'Flying barnacles': implications for the spread of non-indigenous species
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'Flying barnacles' : implications for the spread of non-indigenous species. / Tøttrup, Anders P; Chan, Benny K K; Koskinen, Hannu; Høeg, Jens Thorvald.
In: Biofouling, Vol. 26, No. 5, 2010, p. 577-582.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - 'Flying barnacles'
T2 - implications for the spread of non-indigenous species
AU - Tøttrup, Anders P
AU - Chan, Benny K K
AU - Koskinen, Hannu
AU - Høeg, Jens Thorvald
N1 - Keywords: avian migrants; dispersal; settlement; Fistulobalanus; Larus fuscus; invasive species
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The presence of adult barnacles of Fistulobalanus pallidus (Darwin) and Fistulobalanus albicostatus (Pilsbry) attached to field-readable plastic leg rings on the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in Northern Europe is reported. L. fuscus is a long-distance palaearctic migrant, breeding in temperate areas spreading widely over inland and marine habitats outside the breeding season. The species is known to perform long-distance migration to Africa and the Middle East. Combining present knowledge on the birds' migratory pattern and the home range of the barnacle species, it is concluded that the cypris larvae of F. pallidus must have settled in African waters, whereas the area where F. albicostatus settled on the bird leg rings is less certain. The barnacles were of adult size and must thus have been attached for a period of no less than 2 months. More than 30 individual barnacles could occur together on a single field-readable plastic leg ring. The barnacles could therefore, if ported alive to a new area, reproduce successfully and thus either introduce the species or genetically affect other native populations. This may pose a new and wholly unexpected transportation pathway for barnacles as invasive species.
AB - The presence of adult barnacles of Fistulobalanus pallidus (Darwin) and Fistulobalanus albicostatus (Pilsbry) attached to field-readable plastic leg rings on the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in Northern Europe is reported. L. fuscus is a long-distance palaearctic migrant, breeding in temperate areas spreading widely over inland and marine habitats outside the breeding season. The species is known to perform long-distance migration to Africa and the Middle East. Combining present knowledge on the birds' migratory pattern and the home range of the barnacle species, it is concluded that the cypris larvae of F. pallidus must have settled in African waters, whereas the area where F. albicostatus settled on the bird leg rings is less certain. The barnacles were of adult size and must thus have been attached for a period of no less than 2 months. More than 30 individual barnacles could occur together on a single field-readable plastic leg ring. The barnacles could therefore, if ported alive to a new area, reproduce successfully and thus either introduce the species or genetically affect other native populations. This may pose a new and wholly unexpected transportation pathway for barnacles as invasive species.
KW - Africa
KW - Animal Migration
KW - Animals
KW - Charadriiformes
KW - Environmental Monitoring
KW - Europe
KW - Flight, Animal
KW - Middle East
KW - Plastics
KW - Seasons
KW - Species Specificity
KW - Thoracica
U2 - 10.1080/08927014.2010.489203
DO - 10.1080/08927014.2010.489203
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 20544434
VL - 26
SP - 577
EP - 582
JO - Biofouling
JF - Biofouling
SN - 0892-7014
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 21655672