RECRUITMENT DISRUPTION AND THE ROLE OF UNAFFECTED POPULATIONS FOR POTENTIAL RECOVERY AFTER THE PINNA NOBILIS MASS MORTALITY EVENT
Kersting DK , Vázquez-Luis M, Mourre B, Zahraa Belkhamssa SF, Álvarez E, Bakran-Petricioli T, Barberá C, Barrajón A, Cortés E, Deudero S, García-March JR, Giacobbe S, Giménez-Casalduero F, González L, Jiménez-Gutiérrez S, Kipson S, Llorente J, Moreno D, Prado P, Pujol JA, Sánchez J, Spinelli A, Valencia JM, Vicente N, Hendriks IE
Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 594378
A devastating mass mortality event (MME) very likely caused by the protozoan Haplosporidium pinnae first detected in 2016 in the Western Mediterranean Sea, is pushing the endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis to near extinction. Populations recovery, if possible, will rely on larval dispersal from unaffected sites and potential recolonization through recruitment of resistant juveniles.
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