- Natural history collections are fundamental for biodiversity research as well as for any applied environment-related research. These collections can be seen as archives of earth´s life providing the basis to address highly relevant scientific questions such as how biodiversity changes in certain environments, either through evolutionary processes in a geological timescale, or by man-made transformation of habitats throughout the last decades and/or centuries. A prominent example is the decline of the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis Linneaus, 1758 in the North Sea and the concomitant invasion of the common limpet slipper Crepidula fornicata, which has been implicated to have negative effects on O. edulis. We used collections to analyse population changes in both species in the North Sea. In order to reconstruct the change in distribution and diversity over the past 200 years, we combined the temporal and spatial information recorded with the collected specimens contained in several European natural history collections. Our data recover the decline of O. edulis in the North Sea from the 19th century to the present and the process of invasion of C. fornicata. Importantly, the decline of O. edulis was nearly completed before C. fornicata appeared in the North Sea, suggesting that the latter had nothing to do with the local extinction of O. edulis in the North Sea.
MetadatenAuthor: | Sarah HayerORCiD, Andreas Bick, Angelika BrandtORCiDGND, Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Dieter Fiege, Susanne Füting, Ben Krause-Kyora, Peter MichalikORCiDGND, Götz-Bodo Reinicke, Dirk BrandisGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-513955 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224249 |
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ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
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Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31648244 |
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Parent Title (English): | PLoS one |
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Publisher: | PLoS |
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Place of publication: | Lawrence, Kan. |
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Contributor(s): | Ulrich Joger |
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Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Year of Completion: | 2019 |
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Date of first Publication: | 2019/10/24 |
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Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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Release Date: | 2019/10/28 |
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Tag: | Europe; German people; Invasive species; Museum collections; Oyster farming; Oysters; Species extinction; Zoology |
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Volume: | 14 |
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Issue: | (10): e0224249 |
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Page Number: | 15 |
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First Page: | 1 |
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Last Page: | 15 |
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Note: | Copyright: © 2019 Hayer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 455389713 |
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Institutes: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft |
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| Biowissenschaften / Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität |
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Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
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Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
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