Identification, Abundance and Rearing of Mysids of Gran Canaria: aplication to laboratory and oceanographic respiratory metabolism studies

Programa de doctorado en Oceanografía

Lost at sea: Genetic, oceanographic and meteorological evidence for storm-forced dispersal

[EN] For many species, there is broad-scale dispersal of juvenile stages and/or long-distance migration of individuals and hence the processes that drive these various wide-ranging move- ments have important life-history consequences. Sea turtles are one of these paradigmatic long-distance travellers, with hatchlings thought to be dispersed by ocean currents and adults often shuttling between distant breeding and foraging grounds. Here, we use multi- disciplinary oceanographic, atmospheric and genetic mixed stock analyses to show that juvenile turtles are encountered ‘downstream’ at sites predicted by currents. However, in some cases, unusual occurrences of juveniles are more readily explained by storm events and we show that juvenile turtles may be displaced thousands of kilometres from their expected dispersal based on prevailing ocean currents.

Lost at sea: Genetic, oceanographic and meteorological evidence for storm-forced dispersal

[EN] For many species, there is broad-scale dispersal of juvenile stages and/or long-distance migration of individuals and hence the processes that drive these various wide-ranging move- ments have important life-history consequences. Sea turtles are one of these paradigmatic long-distance travellers, with hatchlings thought to be dispersed by ocean currents and adults often shuttling between distant breeding and foraging grounds. Here, we use multi- disciplinary oceanographic, atmospheric and genetic mixed stock analyses to show that juvenile turtles are encountered ‘downstream’ at sites predicted by currents. However, in some cases, unusual occurrences of juveniles are more readily explained by storm events and we show that juvenile turtles may be displaced thousands of kilometres from their expected dispersal based on prevailing ocean currents.

Study of the oceanographic conditions in the Caribbean in 2003

[EN]A meridional hydrographic section was made in October 2003 at 66ºW from the coast of Venezuela to Puerto Rico. In this report, we concentrate from surface to 1700 m depth in the Caribbean. The data show two distinct water masses with different origins: Caribbean Surface Water, with salinity values less that 35.5, and Subtropical Underwater (SUW), with subsurface salinity higher than 37, with their source in the North Atlantic and subtropics respectively, as previously observed. Different velocity patterns in the water masses from Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean are observed. Mass transport through the section is westward and about 30 Sv that matches the transport of the Florida Current.