In:
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 90, No. 5 ( 2010-08), p. 1019-1023
Abstract:
Metabolism and growth rate of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria , were investigated in a population invasive to Southampton Water, southern England. An individual metabolic model expressed as a function of soft tissue dry mass was fitted to data of 18 individuals (log (VO 2 ) = −1.952 + 0.543 • log (DM); F 1,16 = 201.18, P 〈 0.001, r 2 = 0.926). A von Bertalanffy growth function was fitted to 227 size-at-age data pairs of 18 individuals (H t = 80.13 • (1 − e −0.149 • (t−0.542) ); r 2 = 0.927). Individual age-specific somatic production was calculated, demonstrating increase with age to a maximum of 3.88 kJ y −1 at ten years old followed by decrease, and individual age-specific annual respiration was calculated, demonstrating asymptotic increase with age to 231.37 kJ y −1 at 30 years old. Results found here lie within the physiological tolerances reported across the biogeographical range, suggesting that the species' biogeographical limitation in the UK to Southampton Water results from ecological rather than physiological factors.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0025-3154
,
1469-7769
DOI:
10.1017/S0025315409991470
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2010
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1491269-7
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281325-7
SSG:
12
