Effects of background concentrations of Aureococcus anophagefferens (brown tide) on growth and feeding in the bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 274, Issue , 2004, Pages 171-181

  Greenfield, Dianne I ^a   Lonsdale, Darcy J ^a   Cerrato, Robert M ^a   Lopez, Glenn R ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption efficiency; Bivalve growth; Great South Bay; Hard clam; Long Island; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

BROWN TIDE; DIET; FILTER FEEDER; GROWTH; TOXIC ORGANISM;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; BIVALVIA; CLOSTERIUM; INVERTEBRATA; ISOCHRYSIS GALBANA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA; NITZSCHIA; NITZSCHIA CLOSTERIUM; THALASSIOSIRA; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; VENERIDAE;

EID: 3142719325     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps274171     Document Type: Article

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