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The use of tidal growth bands in the shell of Cerastoderma edule to measure seasonal growth rates under cool temperate and sub-arctic conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. A. Richardson ,
D. J. Crisp ,
N. W. Runham  and
LI. D. Gruffydd
C. A. Richardson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd and N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd and N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
N. W. Runham
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd and N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
LI. D. Gruffydd
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of North Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd and N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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It has previously been shown in Cerastoderma edule that during periods of active growth the increments between successive growth bands each correspond to a period of tidal immersion. They can therefore be used to record instantaneous growth rates. For shells which, like Cerastoderma, conform to the Bertalanffy equation, such increments can be used independently of age and size to measure the Bertalanffy constant over brief intervals.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 1980 , pp. 977 - 989
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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