Sensitivity to stress of the estuarine bivalve Macoma balthica from areas between the Netherlands and its southern limits (Gironde)

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 315-321

  Hummel, H ^a   Amiard Triquet, C ^b   Bachelet, G ^c   Desprez, M ^d   Marchand, J ^b   Sylvand, B ^d,e   Amiard, J C ^b   Rybarczyk, H ^d   Bogaards, R H ^a   Sinke, J ^a   De Wit, Y ^a   De Wolf, L ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d GEMEL Picardie   (France)

^e Station Marine   (France)

Author keywords

age; bivalves; burrowing rate; condition; copper; ecophysiology; estuaries; geographic cline; glycogen; limit of distribution; Macoma balthica; mortality; stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MACOMA BALTHICA;

COPPER; GLYCOGEN;

BURROWING RATE; COPPER; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ESTUARY; GEOCLINES; MORTALITY; STARVATION;

ADULT; BIVALVE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ESTUARY; FRANCE; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; SPECIES; STARVATION;

FRANCE; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0029839405     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-1101(96)90758-3     Document Type: Article

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