Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 68, Issue 1-2, Pages 38-45Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.12.027
Keywords
Green mussel; Mussel density; Filtration rate; Nutrient uptake; Kinetics
Funding
- Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. program (RGJ) under the Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
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This study investigates green mussel filtration rates based on variation of the mussel size and density, and attempts to correlate these with the amount of Chaetoceros calcitrans consumed by kinetic modeling. The filtration rates were found to be more effective in small mussels and with greater volumes of seawater/mussel which represent low mussel densities in the mussel farms. Under field condition, the first order kinetic model is useful for evaluation of mussel filtration rate. However, the composite exponential kinetic model was determined to better describe filtration rates in a close system. Higher ratios of seawater volume L/g DW mussel tissue, resulted in an increasing filtration rate until a maximum plateau was reached at 10.37 L/h/g DW tissue as determined by first order kinetics. Based on the filtration rate, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus uptake by green mussels were found to be 2128.72, 265.41, and 66.67 mg/year/indv, respectively. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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