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Some like it hot: the effect of temperature on brood development in the invasive crab Hemigrapsus takanoi (Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2012

Anneke van den Brink ,
Mandy Godschalk ,
Aad Smaal ,
Han Lindeboom  and
Colin McLay
Anneke van den Brink*
Affiliation:
IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, Korringaweg 5, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
Mandy Godschalk
Affiliation:
IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, Korringaweg 5, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
Aad Smaal
Affiliation:
IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, Korringaweg 5, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
Han Lindeboom
Affiliation:
IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, Korringaweg 5, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands
Colin McLay
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Canterbury University, PB 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: A. van den Brink, IMARES, part of Wageningen UR, Korringaweg 5, Yerseke 4401 NT, The Netherlands email: anneke.brink@gmail.com
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Abstract

The duration of brood development in the introduced crab, Hemigrapsus takanoi in the Oosterschelde, The Netherlands, was compared at three different water temperatures. At 12, 18 and 24°C the females took an average of 32, 11 and 8 days respectively to lay eggs, which took 86, 28 and 18 days respectively to complete development. Five stages of development were identified, with each brood stage comprising a similar proportion of the duration time at different temperatures. The duration of each brood stage was also somewhat proportional to the number of females found carrying each brood stage in the field at the beginning of the breeding season. There appears to be a trigger for the breeding season in H. takanoi in the field at around 15°C above which ovary development begins. The results suggest that an increase in water temperature as a result of climate change may result in an increased net reproductive rate in H. takanoi due to earlier onset of the breeding season and increased number of broods per inter-moult period resulting in population growth. Increased temperatures may therefore lead to increased invasiveness of H. takanoi where it is already present, and range extension into locations where its establishment is currently excluded by unsuitable temperature.

Keywords

Hemigrapsus takanoiincubation durationegg developmenttemperature effectbrood stagefecunditynet reproductive rateinvasive crab
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 189 - 196
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012

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