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FISHERIES SCIENCE
Volume 78, Issue 3, Pages 589-595Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s12562-012-0491-7
Keywords
Alien predator; Euspira fortunei; Prey species preference; Mollusks; Tidal flat; Sendai Bay
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [21500861, 1965021]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21500861] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The impact of as an alien predator on fluctuations in population densities of prey mollusks between 2001 and 2010 on the Tona coast, northern Japan, was investigated. This species increased dramatically from 2002 to 2004. In contrast, prey species such as and decreased rapidly from 2001 to 2004, whereas and did not show a significant decrease during this period. Using a laboratory experiment, we were able to show that these decreases in the population densities of some species of mollusks but not other species were the result of species-selective predation by . , as the experiment revealed that . preferred to attack . and . rather than , although the predator did expand its diet to include . after it had consumed 16 of the 20 preferred prey available (i.e., . and . ). This case study suggests that invasive naticid predators have the potential to affect the population density and community structure of prey mollusks in recipient coastal ecosystems through predation.
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