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Routes and rates of larval fish transport from the southeast to the northeast United States continental shelf
Jonathan A. Hare,James H. Churchill,Robert K. Cowen,Thomas J. Berger,Peter Cornillon,Paul Dragos,Scott Glenn,John J. Govoni,Thomas N. Lee +8 more
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In this paper, the Gulf Stream and associated warm-core rings are hypothesized as the physical mechanisms responsible for the northward transport of larval fish originating south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, even as far north as the Scotian shelf.Abstract:
Larval fish originating south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, are frequently found on the continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras, even as far north as the Scotian shelf. The Gulf Stream and associated warm-core rings are hypothesized as the physical mechanisms responsible for the northward transport of larvae. Specifically, larvae spawned along the southeast U.S. continental shelf are entrained into the Gulf Stream, transported to the northeast, regularly incorporated in warm-core ring streamers, transported across the slope region, and released along the shelf edge north of Cape Hatteras. This proposed transport route was evaluated using hydrographic data and drifter tracks that were collected as part of other studies. Continental shelf water that originated south of Cape Hatteras was foundread more
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Larval transport and dispersal in the coastal ocean and consequences for population connectivity
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Are larvae of demersal fishes plankton or nekton
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Occurrence of tropical fishes in temperate southeastern Australia: Role of the East Australian Current
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Thermal tolerance and potential distribution of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles complex) on the east coast of the United States
TL;DR: The lionfish thermal tolerance data indicated that lionfish could overwinter on the southeast United States conti- nental shelf, with a northern limit of Cape Hatteras and an inshore limit coincident with the mean 12°C isotherm, which equates to a 10°C minimum water temperature as discussed by the authors.
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Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that the ubiquity of WA lionfish is the result of dispersal from a single source of introduction in Florida and not of multiple independent introductions across the range, support for five of six major scenarios of connectivity and phylogeographical breaks previously inferred for Caribbean organisms.
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Connectivity of marine populations: open or closed?
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Mortality Rate of Fishes in the Pelagic Ecosystem
Ingrid Peterson,J. S. Wroblewski +1 more
TL;DR: A size-dependent equation for mortality rate (M(w)) of fish-sized particles is derived using preexisting theory on the distribution of biomass as a function of size in the pelagic marine ecosystem, assuming that mortality is primarily due to predation.
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The First Year in the Life of Estuarine Fishes in the Middle Atlantic Bight
Kenneth W. Able,Michael P. Fahay +1 more
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Biological invasion of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans along the Atlantic coast of North America
Paula E. Whitfield,Todd Gardner,Stephen P. Vives,Matthew R. Gilligan,Walter R. Courtenay,G. Carleton Ray,Jonathan A. Hare +6 more
TL;DR: The lionfish Pterois volitans is reported from the western Atlantic Ocean and adults were collected off the coasts of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and juveniles were collected along the shore of Long Island, New York as mentioned in this paper.