The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory
In highly seasonal intertidal habitats, changes in temperature through the year may drive substantial shifts in feeding and growth rates of organisms. For the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus, attacking and consuming Mytilus edulis mussels can take hours or days, depending on temperature. Handling time of...
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ftsanjosestate:oai:scholarworks.sjsu.edu:biol_pub-1069 2023-07-30T04:07:31+02:00 The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory Miller, Luke P. 2013-06-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/biol_pub/69 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2202-z unknown SJSU ScholarWorks https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/biol_pub/69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2202-z Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences Biology text 2013 ftsanjosestate https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2202-z 2023-07-17T18:58:11Z In highly seasonal intertidal habitats, changes in temperature through the year may drive substantial shifts in feeding and growth rates of organisms. For the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus, attacking and consuming Mytilus edulis mussels can take hours or days, depending on temperature. Handling time of dogwhelks feeding on mussels is therefore greatly affected by ocean temperature. I recorded attack time in the laboratory, partitioned into drilling and consumption time, for juvenile dogwhelks across a range of seawater temperatures representative of field seawater temperatures during the main growing seasons of summer and autumn. The combined length of a drilling attack and subsequent ingestion time tripled across the 10 °C decline in water temperatures from July through November, driven primarily by an increase in ingestion time. The observed reduction in handling time, coupled with projected sea surface warming in New England by the end of the twenty-first century, could extend the length of the growing season for Nucella and subsequently have cascading effects on the prey community. Text Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus San José State University: SJSU ScholarWorks Marine Biology 160 6 1489 1496 |
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In highly seasonal intertidal habitats, changes in temperature through the year may drive substantial shifts in feeding and growth rates of organisms. For the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus, attacking and consuming Mytilus edulis mussels can take hours or days, depending on temperature. Handling time of dogwhelks feeding on mussels is therefore greatly affected by ocean temperature. I recorded attack time in the laboratory, partitioned into drilling and consumption time, for juvenile dogwhelks across a range of seawater temperatures representative of field seawater temperatures during the main growing seasons of summer and autumn. The combined length of a drilling attack and subsequent ingestion time tripled across the 10 °C decline in water temperatures from July through November, driven primarily by an increase in ingestion time. The observed reduction in handling time, coupled with projected sea surface warming in New England by the end of the twenty-first century, could extend the length of the growing season for Nucella and subsequently have cascading effects on the prey community. |
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The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory |
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The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory |
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The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory |
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The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory |
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The Effect of Water Temperature on Drilling and Ingestion Rates of the Dogwhelk Nucella lapillus Feeding on Mytilus edulis Mussels in the Laboratory |
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effect of water temperature on drilling and ingestion rates of the dogwhelk nucella lapillus feeding on mytilus edulis mussels in the laboratory |
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