The annual macroscopic growth pattern of the northern quahog [=hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria (L.)], in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Journal of Shellfish Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 985-993

  Henry, Kelly M ^a,c   Cerrato, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth pattern; Hard clam; Mercenaria mercenaria; Narragansett Bay; Quahog; Sclerochronology

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA;

EID: 38349194496     PISSN: 07308000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2983/0730-8000(2007)26[985:TAMGPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Allard, D. J. 1988. Stable isotopic analyses of selected Narragansett Bay molluscs. M.S., thesis. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. 179 pp.
2. Arnold, W. S., D. C. Marelli, T. M. Bert, D. S. Jones & I. R. Quitmyer. 1991. Habitat-specific growth of hard clams Mercenaria mercenaria (L.) from the Indian River, Florida. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 147:245-265.
3. Bass, A. E., R. E. Malouf & S. E. Shumway. 1990. Growth of northern quahogs (Mercenaria mercenaria [Linnaeus, 1758]) fed on picoplankton. J. Shellfish Res. 9:299-307.
4. Bernstein, D. J. 1987. Prehistoric subsistence at Greenwich Cove, Rhode Island. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton. 498 pp.
5. Bernstein, D. J. 1993. Prehistoric subsistence on the southern New England coast. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc. 188 pp.
6. Borkman, D. G. 2002. Analysis and simulation of Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve annual abundance patterns in lower Narragansett Bay 1959 to 1996. Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. 395 pp.
7. Bricelj, V. M., R. E. Malouf & C. de Quillfeldt. 1984. Growth of juvenile Mercenaria mercenaria and the effect of resuspended bottom sediments. Mar. Biol. 84:167-173.
8. Carmichael, R. H., A. C. Shriver & I. Valiela. 2004. Changes in shell and soft tissue growth, tissue composition, and survival of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, and softshell clams, Mya arenaria, in response to eutrophic-driven changes in food supply and habitat. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 313:75-104.
9. Cerrato, R. M. 2000. What fish biologists should know about bivalve shells. Fish. Res. 46:39-49.
10. Clark, G. R, II. 1979. Seasonal growth variations in the shells of recent and prehistoric specimens of Mercenaria mercenaria from St. Catherines Islands, Georgia. Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 56:161-179.
11. Clemens, S. C. & W. L. Prell. 2003. Data report: Oxygen and carbon isotopes from Site 1146, northern South China Sea. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 184. W. L. Prell, P. Wang, P. Blum, D. K. Rea & S. C. Clemens editors, College Station, TX, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University. 8 pp.
12. Deacutis, C. F., D. Murray, W. Prell, E. Saarman & L. Korhun. 2006. Hypoxia in the upper half of Narragansett Bay, RI, during August 2001 and 2002. Northeast. Nat. 13(Special Issue 4):173-198.
13. Diaz, R. J. & R. Rosenberg. 1995. Marine benthic hypoxia: a review of its ecological effects and the behavioral responses of benthic macrofauna. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 33:245-303.
14. Epstein, S., R. Buchsbaum, H. Lowenstam & H. C. Urey. 1951. Carbonate-water isotopic temperature scale. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 62:417-426.
15. Epstein, S., R. Buchsbaum, H. A. Lowenstam & H. C. Urey. 1953. Revised carbonate-water isotopic temperature scale. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 64:1315-1326.
16. Epstein, S. & H. A. Lowenstam. 1953. Temperature-shell-growth relations of recent and interglacial Pleistocene shoal-water biota from Bermuda. J. Geol. 61:424-438.
17. Fritz, L. W. & D. S. Haven. 1983. Hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria: shell growth patterns in Chesapeake Bay. Fish. Bull. (Wash. D. C.) 81:697-708.
18. Fry, B. 2006. Stable isotope ecology. New York: Springer. 308 pp.
19. Fulweiler, R. W. & S. W. Nixon. Responses of benthic-pelagic coupling to climate change in a temperate estuary. Hydrobiologia (In press).
20. Grizzle, R. E. & R. A. Lutz. 1988. Descriptions of macroscopic banding patterns in sectioned polished shells of Mercenaria mercenaria from southern New Jersey. J. Shellfish Res. 7:367-370.
