期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
卷 522, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2019.151256
关键词
Salinity; Burrowing; Behavioral responses; Bivalves; Thresholds; Benthic-pelagic coupling
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish Government [MARISCO CTM2014-51935-R]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States [NNX11AP77G]
The link between the behavior of organisms living within the sediment and benthic-pelagic coupling is critical to our interpretation of impacts of physiological stress. The rapidity with which organisms respond to a stress and recover once a stress is removed impacts the cascade of secondary effects that result from such behavioral changes. Such behavioral responses, although critical to our understanding, are difficult to quantify, particularly for organisms such as bivalves that inhabit sediments, the most common spatial habitat on Earth. Sublethal responses to fluctuating stressors such as salinity are rarely quantified in terms of activity. Here we do so using a combination of direct observations and pressure sensors, which allow us to record burrowing and other hydraulic activities. Based on our field observations and the literature, we predicted that there would be a breakpoint in behavior between salinities of 15 and 20 and that below this breakpoint the animals would significantly reduce activities including burrowing and feeding. The data presented support this prediction; burrowing was reduced in all three species at salinities at or below 15 as were fecal deposition and appearance of siphons above the sediment surface. These data are consistent with the prediction that under conditions of large fluctuations in salinity the magnitude of the link to primary productivity and nutrient availability from the benthos will be significantly reduced.
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