The Mediterranean deep-water kelp Laminaria rodriguezii is an endangered species in the Adriatic Sea

Ante Žuljevic´; Akira F. Peters; Vedran Nikolić; Boris  Antolić; Marija  Despalatović; Ivan  Cvitković; Igor  Isajlović; Hrvoje Mihanović; Slavica Matijević; Dawn Margaret Shewring; Simonepietro Canese; Christos Katsaros; Frithjof C Kuepper

doi:10.1007/s00227-016-2821-2

The Mediterranean deep-water kelp Laminaria rodriguezii is an endangered species in the Adriatic Sea

Ante Žuljevic´
, Akira F. Peters
, Vedran Nikolić
, Boris Antolić
, Marija Despalatović
, Ivan Cvitković
, Igor Isajlović
, Hrvoje Mihanović
, Slavica Matijević
, Dawn Margaret Shewring
, Simonepietro Canese
, Christos Katsaros
, Frithjof C Kuepper^* (Corresponding Author)

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
University of Athens

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Abstract

Deep-water kelps are little-known large brown algae occurring close to the lower limit of photosynthetic life in the sea. This study compares historical and recent records of the deep-water Mediterranean kelp Laminaria rodriguezii in the Adriatic Sea. Historical records include data from herbarium collections and trawling fishery expeditions in the mid-twentieth century, while recent data comprise records of the last 17 years from MEDITS expeditions, ROV surveys of historical kelp locations, benthic surveys and records by fishermen. Altogether, these findings demonstrate that the Adriatic population of L. rodriguezii has suffered a decline of more than 85 % of its historical range and is now present only around the small offshore island of Palagruža. Bottom trawling activities are presumably responsible for the disappearance elsewhere. We propose to classify L. rodriguezii as “Endangered” in the Adriatic Sea under IUCN criteria B1ab(i,iii,iv), ver 3.1. Oceanographic characteristics of the habitat suggest that besides high water transparency, presence of North Adriatic Dense Water with both strong currents and stable low temperatures of around 14 °C are essential oceanographic factors for the development of L. rodriguezii in the Central Adriatic. The origin of cold water thus differs from that at upwelling sites permitting populations of tropical deep-water kelps. The phylogenetic position of L. rodriguezii is so far unknown. DNA sequences from nuclear and cytoplasmic markers of two thalli from Croatia and the western Mediterranean confirmed that L. rodriguezii is a member of the Laminariaceae and most closely related to L. ochroleuca, L. pallida and the Brazilian deep-water kelp L. abyssalis.

Original language	English
Article number	69
Number of pages	12
Journal	Marine Biology
Volume	163
Early online date	14 Mar 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2821-2
Publication status	Published - Apr 2016

Bibliographical note

Thanks are due to Klaus Lüning for a gametophyte culture of L. abyssalis, and to Britta Schaffelke for a herbarium specimen of L. rodriguezii from the western Mediterranean. We are grateful to the Total Foundation (Paris) for funding this study within the framework of the project “Brown algal ecology and biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea”, and to the MASTS pooling initiative (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, funded by the Scottish Funding Council and contributing institutions; grant reference HR09011), as well as Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports for supporting project “Benthic communities in the Adriatic Sea (Project ID: 0001005)”.
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endangered algae
Circalittoral
cox1
Rubisco spacer
ITS
kelp
bottom trawling
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Žuljevic´, A., Peters, A. F., Nikolić, V., Antolić, B., Despalatović, M., Cvitković, I., Isajlović, I., Mihanović, H., Matijević, S., Shewring, D. M., Canese, S., Katsaros, C., & Kuepper, F. C. (2016). The Mediterranean deep-water kelp Laminaria rodriguezii is an endangered species in the Adriatic Sea. Marine Biology, 163, Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2821-2

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