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28 Jul 2023
Research article |
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Ultradian rhythms in shell composition of photosymbiotic and non-photosymbiotic mollusks
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry group (AMGC), Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel Killam
Clean Water Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA, USA
Lukas Fröhlich
Institute of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Lennart de Nooijer
Dept. of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands
Wim Boer
Dept. of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands
Bernd R. Schöne
Institute of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Julien Thébault
Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France
Gert-Jan Reichart
Dept. of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Short summary
Mollusk shells are valuable recorders of climate and environmental changes of the past down to a daily resolution. To explore this potential, we measured changes in the composition of shells of two types of bivalves recorded at the hourly scale: the king scallop Pecten maximus and giant clams (Tridacna) that engaged in photosymbiosis. We find that photosymbiosis produces more day–night fluctuation in shell chemistry but that most of the variation is not periodic, perhaps recording weather.
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