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Rate of natural mortality in the sea star Archaster angulatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2017

John K. Keesing
John K. Keesing*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, M097, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009, Australia
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Correspondence should be addressed to: J. K. Keesing, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, M097, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009, Australia Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The population size structure from a total of 876 individuals, together with published values of growth rate, maximum size and size at age were used to estimate an instantaneous rate of natural mortality (M) of 0.46–0.59 year−1 in a population of the sea star Archaster angulatus from south-western Australia. Peak abundance (17%) of all animals sampled was 105–109 mm arm radius (means of 4.2–4.8 years of age) and only one per cent of sea stars are predicted to live beyond 8 years in the population studied. There are few comparable studies on sea stars but when compared with rates of natural mortality in other echinoderms (sea urchins), A. angulatus is intermediate among species which exhibit the extremes of life history strategies, that is, those which grow very rapidly and may live just two years or less and those with very slow growth rates and which may live for decades.

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Echinodermasteroidgrowthnatural mortalitylongevity
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 98 , Issue 7 , November 2018 , pp. 1689 - 1693
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2017 

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