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OECOLOGIA
卷 183, 期 3, 页码 809-819出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3811-x
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Prey naivete; Local adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity; Urosalpinx cinerea; Ostrea lurida
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资金
- STAR Fellowship - US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [FP-917430]
- National Science Foundation [OCE-1041089, OCE-1220648]
- UC Multicampus Research Programs & Initiatives Grant
- Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center, Point Reyes National Seashore
The prey naivete hypothesis suggests that native prey may be vulnerable to introduced predators because they have not evolved appropriate defenses. However, recent evidence suggests that native prey sometimes exhibit induced defenses to introduced predators, as a result of rapid evolution or other processes. We examined whether Olympia oysters (Ostrea lurida) display inducible defenses in the presence of an invasive predator, the Atlantic oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), and whether these responses vary among oyster populations from estuaries with and without this predator. We spawned oysters from six populations distributed among three estuaries in northern California, USA, and raised their offspring through two generations under common conditions to minimize effects of environmental history. We exposed second-generation oysters to cue treatments: drills eating oysters, drills eating barnacles, or control seawater. Oysters from all populations grew smaller shells when exposed to drill cues, and grew thicker and harder shells when those drills were eating oysters. Oysters exposed to drills eating other oysters were subsequently preyed upon at a slower rate. Although all oyster populations exhibited inducible defenses, oysters from the estuary with the greatest exposure to drills grew the smallest shells suggesting that oyster populations have evolved adaptive differences in the strength of their responses to predators. Our findings add to a growing body of literature that suggests that marine prey may be less likely to exhibit naivete in the face of invasive predators than prey in communities that are more isolated from native predators, such as many freshwater and terrestrial island ecosystems.
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