri, Steven E. Beggs, Thorsten J.S. Balsby, Maarten Boersma, Delphine Bonnet, Jens T. Christensen, Andreas Dänhardt, Floriane Delpy, Tone Falkenhaug, Galina Finenko, Nicholas E.C. FlemingVeronica Fuentes, Bella Galil, Arjan Gittenberger, Donal C. Griffin, Holger Haslob, Jamileh Javidpour, Lyudmila Kamburska, Sandra Kube, Victor T. Langenberg, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Fabien Lombard, Arne Malzahn, Macarena Marambio, Veselina Mihneva, Lene Friis Møller, Ulrich Niermann, Melek Isinibilir Okyar, Zekiye Birinci Özdemir, Sophie Pitois, Thorsten B.H. Reusch, Johan Robbens, Kremena Stefanova, Delphine Thibault, Henk W. van der Veer, Lies Vansteenbrugge, Lodewijk van Walraven, Adam Woźniczka

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Aim: Invasive species are of increasing global concern. Nevertheless, the mechanisms driving further distribution after the initial establishment of non-native species remain largely unresolved, especially in marine systems. Ocean currents can be a major driver governing range occupancy, but this has not been accounted for in most invasion ecology studies so far. We investigate how well initial establishment areas are interconnected to later occupancy regions to test for the potential role of ocean currents driving secondary spread dynamics in order to infer invasion corridors and the source–sink dynamics of a non-native holoplanktonic biological probe species on a continental scale. Location: Western Eurasia. Time period: 1980s–2016. Major taxa studied: ‘Comb jelly’ Mnemiopsis leidyi. Methods: Based on 12,400 geo-referenced occurrence data, we reconstruct the invasion history of M. leidyi in western Eurasia. We model ocean currents and calculate their stability to match the temporal and spatial spread dynamics with large-scale connectivity patterns via ocean currents. Additionally, genetic markers are used to test the predicted connectivity between subpopulations. Results: Ocean currents can explain secondary spread dynamics, matching observed range expansions and the timing of first occurrence of our holoplanktonic non-native biological probe species, leading to invasion corridors in western Eurasia. In northern Europe, regional extinctions after cold winters were followed by rapid recolonizations at a speed of up to 2,000 km per season. Source areas hosting year-round populations in highly interconnected regions can re-seed genotypes over large distances after local extinctions. Main conclusions: Although the release of ballast water from container ships may contribute to the dispersal of non-native species, our results highlight the importance of ocean currents driving secondary spread dynamics. Highly interconnected areas hosting invasive species are crucial for secondary spread dynamics on a continental scale. Invasion risk assessments should consider large-scale connectivity patterns and the potential source regions of non-native marine species.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	814-827
Number of pages	14
Journal	Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume	27
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12742
State	Published - Jul 2018

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Funding Information:
Danish Council for Independent Research; Grant/Award Number: DFF-1325-00102B; FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions, Grant/Award Number: MOBILEX, DFF - 1325-00025; EU, BONUS, BMBF, Grant/ Award Number: 03F0682; Excellence Cluster “Future Ocean”, Grant/Award Number: CP1539

Funding Information:
We thank the Global Runoff Data Centre, 56068 Koblenz, Germany for providing river polylines; the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service for ocean model data; Dr C. Clemmesen-Bockelmann, J.-P. Herrmann, Dr A. Szuklarek-Pawełczyk and Dr Felix Mittermayer for Mnemiopsis data from the Baltic; Dr R. Vorberg for published North Sea Mnemiopsis records; Dr A. Nowaczyk and C. Verwimp for dried Mnemiopsis (Bay of Biscay, France; Belgium); Dr H.-U. Riisgaard for discussions; Dr M. Lilley and Dr M. Haraldsson for published Mnemiopsis data; Adriaan Gmelig Meyling and Niels Schrieken (ANEMOON-Foundation) for extracting data and volunteers for their records. This work received funding from the Danish Council for Independent Research and the European Commission (Marie-Curie program) with the DFF-MOBILEX mobility grant number: DFF-1325-00102B (C.J.). Additional support was received from the BIO-C3 project, funded jointly by the EU, BONUS (Art 185) and the national funding agencies in Germany (BMBF grant no. 03F0682), Denmark, Finland and Poland, as well as the Excellence Cluster Future Ocean (CP1539).

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© 2018 The Authors Global Ecology and Biogeography Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Keywords

Mnemiopsis leidyi
biological invasions
gelatinous zooplankton
invasion corridors
invasive species
jellyfish
marine connectivity
range expansion
source populations
source–sink dynamics

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Global and Planetary Change
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology

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Jaspers, C., Huwer, B., Antajan, E., Hosia, A., Hinrichsen, H. H., Biastoch, A., Angel, D., Asmus, R., Augustin, C., Bagheri, S., Beggs, S. E., Balsby, T. J. S., Boersma, M., Bonnet, D., Christensen, J. T., Dänhardt, A., Delpy, F., Falkenhaug, T., Finenko, G., ... Woźniczka, A. (2018). Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(7), 814-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12742

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Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia

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