Towards the determination of Mytilus edulis food preferences using the dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory.

ABSTRACT: The blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, is a commercially important species, with production based on both fisheries and aquaculture. Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models have been extensively applied to study its energetics but such applications require a deep understanding of its nutrition, from filtration to assimilation. Being filter feeders, mussels show multiple responses to temporal fluctuations in their food and environment, raising questions that can be investigated by modeling. To provide a better insight into mussel-environment interactions, an experiment was conducted in one of the main French growing zones (Utah Beach, Normandy). Mussel growth was monitored monthly for 18 months, with a large number of environmental descriptors measured in parallel. Food proxies such as chlorophyll a,

SUBMITTER: Picoche C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4207687 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature