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Temperature effects on summer growth rates in the Antarctic scallop, Adamussium colbecki

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Annual growth rates of Antarctic marine organisms are low compared to their relatives from warmer waters. Previous studies hypothesise that high food availability during austral spring–summer may enable Antarctic invertebrates to attain comparatively high short-term growth rates despite the low temperature. Neither a temperature-growth experiment with juvenile Adamussium colbecki (Smith 1902) nor the comparison of A. colbecki summer growth rates with an empirical scallop specific growth-to-temperature relationship could confirm this hypothesis. Hence, summer growth rates of young, immature A. colbecki are strongly affected by temperature, i.e. no “uncoupling” from temperature.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the members of the Italian Antarctic Research station ‘Terra Nova Bay’, especially the ‘Malippo’-Crew and the divers for sampling of animals. Daniela Storch (AWI) helped during several aspects of the study. This research has been carried out—thanks to the support of the Italian National Program for Antarctic Research (PNRA) and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The manuscript benefited greatly from the comments of Andrew Clarke (British Antarctic Survey), Alex Sukhotin (White Sea Biological Station) and an anonymous reviewer.

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. Box 120161, 27515, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Olaf Heilmayer, Ute Jacob & Thomas Brey

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, SC 214, Boca Raton, Fl-33431, USA

    Olaf Heilmayer

  3. Gymnasium Wesermünde, Humboldtstrasse 12–14, 27580, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Cornelia Honnen

  4. DIP.TE.RIS Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse, Università di Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 5–16132, Genova, Italy

    Mariachiara Chiantore & Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti

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Table a Short-term growths rates in different scallops, which refer to juvenile, premature individuals and are measured during the main growth period of the species
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Heilmayer, O., Honnen, C., Jacob, U. et al. Temperature effects on summer growth rates in the Antarctic scallop, Adamussium colbecki. Polar Biol 28, 523–527 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0716-7

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