Growth and population structure in the infaunal bivalve Yoldia eightsi in relation to iceberg activity at Signy Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Peck, Lloyd S., Bullough, L.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1993
• Subjects: Signy Island; The ''Y''; Factory Cove; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518014/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00345668

Growth rates in the infaunal nuculanid bivalve mollusc Yoldia eightsi (Couthouy) were assessed for field populations in Factory Cove, Signy Island, Antarctica, between. February and April 1992. Daily increments in length (maximum shell dimension) ranged from 2.3 μm d-1 for a 30 mm individual to 5.1...