Geographical variation in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis

van der Schatte Olivier, Andrew; Le Vay, Lewis; Malham, Shelagh K.; Christie, Michael; Wilson, James; Allender, Susan; Schmidlin, Sarah; Brewin, Jordan M.; Jones, Laurence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-9006. 2021 Geographical variation in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 167, 112291. 11, pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291

Abstract/Summary

Shellfish farming contributes to nutrient removal in coastal and estuarine systems, as bivalves incorporate nutrients into their tissues and shells, which is removed from the marine system on harvest. Fourteen locations around the UK were surveyed to explore geographic variation in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of tissue and shell in blue mussels. Phosphorus in tissue had a significant negative relationship with mean annual seawater temperature for both rope and bottom cultured sites. Per tonne of live mussel, rope culture removed significantly more nitrogen (8.50 ± 0.59 kg) and phosphorus (0.95 ± 0.07 kg) than bottom cultured (5.00 ± 0.013 kg nitrogen and 0.43 ± 0.01 kg phosphorus). Bottom culture, however, provides significantly more C removal in shell (60.15 ± 0.77 kg) than in rope cultured (46.12 ± 1.69 kg). Further studies are required to examine the effect of growth rate, on the nitrogen and phosphorus remediation, and carbon stored in shell, of rope culture and bottom cultured mussel aquaculture.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	0025-326X
Additional Keywords:	nutrient remediation, ecosystem services, regulating services, shellfish, bivalves, bivalve aquaculture
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	02 Jun 2021 10:56 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530450

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112291

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

0025-326X

Additional Keywords:

nutrient remediation, ecosystem services, regulating services, shellfish, bivalves, bivalve aquaculture

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment