Isotope Sclerochronology and Season of Annual Growth Line Formation in Limpet Shells (Patella Vulgata) From Warm- And Cold-Temperate Zones in the Eastern North Atlantic

Surge, Donna; Wang, Ting; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Igor; Kelley, Patricia H.

doi:10.2110/palo.2012.p12-038r

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“…Information derived from this study was used for interpretation of oxygen isotope records from shells recovered in archaeological sites from the United Kingdom (Surge and Barrett, 2012;Wang et al, 2012). Later investigations by Surge et al (2013), including modern shells from northern Iberia, produced oxygen isotope records following the same seasonal variations as seawater temperatures, but this study was focused on growth patterns rather than on palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Therefore, despite the existence of previous isotopic studies in the region using modern specimens, a proper calibration of the 18 O shell as a palaeotemperature proxy has not yet been performed for this species in northern Iberia.…”

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“…This study includes a tighter control of variables than in previous research (Fenger et al, 2007;Surge et al, 2013) by including a more accurate seawater monitoring, different sampling approaches and a detailed sclerochronological analysis.…”

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“…Thus, modern limpet shells from different latitudes across the Eastern Atlantic Façade have been reported to show variable responses in terms of growth patterns (Surge et al, 2013).…”

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Shell oxygen isotope values and sclerochronology of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758 from northern Iberia: Implications for the reconstruction of past seawater temperatures

Gutiérrez-Zugasti

Suárez-Revilla

Clarke

et al. 2017

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Shell oxygen isotope values and sclerochronology of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758 from northern Iberia: Implications for the reconstruction of past seawater temperatures

Gutiérrez-Zugasti

Suárez-Revilla

Clarke

et al. 2017

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…However, there is some evidence that the seasonal timing of growth band formation may also switch across the latitudinal range of a species. Pleistocene and modern oysters experience warm-season (summer) cessations in shell extension at the equatorial end of their range and cold-season (winter) cessations at the polar end (Kirby et al 1998), as do quahogs (Ansell 1968;Surge and Walker 2006) and other mollusks such as limpets (Surge et al 2013), but it is not clear whether these patterns can be generalized across bivalves.…”

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Identifying the Ticks of Bivalve Shell Clocks: Seasonal Growth in Relation to Temperature and Food Supply

Killam

Clapham

2018

Palaios

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Sclerochronology uses shell growth lines or bands for the construction of environmental time-series and the measurement of organism growth, but more study is needed to constrain the triggers of the dark cessation bands observed in many bivalve groups. We constructed a database of direct observations of modern growth seasonality across the class Bivalvia and compared the occurrence of seasonal growth bands to environmental data including latitude, temperature, and chlorophyll-a concentration. Bivalves with cold-season (winter) cessations are more common towards the poles, with logistic regression showing that temperature, followed by latitude of occurrence, displays the strongest relationship with occurrence of winter cessation. Remotely sensed and directly measured chlorophyll-a concentration show no significant relationship. Summer cessations are sparse and only weakly associated with environmental controls but are concentrated at the subtropical latitudes among temperate bivalves at their equatorial extremes. The rarity of summer cessations can be explained by the limited annual ranges of temperature in the tropics, combined with the exponential relationship of metabolic rate to temperature leading to a narrow window between normal functioning and mortality at high temperatures. This data suggests that, unless annual temperatures have low variability like in equatorial or polar regions, the season of growth cessation across bivalves is primarily a function of temperature tolerance through restriction of scope for growth. At most latitudes, growth bands can be interpreted as being primarily triggered by temperature stress, rather than seasonal starvation.

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“…Tidal periodicity has been described in different limpet species including Patella vulgata (Ekaratne & Crisp, 1982), Fissurella crassa (Bretos, 1978), Cellana toreuma (Richardson & Liu, 1994), Scutellastra granularis (Vat, 2000) and Helcion pectunculus (Gray & Hodgson, 2003), and also in the pulmonate limpet Siphonaria gigas (Crisp et al, 1990). Recent studies used a combination of shell growth patterns and stable isotope ratios of oxygen and carbon to understand the seasonal periodicity of shell growth in the European limpet P. vulgata from the eastern North Atlantic (Fenger et al, 2007;Surge et al, 2013).…”

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Life-history trait of the Mediterranean keystone species Patella rustica: growth and microbial bioerosion

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The age and shell growth patterns in populations of Patella rustica in the Adriatic Sea were determined by analyzing the inner growth lines visible in shell sections. Marginal increment analysis showed annual periodicity with the annual growth line being deposited in May. The growth analysis of 120 individual shells showed that 90.8 % of collected shells were less than 4 years of age and only two shells (1.6 %) were older than 6 years. Population structure was described and generalized von Bertalanffy growth parameters were calculated: asymptotic length (L ∞ ) was 38.22 mm and the growth constant (K) was 0.30 year -1 . Growth performance index value of P. rustica (Ø') was 2.64, among the lowest ranges reported for limpet species. Patella rustica shells were degraded to different degrees by microbial bioerosion. The damage was most often restricted to the oldest parts of the shell, i.e. apex of the shell, posing difficulties in determining the exact position of the first growth line. The microboring organisms identified were pseudofilamentous and filamentous cyanobacteria Hormathonema (Solentia) paulocellulare, Hyella caespitosa, Mastigocoleus testarum and Leptolyngbya sp. The overall intensity of infestation was relatively low, but increased in severity with shell age and length. The present study is first to introduce the use of inner growth lines in Patella rustica shell sections as a reliable method for age determination. It provides the first insight into the growth patterns of this keystone species, while taking the interference by microbial shell bioerosion in consideration.

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Isotope Sclerochronology and Season of Annual Growth Line Formation in Limpet Shells (Patella Vulgata) From Warm- And Cold-Temperate Zones in the Eastern North Atlantic

Cited by 35 publications

References 55 publications

Shell oxygen isotope values and sclerochronology of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758 from northern Iberia: Implications for the reconstruction of past seawater temperatures

Shell oxygen isotope values and sclerochronology of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758 from northern Iberia: Implications for the reconstruction of past seawater temperatures

Identifying the Ticks of Bivalve Shell Clocks: Seasonal Growth in Relation to Temperature and Food Supply

Life-history trait of the Mediterranean keystone species Patella rustica: growth and microbial bioerosion

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