ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION AND THE MORTALITY OF MUSSELS MYTILUS EDULIS IN THE LITTORAL OF THE WHITE SEA

On the basis of a comparison of size frequency distribution of shells of dead and living mussels collected in the littoral of the White Sea, the character and causes of mortality are revealed. The author shows that most of the small mussels die by being consumed by birds or fishes; larger molluscs a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikolskii,G. B.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1968
Subjects:
Biological Oceanography
*PELECYPODA
WHITE SEA
MORTALITY RATE
DISTRIBUTION
MARINE BIOLOGY
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
White Sea
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0667613
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Summary:On the basis of a comparison of size frequency distribution of shells of dead and living mussels collected in the littoral of the White Sea, the character and causes of mortality are revealed. The author shows that most of the small mussels die by being consumed by birds or fishes; larger molluscs are mainly sucked out by starfishes, while only about 3 per cent of mussels are destroyed by the molluscs Natica that drill the former. (Author) Trans. of Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (USSR) v45 n12 p1878-80 1966, tr. by M. Slessers.

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