Oxygen Isotope Composition of Bivalve Seasonal Growth Increments and Ambient Water in the Rivers Rhine and Meuse

Versteegh, Emma; Troelstra, S.R.; Vonhof, Hubert; Kroon, Dick

doi:10.2110/palo.2008.p08-071r

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“…This dataset was obtained from the Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen (Fig. 3) (Versteegh 2009). …”

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“…This relationship is particularly interesting for the summer time interval, since the mussels studied precipitate their shells only during summer (April-October;Negus 1966;Versteegh 2009). For the summer data, this relationship has the following equation: The logarithmic regressions approximate the data points well using the full dataset or only the summer data (for Verdegaal et al (2005) statistics of linear and quadratic regressions see Table 2).…”

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“…Analysing growth increments at high-spatial resolution can thus reveal seasonal patterns in d 18 O ar . Unionids cease growing below a certain temperature threshold (Dettman et al 1999;Dunca and Mutvei 2001;Goewert et al 2007), which is *12-13°C for the species used here (Negus 1966;Versteegh 2009). Therefore, only summer conditions can be recorded in the shell, and winters are represented by hiatuses.…”

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“…O ar values precipitated during slow growth just prior to and shortly after the winter growth cessation (Dettman et al 1999;Goodwin et al 2003;Versteegh et al 2009). In these shells, d…”

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“…O ar values vary between -4.7 and -7.5 % (VPDB), which is representative for the river Meuse (Verdegaal et al 2005;Versteegh et al 2009). The total number of growing seasons recorded in the shells varies between two in Waalwijk 1977 (Fig.…”

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“…This dataset was obtained from the Centre for Isotope Research, University of Groningen (Fig. 3) (Versteegh 2009). …”

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Exploring the Mineral Composition, Structure, and Function of a Freshwater Bivalve Adhesive

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Etheria elliptica is a freshwater oyster that produces an adhesive that hardens underwater, allowing them to attach to other oysters, rocks, wood, and other natural substrates, producing complex oyster bed communities. Despite the importance of the adhesive in oyster bed formation, little is known about its chemical composition, structure, or mechanical properties. Through a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x‐ray photoemission electron microscopy (X‐PEEM), infrared (IR) spectroscopy, microhardness testing, and nanoindentation, it is found that the oyster adhesive consists entirely of aragonite nanoparticles that clump together into crystallites of varied shape, size, and orientation. The crystallite clumping density varies from the exterior of the adhesive to the interior, with the adhesive closest to the prismatic layer generally being denser. With this variation in density comes a variation in material properties with the exterior adhesive layer being softer and more flexible and the interior adhesive layer being harder and less elastic, or more similar to the prismatic and nacre shell structures produced by the E. elliptica. The resultant material exhibits varied materials properties, despite similar mineral composition.

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Freshwater pearl mussels as a stream water stable isotope recorder

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For several decades, stable isotopes have been a commonly used and effective tool for flow path analysis, stream water source apportionment, and transit time analysis. The Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation repository now has monthly precipitation isotope time series extending over several years and even decades in some settings. However, stream water isotope composition time series remain rather short with only very few data sets spanning over more than a few years. A critical challenge in this respect is the collection of stream water isotope data sets across a wide variety of headwater streams and for long durations. We rely on a new approach for stream signal reconstruction based on freshwater mussels, specifically the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera. We use secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to quantify oxygen isotope ratios in pearl mussel shell growth bands. In our study area, the observed seasonal variability in precipitation δ18O values ranges between −15‰ and −3‰. This input signal is strongly damped in stream water, where observed values of δ18O range between −10‰ and −6.5‰. These values are consistent with our measured average shell‐derived stream water δ18O of −7.19‰. Along successive growth bands, SIMS‐based stream water δ18Ow values varied within a seasonal range of −9‰ to −5‰. The proposed SIMS‐based shell analysis technique is obviously well suited for analysing isotopic signatures of O in shell material—especially from the perspective of reconstructing historical series of in‐stream isotope signatures.

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Oxygen Isotope Composition of Bivalve Seasonal Growth Increments and Ambient Water in the Rivers Rhine and Meuse

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Can shells of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) be used to estimate low summer discharge of rivers and associated droughts?

Can shells of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) be used to estimate low summer discharge of rivers and associated droughts?

Exploring the Mineral Composition, Structure, and Function of a Freshwater Bivalve Adhesive

Freshwater pearl mussels as a stream water stable isotope recorder

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