Journal
GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002961
Keywords
Bivalvia; Meuse; Rhine; seasonality; Unio; Unionidae
Categories
Funding
- BSIK - Climate changes Spatial Planning
Ask authors/readers for more resources
By means of a monitoring experiment in two rivers in the Netherlands, we establish a relationship between seasonally resolved growth rates in unionid freshwater bivalves and their environment. We reconstructed these seasonally resolved growth rates by using relationships of stable isotopes in the shells and their ambient river water. The reconstructed growth rates reveal that shells grow fastest in spring-early summer, when highest food availability occurs in the rivers. In addition, the reconstructed growth rates show that onset and cessation of growth are mainly influenced by water temperature.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available