The journey of hull-fouling mobile invaders: basibionts and boldness mediate dislodgement risk during transit

Abstract Vessel hull-fouling is responsible for most bioinvasion events in the marine environment, yet it lacks regulation in most countries. Although experts advocate a preventative approach, research efforts on pre-arrival processes are limited. The performance of mobile epifauna during vessel transport was evaluated via laboratory simulations, using the well-known invasive Japanese skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica), and its native congener C. laeviuscula as case study. The invader did not possess any advantage in terms of inherent resistance to drag. Instead, its performance was conditioned by the complexity of secondary substrate. Dislodgement risk was significantly reduced when sessile fouling basibionts were added, which provided refugia and boosted the probability of C. mutica remaining attached from 7 to 65% in flow exposure trials. Interestingly, the invader exhibited significantly higher exploratory tendency and motility than its native congener at zero-flow conditions. Implications in terms of en-route survivorship, invasion success and macrofouling management are discussed.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Biofouling (Print)

• Publication date

  2022-09-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/08927014.2022.2138754PMID 36317602
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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