Data from: Buried alive: the behavioural response of the mussels, Modiolus modiolus and Mytilus edulis to sudden burial by sediment ...
Sedimentation in the sea occurs through natural processes, such as wave and tidal action, which can be exacerbated during storms and floods. Changes in terrestrial land use, marine aggregate extraction, dredging, drilling and mining are known to result in substantial sediment deposition. Research su...
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Dryad
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.60084 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.60084 |
| Summary: | Sedimentation in the sea occurs through natural processes, such as wave and tidal action, which can be exacerbated during storms and floods. Changes in terrestrial land use, marine aggregate extraction, dredging, drilling and mining are known to result in substantial sediment deposition. Research suggests that deposition will also occur due to the modern development of marine renewable energy. The response to individual burial under three depths of sediment, three sediment fractions and five burial durations was investigated in two mussel species, Modiolus modiolus and Mytilus edulis in specialist mesocosms. Both mussel species showed substantial mortality, which increased with duration of burial and burial by finer sediment fractions. M. modiolus was better able to survive short periods of burial than M. edulis, but at longer durations mortality was more pronounced. No mortality was observed in M. modiolus in burial durations of eight days or less but by 16 days of burial, over 50% cumulative mortality ... : Hutchison et al Mussel Burial DataIndexed data where: VORT = experimental tank number; duration = burial time in days; depth = burial depth in cm; sediment = c coarse, m medium, f fine; length = length of mussel in mm; width = width of mussel in mm; died = 0 no 1 yes; treatment = t treatment c control; temp = cold 8 degrees, ambient 14.5 degree, warm 20 degrees; depth = control free, control in chamber, shallow 2cm, medium 5cm, deep 7cm; duration = in days post start; position = position in VORT, inside or outside; pre- post- burial = number of byssus plaques laid before or after sediment burial; petri = pertidish; pot = burial chamber; sed = sediment; CI-grav = gravitational condition index; CI-shell = shell condition index. ... |
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