Water quality variation and clam growth: Is pH really a non-issue in estuaries?

By A. Ringwood, C. Keppler. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography

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Vulnerability of marine biodiversity to ocean acidification: A meta-analysis (2010, background): “Adult bivalves are able to successfully construct their valves in acid (pH 7) estuarine and river waters, even though growth is faster under more alkaline conditions (Ringwood and Keppler, 2002).”
Impacts of ocean acidification on marine shelled molluscs (2013, background): “Ringwood and Keppler (2002) showed that the growth rate of juvenile clams, M. merce-naria , is tightly linked to pH conditions, being signiﬁcantly reduced when pH levels fell below 7.5 (scale unknown) in comparison with higher pH conditions.”
Effects of climate change on South African estuaries and associated fish species (2013, background): “Acidification will also reduce the pH of the body fluids of aquatic animals (Fabry et al. 2008), which may influence a range of biophysical processes such as growth (Ringwood & Keppler 2002).”
Elevated level of carbon dioxide affects metabolism and shell formation in oysters Crassostrea virginica (2010, background): “In some of these estuaries, low pH values (7 to 7.5) can persist for several months from late spring until early autumn (Cochran & Burnett 1996, Ringwood & Keppler 2002; see also seawater pH data for estuaries in the southeastern USA at http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/).”
Effects of long-term moderate hypercapnia on acid-base balance and growth rate in marine mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) (2005, background): “Recent work has shown a close linkage between pH conditions in the field and clam growth rates (Ringwood & Keppler 2002).”
Size-dependent pH effect on calcification in post-larval hard clam Mercenaria spp. (2010, result): “However, our results corroborate previous findings that dissolution pressure may play a significant role in infaunal bivalve growth (Ringwood & Keppler 2002) and survival (Green et al. 2004a, 2009), and this effect is mitigated with size through the early post-larval stages.”