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Purroy, Ariadna; Najdek, Mirjana; Isla, Enrique; Zupan, Ivan; Thebault, Julien; Peharda, Melita. |
The trophic ecology of two bivalves, the clam Callista chione and the cockle Glycymeris bimaculata was studied using environmental and biochemical variables of the suspended particulate matter and the sediment. Samples were collected from two shallow sites, Pag and Cetina, in the coastal oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea, during a 17 month period. The temporal variation of the particulate matter reflected a mixture between marine and terrestrial sources throughout the year, with a clear marine influence during summer and fall, and predominance of terrestrial inputs during spring and winter. The digestive gland was a useful rapid turnover tissue, where the carbon isotope signal was species-specific and the nitrogen isotope one was site-specific. FA markers in... |
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Palavras-chave: Feeding ecology; Bivalves; Suspension feeder; Biochemical variables; Stable isotopes; Fatty acids; Adriatic sea; Niche partitioning; Coastal ecosystems. |
Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00463/57478/59596.pdf |
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Purroy, Ariadna; Segvic-bubic, Tanja; Holmes, Anna; Buselic, Ivana; Thebault, Julien; Featherstone, Amy; Peharda, Melita. |
Morphological and molecular tools were combined to resolve the misidentification between Glycymeris glycymeris and Glycymeris pilosa from Atlantic and Mediterranean populations. The ambiguous literature on the taxonomic status of these species requires this confirmation as a baseline to studies on their ecology and sclerochronology. We used classical and landmark-based morphometric approaches and performed bivariate and multivariate analyses to test for shell character interactions at the individual and population level. Both approaches generated complementary information. The former showed the shell width to length ratio and the valve asymmetry to be the main discriminant characters between Atlantic and Mediterranean populations. Additionally, the... |
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Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00354/46566/72953.pdf |
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