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A Long-Term Growth Record Derived from Arctica Islandica (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the Fladen Ground (Northern North Sea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. Witbaard ,
G.C.A. Duineveld  and
P.A.W.J. De Wilde
R. Witbaard
Affiliation:
NetherlandsInstitute for Sea Research (NIOZ), PO Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
G.C.A. Duineveld
Affiliation:
NetherlandsInstitute for Sea Research (NIOZ), PO Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
P.A.W.J. De Wilde
Affiliation:
NetherlandsInstitute for Sea Research (NIOZ), PO Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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Long-term variations in shell growth of the mollusc Arctica islandica (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the northern North Sea have been assessed retrospectively using the annually deposited internal growth lines. Relatively young specimens yielded a detailed year-to-year chronology while the growth record of specimens older than 30 y yielded a time series with a length exceeding 100 years. The long-term growth trends demonstrated a marked alternating sequence of periods in which growth was below and above expectation. A 33-y long cycle could be discerned. Since the 1960s the growth patterns in Arctica from two nearby locations were opposite, while they resembled each other in the period before 1960.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 801 - 816
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

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