Are there habitat salinity markers of the Sr:Ca ratio in the otolith of wild diadromous fishes? A literature survey
Are there habitat salinity markers of the Sr:Ca ratio in the otolith of wild diadromous fishes? A literature survey
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DOI:
10.1007/s10228-011-0220-8
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发表时间:
2011-05
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1.2
通讯作者:
Jian Yang;T. Jiang;Hongbo Liu
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作者:
Jian Yang;T. Jiang;Hongbo Liu
Diadromous fishes may inhabit quite different water environments during their different life history stages. However, it is very difficult to precisely monitor these spatial and temporal dynamics because of the limitations of the most current research methods (eg, catch analysis, biotelemetry, tagging). The basic water environments for fish can be categorized according to their salinity: fresh water, brackish water or seawater. The otoliths are calcified structures primarily composed of calcium carbonate ([90%) and located within the fish inner ear. They can be utilized as environmental markers because of their chemical properties such as the chronological signature in its concentric rings. The ambient environmental scalars and other characteristics in their isotopic and elemental composition (like a fingerprint) remain unmetabolized after deposition; they are derived from the habitat water, and the complete preservation of both spatial and temporal information in their aragonite mineralogy (Secor and Rooker 2000; Thorrold et al. 2001). Otolith microchemistry of trace elements is proving to be a powerful tool in reconstructing the migration chronology of diadromous teleosts in fresh water, estuarine and saltwater habitats (Campana 1999). Teleost fishes have three pairs of otoliths—the sagittae, lapilli and asterisci. The sagittae are usually chosen for element analysis because they are the largest of the three pairs. More recent studies have concentrated efforts on a smaller number of elements, includingCa, Sr, Mg, Mn, Ba and Pb (Thorrold and Swearer 2009). These elements, which are assimilated from the ambient water, accumulate in the body of the fish, including hard tissues including the otoliths. The otolith Sr: Ca ratio of concentrations has been especially used to describe diadromous migrations. Interestingly, Farrell and Campana (1996) reared Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in fresh water and artificially enhanced Sr: Ca conditions to compare the incorporation of Sr and Ca from radioisotope-labeled food and water. Strontium and Ca in the otoliths were primarily derived from water (through gill uptake), with 75% of Ca and 88% of Sr derived from water rather than from food. Similarly, 83% of Sr in otoliths was derived from the surrounding water in marine species (Walther and Thorrold 2006). Consequently, patterns of Sr/Ca variability in fish otoliths have been widely applied as tracers of movement between freshwater and marine habitats, with a direct relationship between Sr/Ca in the otoliths and the water, across a range of estuarine salinities (Kraus and Secor 2004a). However, because all of the validation otolith Sr: Ca ratios in concentration studies to date have been derived separately by different authors even using different analytical approaches, eg, EPMA, LA-ICPMS, PIXE and ion microprobe, it is difficult to assess the applicability of these varying Sr: Ca ratio results for other fish species, and, moreover, if these Sr: Ca ratio data can be summarized to a similar tendency for the habitats of freshwater, brackish water or seawater for diadromous fishes. As a result, interspecific variation in Sr incorporation can only be surmised based on comparisons of published studies. To fill the gap, in this study we reviewed the Sr: Ca ratios of diadromous species reported in the literature so far. Fresh water, brackish water and seawater present significantly different salinity regimes. Secor and Rooker (2000) summarized that the regimes for freshwater,