21. Grizzle, R. E. & P. J. Morin. 1989. Effect of tidal currents, seston, and bottom sediments on growth of Mercenaria mercenaria: results of a field experiment. Mar. Biol. 102:85-93.
22. Hancock, M. E. 1984. Analysis of shellfish remains for seasonality information. In: I. F. P. McManamon, editor. Chapters in the archaeology of Cape Cod. Cultural Resources Management Study 8. National Parks Service, Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 121-156.
23. Helama, S., B. R. Schöne, A. J. Kirchhefer, J. K. Nielsen, D. L. Rodland & R. Janssen. 2007. Compound response of marine and terrestrial ecosystems to varying climate: pre-anthropogenic perspective from bivalve shell growth increments and tree-rings. Mar. Environ. Res. 63:185-199.
24. Henry, K. M. 2007. Understanding environmental influences in the growth pattern and growth rate of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island (USA). M.S. thesis, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. 148 pp.
25. Jones, D. S. 1980. Annual cycle of shell growth increment formation in two continental shelf bivalves and its paleoecological significance. Paleobiology 6:331-340.
26. Jones, D. S. 1981. Repeating layers in the molluscan shell are not always periodic. J. Paleontol. 55:1076-1082.
27. Jones, D. S. 1983. Sclerochronology: Reading the record of the molluscan shell. Am. Sci. 71:384-391.
28. Jones, D. S., M. A. Arthur & D. J. Allard. 1989. Sclerochronological records of temperature and growth from shells of Mercenaria mercenaria from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Mar. Biol. 102:225-234.
29. Jones, D. S. & I. R. Quitmyer. 1996. Marking time with bivalve shells: oxygen isotopes and season of annual increment formation. Palaios 11:340-346.
30. Jones, D. S., I. R. Quitmyer, W. S. Arnold & D. C. Marelli. 1990. Annual shell banding, age, and growth rate of hard clams (Mercenaria spp.) from Florida. J. Shellfish Res. 9:215-225.
31. Jones, D. S., D. F. Williams & M. A. Arthur. 1983. Growth history and ecology of the Atlantic Surf Clam, Spisula solidissima (Dillwyn), as revealed by stable isotopes and annual shell increments. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 73:225-242.
32. Kennish, M. J. & R. K. Olsson. 1975. Effects of thermal discharges on the microstructural growth of Mercenaria mercenaria. Environ. Geol. 1:41-64.
33. Kraeuter, J. N. & M. Castagna. 2001. Biology of the hard clam. New York: Elsevier. 751 pp.
34. Laetz, C. A. 2002. Reconstructing the growth of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, under brown tide conditions. M.S. thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 57 pp.
35. Li, Y. & T. J. Smayda. 1998. Temporal variability of chlorophyll in Narragansett Bay, 1973-1990. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 55:661-667.
36. Murphy, B. R. & D. Erkan. 2006. Survey of the northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Marine technical report, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Fisheries Section, Jamestown, Rhode Island. 54 pp.
37. Narragansett Bay. org. 2007. http://www.narrbay.org/.
38. Nixon, S. W. 1995. Metal inputs to Narragansett Bay: A history and assessment of recent conditions. Rhode Island Sea Grant, Narragansett, RI. 76 pp.
39. Nixon, S. W., B. A. Buckley, S. L. Granger, L. A. Harris, A. J. Oczkowski, R. W. Fulweiler & L. W. Cole. In press. Nutrient (N and P) inputs to Narragansett Bay: Past, present, and future. Rhode Island Sea Grant, Narragansett, RI.
40. Nixon, S. W., S. Granger & B. Buckley. 2003. The warming of Narragansett Bay. 41°N 2:19-20. Rhode Island Sea Grant, Narragansett, RI.
41. Oviatt, C. A. 2004. The changing ecology of temperate coastal waters during a warming trend. Estuaries 27:895-904.
42. Pannella, G. & C. MacClintock. 1968. Biological and environmental rhythms reflected in molluscan shell growth. J. Paleontol. Mem. 42:(Suppl. 5):64-80.
43. Peterson, C. H., P. B. Duncan, H. C. Summerson & B. F. Beal. 1985. Annual band deposition within shells of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria: consistency across habitat near Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Fish. Bull. (Wash. DC) 83:671-677.
44. Peterson, C. H., P. B. Duncan, H. C. Summerson & G. W. Safrit, Jr. 1983. A mark-recapture test of annual periodicity of internal growth band deposition in shells of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, from a population along the southeastern United States. Fish. Bull. (Wash. DC) 81:765-779.
45. Pratt, D. M. & D. A. Campbell. 1956. Environmental factors affecting growth in Venus mercenaria. Limnol. Oceanogr. 1:2-17.
46. Prell, W., D. Murray & C. Deacutis. 2006. Summer-season survey of dissolved oxygen in upper Narragansett Bay beginning in 2005. Data available at: http//www.geo.brown.edu/georesearch/ insomniacs.
47. Prell, W., E. Saarman, D. Murray & C. Deacutis. 2004. Summer-season, nighttime surveys of dissolved oxygen in upper Narragansett Bay. (1999-2003). Data available at: http://www.geo.brown.edu/ georesearch/insomniacs.
48. Quitmyer, I. R., D. S. Jones & W. S. Arnold. 1997. The sclerochronology of hard clams, Mercenaria spp., from the south-eastern USA.: a method of elucidating the zooarchaeological records of seasonal resource procurement and seasonality in prehistoric shell middens. J. Arch. Sci. 24:825-840.
49. Rice, M. A. 1992. The northern quahog: the biology of Mercenaria mercenaria. Rhode Island Sea Grant, Narragansett, RI 60 pp.
50. Rice, M. A. & J. A. Pechenik. 1992. A review of the factors influencing the growth of the northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758). J. Shellfish Res. 11:279-287.
51. Rhoads, D. C. & R. A. Lutz. Skeletal growth of aquatic organisms. Plenum Press, New York. 750 pp.
52. Rhoads, D. C. & G. Pannella. 1970. The use of molluscan shell growth patterns in ecology and paleoecology. Lethaia 3:143-161.
53. Rye, D. M. & M. A. Sommer, II. 1980. Reconstructing paleotemperature and paleosalinity regimes with oxygen isotopes, pp. 169-202. In: D. C. Rhoads & R. A. Lutz, editors. Skeletal growth of aquatic organisms. New York: Plenum Press.
54. Saila, S. B. & S. D. Pratt. 1973. Mid-Atlantic bight fisheries, pp 6-1 to 6-125. In: Coastal and offshore environmental inventory: Cape Hatteras to Nantucket Shoals. Marine Publication Series No. 2. University of Rhode Island.
55. Shöne, B. R. & D. M. Surge. 2005. Looking back over skeletal diaries - high-resolution environmental reconstructions from accretionary hard parts of aquatic organisms. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 228:1-3.
56. Storr, J. F., A. L. Costa & D. A. Prawel. 1982. Effects of temperature on calcium deposition in the hard-shell clam, Mercenaria mercenaria. J. Therm. Biol. 7:57-61.
57. Surge, D. M., K. C. Lohmann & G. A. Goodfriend. 2003. Reconstructing estuarine conditions: oyster shells as recorders of environmental change, southwest Florida. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 57: 737-756.
58. Thébault, J., L. Chauvaud, J. Clavier, J. Guarini, R. B. Dunbar, R. Fichez, D. A. Mucciarone & E. Morize. 2007. Reconstruction of seasonal temperature variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean from the shell of the scallop, Comptopallium radula. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71:918-928.
59. Urey, H. C., H. A. Lowenstam, S. Epstein & C. R. McKinney. 1951. Measurement of paleotemperatures and temperatures of the Upper Cretaceous of England, Denmark, and southeastern United States. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 62:399-416.
60. Weiss, E. T., R. H. Carmichael & I. Valiela. 2002. The effect of nitrogen loading on the growth rates of quahogs (Mercenaria mercenaria) and soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) through changes in food supply. Aquaculture 211:275-289.