ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH, AGE AND LIFETIME METABOLIC BUDGETS OF THE BIVALVE ARCTICA ISLANDICA SALMA BEGUM 2009 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH, AGE AND LIFETIME METABOLIC BUDGETS OF THE BIVALVE ARCTICA ISLANDICA Doctoral thesis By

• Main Author: Salma Begum
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: the North East Atlantic Ocean (i.e. Norwegian coast; Kattegat; Kiel Bay (Baltic Sea; Salma; Arctica islandica; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic; Ocean quahog
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.427.8014; http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/diss/docs/00011567.pdf

In order to understand the present, environmental knowledge from the past is important. Observational records of environmental data are spatiotemporally incomplete and extremely scarce prior to AD 1860. Large scale environmental variability can be well represented by integrating data from a limited...