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Bayne, BL, Salkeld, PN and Worrall, CM 1983 Reproductive Effort And Value In Different Populations Of The Marine Mussel Mytilus-Edulis-L. Oecologia, 59 (1). 18 - 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00388067
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Fecundity, reproductive effort (estimated both from production measurements and from physiological data), the energetic costs of reproduction and the reproductive value of different size classes were measured for mussels at different sites and related to age and to tissue weight. Variability between sites was considerable and differences as great as 10 x were recorded between minimum and maximum values for egg production, reproductive effort and reproductive value. However, similarities between mussels from different sites were also apparent, as regards egg size, the estimated metabolic costs of egg production (based on measurements of oxygen consumption), the relationship (isometric) between egg production and body size, the fact of an increase in reproductive effort with increase in size, and the age at which maximum residual reproductive values was expressed. These relationships are discussed in terms of the fundamental reproductive strategy of the species and the degree of environmental stress imposed on the mussels at the different sites.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Subjects: | Ecology and Environment Marine Sciences |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Other (PML) |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date made live: | 11 Feb 2014 15:54 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2017 16:03 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/2687 |
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