- Title
- Effects of food quality on tissue-specific isotope ratios in the mussel Perna perna
- Creator
- Hill, Jaclyn M, McQuaid, Christopher D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444563
- Identifier
- vital:74251
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-009-9865-y
- Description
- Investigations into trophic ecology and aquatic food web resolution are increasingly accomplished through stable isotope analysis. The incorporation of dietary and metabolic changes over time results in variations in isotope signatures and turnover rates of producers and consumers at tissue, individual, population and species levels. Consequently, the elucidation of trophic relationships in aquatic systems depends on establishing standard isotope values and tissue turnover rates for the level in question. This study investigated the effect of diet and food quality on isotopic signatures of four mussel tissues: adductor muscle, gonad, gill and mantle tissue from the brown mussel Perna perna. In the laboratory, mussels were fed one of the two isotopically distinct diets for 3 months.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Hydrobiologia, Hill, J.M. and McQuaid, C.D., 2009. Effects of food quality on tissue-specific isotope ratios in the mussel Perna perna. Hydrobiologia, 635(1), pp.81-94, Hydrobiologia volume 635 number 1 81 94 2009 1573-5117
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Hill, Jaclyn Marie (Ms)
McQuaid, Christopher D (Distinguished Professor)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Marine Ecosystems and Resources
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 14. Life Below Water
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