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TI Feeding and absorption in Cerastoderma edule under environmental conditions in the Bay of Marennes-Oleron (Western France)
BT 
AF URRUTIA, MB
   IGLESIAS, JIP
   NAVARRO, E
   PROU, Jean
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;
C1 Departamento de Biología Animal y Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Apartado 644, E–18080 Bilbao, Spain.
   IFREMER, Station de La Tremblade, UREA, BP 133, F-17390 La Tremblade, France
C2 UNIV BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN
   IFREMER, FRANCE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
IF 0.702
TC 76
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1996/publication-3837.PDF
LA English
DT Article
AB Physiological processes involved in energy acquisition by the filter-feeding bivalve Cerastoderma edule (L.) (Mollusca: Bivalvia) were quantified under naturally fluctuating feeding conditions imposed by tidal cycles in the Bay of Marennes-Oleron. Physiological measurements were performed during two neap and two spring tidal cycles in order to cover a wide range of seston concentrations (TPM = 15-95 mg l super(-1)). The main effect exerted by tides on the food supply was the resuspension of bottom sediments of low organic content, leading to a strong 'dilution' of suspended organic matter. Although filtration rate was found to increase with seston concentration, ingestion rate was strictly regulated by means of pseudofaeces production. Selection efficiencies for chlorophyll a (SE sub(chl)), overall organic matter (SE sub(o)), carbon (SE sub(c)) and nitrogen (SE sub(N)) were estimated and related to dietary descriptors. The following ranking was found for the efficiency with which different substrates were selected: SE sub(chl)>SE sub(N)>SE sub(o)>SE sub(c). Absorption efficiency was found to depend on the organic content of ingested matter according to an exponential saturating function. Observed differences between carbon and nitrogen absorption efficiency were not statistically significant. Absorption rate was kept fairly constant through the wide range of seston concentrations and qualities. Sediment resuspension processes may exert important and variable effects on energy acquisition processes depending on the intensity of resuspension events and the quality of the resuspended matter. 	 
PY 1996
PD MAY
SO Journal Of The Marine Biological Association Of The United Kingdom
SN 0025-3154
PU Cambridge Univ Press
VL 76
IS 2
UT A1996UQ46200012
BP 431
EP 450
DI 10.1017/S0025315400030654
ID 3837
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