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The Influence of Current Speed, Body Size and Water Temperature On the Filtration Rate of Five Species of Bivalves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. R. Walne
P. R. Walne
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Experiment Station, Conway
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The rate of water filtration by bivalves has long excited interest, but it has in practice proved difficult to measure in conditions where the animal is relatively free from constraint. Its estimation is important from a number of aspects: feeding studies; as an indicator of the animal's reaction to its environment; and for predicting the flow of water required for the culture of economically important species. The work reported in this paper started as part of the general programme on shellfish culture in progress at this laboratory. During the development of a suitable method for studying the water requirements it became clear that one factor, water current, had a more important influence than has been generally recognized.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 1972 , pp. 345 - 374
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1972

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