Comment on “Stable carbon isotopes in freshwater mussel shells: Environmental record or marker for metabolic activity?” by J. Geist et al. (2005)

Schöne, Bernd R.; Rodland, David L.; Surge, Donna; Fiebig, Jens; Gillikin, David P.; Baier, Sven; Goewert, Ann E.

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.12.028

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“…The lithology in these watersheds is predominantly limestone. However, more carbonate rocks are replaced by sandstones in the Hongshui River valley through Nanning City to Hengxian City (points [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. The transect extended further east from Hengxian City to Zhaoqing City (points 36-57), crossing the southern tributaries of the Xijiang River, namely the Beiliu, Luoding and Xinxing rivers.…”

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“…If the carbon isotopic composition of the shell (δ 13 C shell ) is linked to δ 13 C DIC of the aquatic environments, then the δ 13 C shell of the fossils may lead to understanding of the past environmental changes in drainage basins. However, few efforts have been made to examine this connection [21,22], probably because of concern about metabolic effects on the δ 13 C shell [23,24], which are common in other mollusks [25]. In this study, we measured the isotopic composition of shells of C. fluminea and ambient waters in the Xijiang River watershed, the largest drainage basin in southern and western China, and examined δ 13 C shell as a proxy for δ 13 C DIC .…”

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“…The thick blue lines are the smoothed results of the data. The vertical gray band indicates the region between Zhaixu Town and Yulin City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.the Hongshui River valley (points[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] between Wuyu Town and Nanning City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as well as in the Beiliu River and Luoding River watersheds between Xingyie City and Zhen'an City (points 41-54). δ 13 C DIC in the Hongshui River valley averaged as low as -9‰ despite the fact that the main channel and its upstream tributaries drain a large area of carbonate rocks.…”

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Stable carbon isotopes in the shell of Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774): Implications for understanding environmental changes in drainage basins

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Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) is a primary constituent of the aquatic geochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems. Changes in DIC concentration and its isotopic composition are closely associated with environmental changes in the drainage basin. Thus, a better understanding of DIC may lead to improved characterization of environmental changes. Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774), a bivalve native to southeast Asia and a dominant invasive species in many aquatic environments around the world, has the potential to record DIC information, particularly because of its sequential skeletal deposition. Analysis of the stable carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C) of the shell and the aquatic DIC in the Xijiang River drainage basins in southern and western China allowed us to determine that changes in δ 13 C in the skeleton significantly correlated with those of DIC (P < 0.01, r = 0.63). These results indicate that the isotopic signature of the shell reflects that δ 13 C of the DIC in ambient water. The temporal resolution was at the seasonal scale. Metabolic effect does not change the co-variation, even though it makes the shell δ 13 C 1.4‰ lower statistically than that of DIC. δ 13 C of DIC in creeks of some watershed areas may experience large temporal changes characterization of these changes requires high sampling resolution of the shell. This problem makes the clams in these areas less preferable for reconstruction of environmental changes. The present findings provide the basis for recovering paleoenvironmental changes and carbon cycles in a watershed through analysis of fossil shells of C. fluminea, which are common in some lacustrine and/or riverine sediment sequences. dissolved inorganic carbon, carbon isotope, carbon cycle, terrestrial ecosystem, environment change, Asian clam, aquatic environment, biogenic carbonate, Xijiang River watershed Citation: Zhou H, Liu C Q, Jiang Q, et al. Stable carbon isotopes in the shell of Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774): Implications for understanding environmental changes in drainage basins.

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“…The dif fi cul ties in in ter pre ta tion are linked to many quan ti ta tively vari able fluxes, such as de com posed organic mat ter from land, changes in me tab o lism, and qual i ta tive dif fer en ti a tion in nu tri ent sup ply. The is sue of in flu ence d 13 C signa tures by in di vid ual met a bolic sig nals in fresh wa ter bi valves had been dis cussed (Geist et al, 2005, see also Schöne et al, 2005). The vi tal ef fect off set is not con stant and de pends on many fac tors, in clud ing food source and nu tri tion abun dance, but it is also chang ing with age of in di vid ual, and it is un clear whether this change is caused di rectly by phys i ol ogy or be hav ioural issues (place of res i dence).…”

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Comparative oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Miocene and recent lacustrine unionid bivalves from Poland

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3 As so ci a tion of Pol ish Cli ma tol o gists, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Po land 4 PHACOPS As so ci a tion of Friends of Geosciences, Łódź, Po land Błażejowski B., Racki G., Gieszcz P., Małkowski K., Kin A. and Krzywiecka K. (2013) Com par a tive ox y gen and car bon iso topic re cords of Mio cene and re cent lac us trine unionid bi valves from Po land. Geo log i cal Quar terly, 57 (1): 113-122, doi: 10.7306/gq.1072The d 13 C and d 18 O iso tope data from both fos sil (Mio cene) and mod ern fresh wa ter bi valve shells of fam ily Unionidae from Poland (spe cies Margaritifera flabellatiformis and Unio tumidus, re spec tively) show a sim i lar, trun cated si nu soi dal pat tern. The iso to pic pro files of the shells are vis i bly marked by three growth stages, linked with a pro gres sive loss of en vi ron men tal record be cause of de clin ing intra-an nual biocarbonate ac cre tion rate. The ju ve nile and gerontic phases ex hibit gen er ally more pos i tive and sta ble (pla teau) iso to pic pat tern than the mid-age stage. An in creas ing d 13 C trend is typ i cal for the fi nal life stage, likely in flu enced by nu tri ent over load ing, re vers ing the ten dency to wards 13 C de ple tion through out the in di vid ual's life induced by met a bolic pro cesses. Due to the pro gres sive loss of en vi ron men tal sig nals through on tog eny, these ini tial and fi nal iso to pic pro file seg ments prob a bly cor re spond to, re spec tively, an in stant sig na ture of the first sea son growth, and a multiyear value set of sum mer max ima dur ing ge ri at ric stage. Vague sea sonal cy clic re cord is the strik ing fea ture of the mid-age d18 O and d 13 C pro file slices. In case of low-am pli tude d 18 O curve, this is prob a bly pro moted by a sen si tiv ity of the lake eco sys tem to many dy namic intra-an nual fac tors af fect ing wa ter bud get bal ance. This con sis tent sig na ture mode seems to be typ i cal for lake-dwell ing unionid shells at least since Mio cene from dif fer ent cli ma tic zones, as con firmed by coeval lac us trine low-lat i tude mus sels from Amazonia. Thus, this iso tope re cord is rel e vant to ob tain in for ma tion on the hab i tat and life cy cle of the fos sil fresh wa ter bi valves, as well as could help to un der stand mod ern en vi ron men tal change.

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“…The main point made by Schö ne et al (2006) is that they argue against methods of sampling annual growth increments of shell layers and are in doubt about the assignment of annual layers to individual years. However, an annual assignment is not required for most analyses in the context of our argumentation chain.…”

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Comment on “Stable carbon isotopes in freshwater mussel shells: Environmental record or marker for metabolic activity?” by J. Geist et al. (2005)

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Stable carbon isotopes in the shell of Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774): Implications for understanding environmental changes in drainage basins

Stable carbon isotopes in the shell of Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774): Implications for understanding environmental changes in drainage basins

Comparative oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Miocene and recent lacustrine unionid bivalves from Poland

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