The Effects of Temperature and Desiccation on Surf Smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) Embryo Development and Hatching Success: Preliminary Field and Laboratory Observations
we conducted a field study to investigate possible environmental factors influencing surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) egg mortality at eight beaches on the southern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Egg mortality was variable, but was positively correlated to air temperature and increased in June and July when maximum temperature was approximately 30°C. In June 2003, we conducted a preliminary laboratory study to investigate the effects of desiccation on surf smelt egg mortality. Results suggested a threshold RH requirement of 80 – 93% for successful development and hatching of surf smelt embryos. Moisture and temperature interact to condition RH in the
intertidal zone. Shade vegetation, which can cool air temperature in the supralittoral zone, may be important for some populations of surf smelt. Further investigations are required to confirm the findings.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007
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Nom de l'organisation Nom de la personne Adresse e-mail Rôle DFO
Colin Levings
Point de recherche Keystone Environmental Ltd.
C.G. Lee
Point de recherche Northwest Scientific Association
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Northwest Science, 81(2):166-171. 2007 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3955/0029-344X-81.2.166 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3955/0029-344X-81.2.166 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses.
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Using both field and laboratory approaches, our preliminary study addressed the following questions: (1) how will temperature and desiccation affect surf smelt embryo development and survival
and (2) is there a mean threshold relative humidity (RH) necessary to facilitate successful hatching? We present a small data set on these topics which
may to useful to guide further work.
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Nom de l'organisation Nom de la personne Adresse e-mail Rôle DFO
Colin Levings
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Développement
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Température
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North Pacific Ocean > Fraser River and BC Interior
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North Pacific Ocean > South Inner Coast(Johnstone Strait, Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca, inlets and passages)
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DFO Areas
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North Pacific Ocean > Fraser River and BC Interior
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North Pacific Ocean > South Inner Coast(Johnstone Strait, Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca, inlets and passages)
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- Océans
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seven beaches in outer Vancouver Harbor, B.C., on 10 occasions between 8 May and 5 July 2002. One site outside the harbor, Furry Creek, on Howe Sound, a fjord adjacent to the harbor, was also sampled
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Between May and July 2002, we conducted a field study to investigate possible environmental factors influencing surf smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) egg mortality at eight beaches on the southern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Egg mortality was variable, but was positively correlated to air temperature and increased in June and July when maximum temperature was approximately 30°C. In June 2003, we conducted a preliminary laboratory study to investigate the effects of desiccation on surf smelt egg mortality. Eggs were randomly placed into four relative humidity (RH) groups: dry (62% RH), moist (80% RH), wet (93% RH) and submerged (100% RH). All eggs in the dry and moist group died by the end of the experiment. Mortality of eggs in the wet and submerged groups was not significantly different (P<0.05). Eggs in the wet group reached the eyed stage and hatched significantly faster (P<0.05) than those in the submerged group. Results suggested a threshold RH requirement of 80 – 93% for successful development and hatching of surf smelt embryos. Moisture and temperature interact to condition RH in the intertidal zone. Shade vegetation, which can cool air temperature in the supralittoral zone, may be important for some populations of surf smelt. Further investigations are required to confirm the findings.
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Nom de l'organisation Nom de la personne Adresse e-mail Rôle Pacific Salmon Foundation
Isobel Pearsall
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https://doi.org/10.48689/52z1-c355 Digital Object Identifier
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Levings produced paper copy. Fraser scanned with Fujitsu Scansnap s1500 (ABBY Finereader OCR software). Data was extracted through Adobe Reader conversion and manual entry into MS Excel.
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North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
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NAP - CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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Nom de l'organisation Nom de la personne Adresse e-mail Rôle Pacific Salmon Foundation
Sarah Fraser
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