Feet, heat and scallops: what is the cost of anthropogenic disturbance in bivalve aquaculture?

ABSTRACT: The effects of unnatural disturbances on the behaviour and energetics of animals are an important issue for conservation and commercial animal production. Biologging enables estimation of the energy costs of these disturbances, but not specifically the effect these costs have on growth; a key outcome measure for animal farming enterprises. We looked at how natural and anthropogenically induced activity and energy expenditure of king scallops Pecten maximus varies with temperature. These data were then used to model growth time of king scallops reared in an aquaculture facility under different temperatures and anthropogenic disturbance levels. The scallops exhibited a typical total metabolic rate (MR)-temperature curve, with a peak reached at a middling temperature. The percentage of their

SUBMITTER: Robson AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4821270 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature