Toward the morphometric calibration of the environmental biorecorder Arctica islandica

Owing to its extremely long life span and occurrence in the entire North Atlantic, the Arctic boreal Arctica islandica has become of particular significance for monitoring the environment, because information on past environmental conditions is archived in morphological and biogeochemical properties...

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Published in:Journal of Coastal Research
Main Authors: Begum, Salma, Abele, Doris, Brey, Thomas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: JCR 2019
Subjects:
Arctic
Kattegat
White Sea
Arctica islandica
Iceland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49499/
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49499/1/Begum19_JCoastRes35.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.4e304a29-bccf-46ee-9be4-99bc8b732f19
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Summary:Owing to its extremely long life span and occurrence in the entire North Atlantic, the Arctic boreal Arctica islandica has become of particular significance for monitoring the environment, because information on past environmental conditions is archived in morphological and biogeochemical properties of the calcareous shell. To evaluate whether such properties are comparable between different localities, shell and soft body morphometry of six A. islandica populations, Norwegian Coast, Kattegat, Kiel Bay (Baltic), White Sea, German Bight (North Sea), and off NE Iceland, were compared. Discriminant analysis indicated distinct differences between populations, albeit not related to geographical distance, but more likely to local hydrography, bottom morphology, and food regime.

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