Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: Estonia/Pärnu Bay in the Gulf of Riga (1855, Birnbaum 2011; Leppakoski et al. 2002)
Geographic Extent
Estonia/Pärnu Bay in the Gulf of Riga (1855, Birnbaum 2011; Leppakoski et al. 2002); Lithuania/Gulf of Riga (Strayer and Smith 1993)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Probable | Canal |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Habitat Change | |
| Moderate habitat impacts (Zaiko et al. 2011). | ||
| Ecological Impact | Trophic Cascade | |
| Moderate ecosystem impacts (Zaiko et al. 2011). | ||
| Ecological Impact | Herbivory | |
| Rates of feeding and deposition of feces and pseudofeces in the brackish Gulf of Riga were about 1/10 of those of Zebra Mussels in freshwater lakes, so impacts are expected to be smaller (Lauringson et al. 2007). Feeding rates are affected by salinity, windspeed, and chlorophyll concentrations (Oganjan and Lauringson 2014). | ||
References
Box, Antonio; Sureda, Antoni; Tauler, Pere;Terrados, Jorge; Marba, Nuria; Pons, Antoni Deudero, Salud (2010) Seasonality of caulerpenyne content in native Caulerpa prolifera and invasive C. taxifolia and C. racemosa var.cylindracea in the western Mediterranean Sea, Botanica Marina 53: 367-375Laverty, Ciaran; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Dick, Jaimie T.A.; Lucy, Frances E. (2015) Alien aquatics in Europe: assessing the relative environmental and socioeconomic impacts of invasive aquatic macroinvertebrates and other taxa, Management of Biological Invasions 6: In Press
Leppakoski, Erkki and 5 authors (2002) The Baltic -- a sea of invaders., Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 59: 1175-1188
Oganjan, Katarina; Lauringson, Velda (2014) Grazing rate of zebra mussel in a shallow eutrophicated bay of the Baltic Sea, Marine Environmental Research 102: 43-50
Ojaveer, Henn; Kotta, Jonne; Pollumae, Arno; Pollupuu, Maria; Jaanus, Andres; Vetemaa, Markus (2011) Alien species in a brackish water temperate ecosystem: Annual-scale dynamics in response to environmental variability, Environmental Research 111: 933-942
Strayer, David L.; Smith, Lane C. (1993) Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. Pp. 715-726
Zaiko, Anastasija; Lehtiniemi, Maiju; Narscius, Aleksas; Olenin, Sergej (2011) Assessment of bioinvasion impacts on a regional scale: a comparative approach, Biological Invasions 13: 1739-1765