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Slater, Wencheng Liu.

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Surviving the Dead Zone: Interactions among Jellyfish, Copepods, and Fish in the Chesapeake Bay.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surviving the Dead Zone: Interactions among Jellyfish, Copepods, and Fish in the Chesapeake Bay./
Author:	Slater, Wencheng Liu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	209 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-02B.
Subject:	Biological oceanography. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27738209
ISBN:	9798662468696

Surviving the Dead Zone: Interactions among Jellyfish, Copepods, and Fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
Slater, Wencheng Liu.

Surviving the Dead Zone: Interactions among Jellyfish, Copepods, and Fish in the Chesapeake Bay. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 209 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The oxygen-deficient areas (dissolved oxygen < 2 mg L−1) in oceans and estuaries have been increasing worldwide in recent decades and are especially common in populated and developed areas due to eutrophication and warming. The objectives of this dissertation were to understand the effects of hypoxia on zooplankton and the plankton foodweb in the Chesapeake Bay. The study focused on copepod (Acartia tonsa) and its major predators bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli), comb jellyfish (Mnemiopsis leidyi), and bay nettle (Chrysaora chesapeakii) with data collected during six cruises in 2010 and 2011 and an individual-based model. Oxygen deficiency was evaluated with both dissolved oxygen concentration (DO < 2 mg L−1) and the oxygen supply and demand of the copepod (pO2 < Pcrit). The effects of hypoxia on zooplankton concentrations were estimated with net tows, and the impact of hypoxia on the plankton foodweb were quantified by comparing copepods' nonpredatory mortality (estimated with neutral red experiments) and predatory mortality (estimated with gut contents of comb jellyfish and bay anchovy). A copepod behavior model was also built to examine how stress-induced behavior affected copepod vertical distributions and the tradeoffs between avoiding both hypoxia and predation. The results indicated the impact of oxygen deficiency could be underestimated using solely the metric of dissolved oxygen, especially under warm and saline conditions. Both copepod and planktivorous fish concentrations were lower under hypoxic conditions, but gelatinous zooplankton concentrations were higher. Both nonpredatory and predatory mortality of copepods were higher under hypoxic conditions, suggesting a direct linkage between hypoxia and decreasing copepod abundance. Most importantly, the source of copepod mortality changed with both hypoxic severity and season: the relative importance shifted from nonpredatory in spring to a combination of predatory and nonpredatory in summer and autumn, and the dominant predators shifted from juvenile bay anchovies under moderate hypoxia to comb jellyfish under warm and severely hypoxic conditions. The model demonstrated how enhancing stress avoidance would result in aggregating at a shallower depth and thus increasing predation risk, supporting the hypothesis that behavior change under hypoxia may increase predatory mortality. Overall my research has shown that hypoxia directly decreases zooplankton abundance and increases predation impact, and avoiding hypoxia could contribute to higher predation impact.

ISBN: 9798662468696Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122748
Biological oceanography.
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Behavior

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