[Retrospective analysis of influence of environmental conditions on growth parameters of White Sea edible mussels Mytilus edulis]

Izv Akad Nauk Ser Biol. 2006 Nov-Dec:(6):762-6.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Retrospective analysis of influence of environmental conditions on growth parameters of White Sea edible mussels Mytilus edulis has been done by measurements of successive annual rings on shell surface. Analysis by non-linear criterion and Bertalanffy's growth equation allows to deduce that the best environmental condition for edible mussels growth was in 1999 (population from Kastyan island region) and in 2001 (population of Malaya Pir-guba region). The worst one was in 1998 for both populations.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Ecosystem*
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Mytilus edulis / growth & development*
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Russia