TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hayer, Sarah
A1  - Bick, Andreas
A1  - Brandt, Angelika
A1  - Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
A1  - Fiege, Dieter
A1  - Füting, Susanne
A1  - Krause-Kyora, Ben
A1  - Michalik, Peter
A1  - Reinicke, Götz-Bodo
A1  - Brandis, Dirk
T1  - Coming and going – historical distributions of the European oyster Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 and the introduced slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus, 1758 in the North Sea
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - 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.
KW  - Oysters
KW  - Museum collections
KW  - Oyster farming
KW  - Europe
KW  - Invasive species
KW  - German people
KW  - Species extinction
KW  - Zoology
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51395
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-513955
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - 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.
VL  - 14
IS  - (10): e0224249
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -