Shell deformations in the Baltic clam Macoma balthica from southern Baltic Sea (the Gulf of Gdansk): Hypotheses on environmental effects

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-100

  Sokołowski, Adam ^a   Pawlikowski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Wołowicz, Maciej ^a,c,d   Garcia, Pascale ^e   Namieśnik, Jacek ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Department of Marine Ecosystem Functioning ^*

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^f GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIVALVE; DEFORMATION; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDEX METHOD; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; SHELL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF GDANSK;

BIVALVIA; MACOMA BALTHICA;

EID: 43249084166     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[93:SDITBC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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50. Acknowledgments: This work was partly supported by funds of the French-Polish Scientific and Technological Cooperation Joint Project "POLONIUM" provided by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, France, and The Committee of Scientific Research, Poland. Thanks are due to Paulina Chaber for her assistance in geological and metal analyses in the sediments.
51. First submitted 6 September 2005. Accepted for publication 6 June 2007.