• What Are Ecological Processes

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The use of organic aggregates as a food source by bay scallops, Argopecten irradians (Lamarck), was quantified and compared with the use of phytoplankton, a known good food. In two experiments, the first designed to characterize nitrogen incorporation and the second nitrogen release, 15 N was used to trace N into and out of scallops under defined, laboratory conditions. Scallops were fed experimental diets of labelled organic aggregates, produced from the dissolved material released by either a brown ( Fucus vesiculosis ) or red ( Gracilaria tikvahiae ) alga, or phytoplankton, Thalassiosira weissflogii (Grunow), for periods of 5–15 h in a flow-through system. More N was incorporated by scallops fed phytoplankton (523 μg · gDW −1 · h −1 ) than by those fed aggregates (70 μg · gDW −1 · h −1 for aggregates derived from F. vesiculosis and 306 μg · gDW −1 · h −1 for those derived from G. tikvahiae ). On both diets, fecal material and 15 N was released rapidly during the first 6 h of depuration. It was estimated that scallops incorporated aggregate N with an absorption efficiency of 77 to 79% as compared with an efficiency of 90% for phytoplankton N. Estimated assimilation efficiency ranged from 14 to 43% for scallops fed aggregates, and 75% for those fed phytoplankton. Despite these differences, aggregates represent a potentially important source of nutrition for suspension-feeding bivalves living in near-shore regions rich in natural seston.

Journal

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology – Elsevier

What Are Ecological Processes

Published: Jan 29, 1996

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