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Gigas (B) showing large larval networks in the Salish Sea to the north and in Southern California to the south. Networks are similar in size and location between species but not identical. Lurida have expanded southward over time, from latitude 30° 36’ S (Bahia de San Quintin) to 26° 80’ S (Estero El Coyote). Since this estuary had not previously been surveyed, it is not clear whether this is a range expansion or simply an expansion of knowledge.
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Lurida records of presence originated from publications (56%) versus unpublished (41%) and iNaturalist records (3%). Gigas records of presence originated from unpublished records (54%), compared to iNaturalist (30%) and published literature (17%). Gigas was recorded on iNaturalist an order of magnitude more often than O.
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In Willapa Bay, Washington, only two records were included in the review before 2000 and, because M. Gigas was documented as absent in both, recent establishment might be concluded, but other evidence supports populations throughout the southern and eastern arms of the bay since 1936 [41]. Repeat surveys did not detect any loss from an estuary where the species was previously reported.
Chill the sauce in the refrigerator while you shuck the oysters. In 1941 Al Levy was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery with a Jewish service at the Wee Kirk o’ the Heather. That year there were 30 times as many people living in Los Angeles as when he’d arrived half a century before. The oyster cocktail king had fed four generations of them. With the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, Levy announced he would once again use wine in cooking at both his restaurants.
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“Recruits” are juvenile oysters that settle onto substrate and grow into adult members of the population. To track recruitment in locations of interest around Puget Sound, we deploy recruitment stations (stacked Pacific oyster shells on wooden dowels) in early summer, when Olympia oysters typically begin to spawn, and collect the stations in early fall. We can then count how many juvenile Olympia oysters have settled on each shell face at each recruitment station. This provides a snapshot of oyster population dynamics at sites all around the Sound, which in turn helps us make decisions about where to focus our restoration efforts. It is fascinating to see which embayments are the big performers from year to year! Recruitment monitoring at far-flung places would not be possible without the help of our many partners.
Lessons learned and conservation recommendations for O. lurida
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In fact, the non-native species is currently present in more estuaries (63 versus 52) across the geographic range of O. However, in southern California, aquaculture has only occurred for significant time in the Santa Barbara channel and in Agua Hedionda lagoon, while it has established much more broadly throughout southern California estuaries where aquaculture never existed. Indeed in a U.S. west coast estuaries survey published in 1991, M. Gigas was not detected in any southern California estuaries south of Morro Bay [55]. Regardless of the source of introduction, the synergy of a high level of connectivity among southern California estuaries (e.g., large larval networks) and recent warming waters [57, 58] have generated ideal conditions for further M.
Such landscape ecology approaches remain rare for marine foundation species, but our results illustrate their utility. Our mapping of distribution and abundance of a native oyster across its entire range yielded novel insights that were not evident from previous characterizations at the level of individual estuaries or smaller regions. For conservation organizations or funding organizations that operate at a large scale, a range-wide assessment can reveal critical areas, with the biggest returns for conservation investment. In our case, the study revealed that Mexico, northern California and Oregon appear to have the most imperiled oyster populations, and yet an earlier synthesis revealed that these areas have had little investment in restoration [28]. This finding will spark future investments.
For the purposes of sharing these data publicly, however, we removed the coordinates of those records from our database and removed the records entirely from the Portal (though they were used to generate the networks described below). PSRF began the Olympia oyster Recruitment Monitoring program in 2014. It has expanded every year since thanks to many partners.
Adult network size could not be calculated for the northern estuaries since no geospatial layer of estuarine boundaries was available. We used the larval network as replicate for this analysis, which involved fairly limited sample sizes. Lurida, there were 6, 6, and 2 networks for the North, Central, and South, respectively; for M. Gigas spread, it is striking that most of the records of its presence were from unpublished records and iNaturalist (84% of records compared to 44% for O. lurida).
Canada, Washington, and Southern California comprised 71% of O. Gigas presence records, whereas Mexico comprised just 1% of total records for both species (Fig 4). We generated “networks” that encompassed groups of sites with adult oysters present, which might plausibly be linked through larval dispersal (see Fig 2 for example). Lurida larvae can successfully recruit after traveling as far as 75 km if currents are favorable [31], but 30 km was used as a limit to dispersal by Wasson et al. [32].
Such spatiotemporal information allows conservation practitioners to more effectively target their efforts, for example, by protecting the most extensive remaining populations or restoring species to areas that have experienced declines. Thus, pro-actively identifying and conserving foundation species is likely the most economical and effective means to sustain their populations and the ecosystem services that they provide [9]. Information on past distribution and abundance usually resides in many different records that can be challenging to integrate. Thorough quantitative characterizations often occur well after declines have begun, either because declines began so long ago and/or because little attention was paid initially to common-place, ubiquitous species. Information on current distribution and abundance can also be challenging to integrate across the large geographic scales that correspond to the ranges of many coastal foundation species. The distribution of the two species is similar and the northern range limits are at similar latitudes, although M.
Four estuaries had major changes in abundance; these were all declines and occurred at one estuary each in Washington and Oregon and two in Northern California (Fig 8). Records are color-coded according to whether one, the other, both, or neither species were documented as present during this period. Note that in some cases, records overlay each other.
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