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The respiratory performance and survival of the bivalve Macoma balthica (L.) at the southern limit of its distribution area: a translocation experiment
Hummel, H.; Bogaards, R.H.; Bachelet, G.; Caron, F.; Sola, J.C.; Amiard-Triquet, C. (2000). The respiratory performance and survival of the bivalve Macoma balthica (L.) at the southern limit of its distribution area: a translocation experiment. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 251(1): 85-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-0981(00)00208-2
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Trefwoord
    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    Macoma balthica; Distribution limit; Performance; Survival; Respiration; Weight; Glycogen

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  • Hummel, H., correspondent, meer
  • Bogaards, R.H.
  • Bachelet, G., meer
  • Caron, F.
  • Sola, J.C., meer
  • Amiard-Triquet, C., meer

Abstract
    The hypothesis was tested that animals near their extreme Southern limits, due to high temperatures, have a high respiration rate, whereby they reach an extreme low weight-index and ultimately disappear. At estuarine stations the respiration rate of Macoma balthica (L.) (Baltic clam) did not show interseasonal changes, indicating seasonal acclimation, but within the season the respiration increased with increasing temperature, indicating the absence of short-term acclimation. In clams translocated from the Netherlands towards the Bidasoa estuary, 200 km South of their Southern distribution limit, their respiration rate was higher and weight-index lower than in specimens living in Dutch estuaries. Irrespective of an effect of the temperature, clams exposed in experiments to water from Bidasoa showed a higher respiration than clams exposed to water from the other stations. Moreover, at non-estuarine stations with a low food content, the clams showed reversed acclimation, i.e., the respiration rates in winter were much lower than summer rates, most probably a strategy to conserve energy by means of a depressed metabolism. A weight index of 5 mg DW/cm3 and glycogen content of 2% DW are suggested as the minimal values below which the metabolic energy balance of Baltic clams becomes more negative and the clam population disappears. It was concluded that factors other than temperature influenced the respiration and weight-index of clams, and hence their presence or absence, e.g., food concentration, innate seasonal cycles, and possible pollutants in the water.

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