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Growth and clearance rate of Corbicula fluminea in relation to fine sediment resuspension in eutrophic shallow lakes

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Eutrophic shallow lakes have a high content of organic matter in the sediment that may be frequently resuspended. Whilst it is generally accepted that inorganic suspended matter has a negative effect on filtering-feeding bivalves in streams, it is unclear whether resuspended sediment in lakes with a high organic content will inhibit or support bivalve growth, the latter reflecting that resuspended sediment can increase food availability for Asian clams directly but also through release of nutrients, promoting the growth of phytoplankton. We conducted two experiments assessing the impact of different concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS) on the growth and feeding behaviour of Asian clams. We found that the growth rates in the low, medium and high treatments increased 12%, 36% and 53% respectively, when compared with the control with no sediment added. The effect on clearance rates of Asian clams differed amongst suspended fractions, and the clams showed significant preference for diatoms over other algae at high TSS. We conclude that an increase in TSS stimulated rather than reduced the growth of Asian clams, suggesting that eutrophication in shallow lakes provides more favourable conditions for the population expansion of Asian clams, an invasive species in many water bodies outside Asia.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratefulness to Anne Mette Poulsen for linguistic assistance, and to Hu He for the help of analysis methods. We also thank the Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research for providing the experimental site for this study. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 32001156; 31770509; 32001154), Introducing Talent Starting Project of NIGLAS (NIGLAS2019QD02), the Belt and Road Special Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (2021491711) and the TÛBITAK BIDEB2232 program (Project 118C250).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, People’s Republic of China

    You Zhang, Yanqing Han & Kuanyi Li

  2. Lower Changjiang River Bureau of Hydrology and Water Resources Survey, Changjiang Water Resources Commission, 66 Dama Road, Nanjing, 210011, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Long Cheng

  3. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Water Environment Evolution and Pollution Control in Three Gorges Reservoir, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Chongqing, 404100, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Li

  4. Institute of Geography Science, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, 030619, People’s Republic of China

    Jiao Gu

  5. Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Kuanyi Li & Erik Jeppesen

  6. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark

    Erik Jeppesen

  7. Limnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Ecosystem Research and Implementation, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 06800, Turkey

    Erik Jeppesen

  8. Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Erdemli-Mersin, 33731, Turkey

    Erik Jeppesen

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Zhang, Y., Cheng, L., Li, W. et al. Growth and clearance rate of Corbicula fluminea in relation to fine sediment resuspension in eutrophic shallow lakes. Hydrobiologia 850, 1045–1058 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-05105-2

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