Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9448748 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 2005 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Food quality was lower in the bottom waters due to significantly higher particulate inorganic matter (PIM, >2 mg lâ1) when compared with the surface waters. PIM accounted for 95% of the total settled mass flux of 3.4 g mâ2 dayâ1 measured in sediment traps deployed 1 m off the bottom, with organic carbon representing only 2.5% of the mass flux during the mid-summer conditions. At low-current sites such as Shorey Cove, Roque Island, Maine, the settling of marine snow provides an important additional source of food, albeit of low quality, to benthic populations of blue mussels.
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Authors
Carter R. Newell, C.H. Pilskaln, S.M. Robinson, B.A. MacDonald,