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Estimating long-term trends in populations of two ecosystem engineering burrowing shrimps in Pacific Northwest (USA) estuaries

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Temporal variation in the density and distribution of the burrowing shrimps, Neotrypaea californiensis and Upogebia pugettensis, were compared in two estuaries along the West coast of the United States (USA) where they are recognized as important ecosystem engineers. Since these shrimp construct deep burrows in the sediment, we quantified the relationship between burrow openings and shrimp density (1.5 and 1.7 burrow openings per shrimp for N. californiensis and U. pugettensis, respectively) to permit population abundance estimates to be made over broad landscape scales. Neotrypaea californiensis populations estimated from burrow counts collected using a gridded survey design across representative tide flats declined by 25% between 2008 and 2010 in Yaquina Bay, Oregon and by 67% in Willapa Bay, Washington from 2006 to 2011, but increased again in Willapa Bay by 2014. Upogebia pugettensis had mostly disappeared from Willapa Bay by 2006 and declines were observed in Yaquina Bay, but the magnitude and long-term trajectory of U. pugettensis in this estuary was less clear. These species population fluctuations mirrored those observed in density collected at discrete sampling locations over the same period, equate to large changes in secondary production, and have likely resulted in substantial changes to estuarine habitat and food webs.

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The authors are grateful to a host of field assistants including J. Connely, D. Scarborough, M. Schneider, D. Trobaugh and G. Wendling for the 2002 surveys and Katelyn Bosley, Cara Fritz, Roy Hildenbrand, and Roxanna Hintzman for 2008 and 2010 surveys and multiple other assistants including Kristine Feldman and others for long-term density assessments. We especially thank the Lincoln County CSC-OYCC crew and their leader Jack Chapman for their dedicated 2008 field sampling effort. Thanks to Ina-Waring Enriguez and Andrea Burton for assisting with burrow casts and analyzing that data and Dacey Mercer for updating and re-analyzing population survey data to produce new maps. The manuscript was greatly improved by several reviewers including Fiona Bird, Kristine Feldman, and Bob Ozretich who reviewed and early draft, and 3 anonymous reviewers of this latest version. This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (CRIS Project 2072-63000-004-00D) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, which have subjected it to agency review and approved it for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.

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    Brett R. Dumbauld & Lee M. McCoy

  2. National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Newport, OR, 97365, USA

    Theodore H. DeWitt

  3. Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, 97365, USA

    John W. Chapman

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Dumbauld, B.R., McCoy, L.M., DeWitt, T.H. et al. Estimating long-term trends in populations of two ecosystem engineering burrowing shrimps in Pacific Northwest (USA) estuaries. Hydrobiologia 848, 993–1013 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04544-7

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