A late Holocene paleo-productivity record in the western Gulf of Maine, USA, inferred from growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)

Wanamaker, Alan D.; Kreutz, K. J.; Schöne, Bernd R.; Maasch, Kirk A.; Pershing, Andrew J.; Borns, Harold W.; Introne, D.; Feindel, Scott

doi:10.1007/s00531-008-0318-z

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“…However, the relative importance of the main factors, temperature and food supply/quality driving shell formation are still not well understood. Positive correlations between shell growth and water temperature have been identified (i.e., Schöne et al, 2005;Wanamaker et al, 2009;Marali et al, 2015), but the relationship between shell growth and environment is more complex (Marchitto et al, 2010;Stott et al, 2010; and likely dependent on the synergic effect of food availability and water temperature (Butler et al, 2013;Lohmann and Schöne, 2013;Mette et al, 2016). Tank experiments were run in order to precisely identify the role of these two parameters on the shell growth of A. islandica (Witbaard et al, 1997;Hiebenthal et al, 2012).…”

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The effects of environment on <i>Arctica islandica</i> shell formation and architecture

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Abstract. Mollusks record valuable information in their hard parts that reflect ambient environmental conditions. For this reason, shells can serve as excellent archives to reconstruct past climate and environmental variability. However, animal physiology and biomineralization, which are often poorly understood, can make the decoding of environmental signals a challenging task. Many of the routinely used shell-based proxies are sensitive to multiple different environmental and physiological variables. Therefore, the identification and interpretation of individual environmental signals (e.g., water temperature) often is particularly difficult. Additional proxies not influenced by multiple environmental variables or animal physiology would be a great asset in the field of paleoclimatology. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential use of structural properties of Arctica islandica shells as an environmental proxy. A total of 11 specimens were analyzed to study if changes of the microstructural organization of this marine bivalve are related to environmental conditions. In order to limit the interference of multiple parameters, the samples were cultured under controlled conditions. Three specimens presented here were grown at two different water temperatures (10 and 15 • C) for multiple weeks and exposed only to ambient food conditions. An additional eight specimens were reared under three different dietary regimes. Shell material was analyzed with two techniques; (1) confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) was used to quantify changes of the orientation of microstructural units and pigment distribution, and (2) scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to detect changes in microstructural organization. Our results indicate that A. islandica microstructure is not sensitive to changes in the food source and, likely, shell pigment are not altered by diet. However, seawater temperature had a statistically significant effect on the orientation of the biomineral. Although additional work is required, the results presented here suggest that the crystallographic orientation of biomineral units of A. islandica may serve as an alternative and independent proxy for seawater temperature.

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The effects of environment on <i>Arctica islandica</i> shell formation and architecture

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“…First, we applied the Morlet wavelets (Morlet 1983; Torrence and Compo 1998), a continuous wavelet transform, proven and tested in climate time series analysis (Lau and Weng 1995;Dunca et al 2009;Schöne and Fiebig 2009;Wanamaker et al 2009). The transform was based on the method described in Torrence and Compo (1998) by means of Wavelet software provided by these authors.…”

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Short-term fluctuations in vegetation and phytoplankton during the Middle Eocene greenhouse climate: a 640-kyr record from the Messel oil shale (Germany)

Lenz

Wilde

Riegel

2010

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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The Palaeogene was the most recent greenhouse period on Earth. Especially for the Late Palaeocene and Early Eocene, several superimposed short-term hyperthermal events have been described, including extremes such as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Major faunal and floral turnovers in the marine and terrestrial realms were recorded in association with these events. High-resolution palynological analysis of the early Middle Eocene maar lake sediments at Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany, provides an insight into the dynamics of a climax vegetation during the Middle Eocene greenhouse climate in a time span without significant climatic excursions. Numerical techniques like detrended correspondence analysis and wavelet analysis have been applied to recognize cyclic fluctuations and long-term trends in the vegetation through a time interval of approximately 640 kyr. Based on the numerical zoning of the pollen diagram, three phases in the development of the vegetation may be distinguished. Throughout these phases, the climax vegetation did not change substantially in qualitative composition, but a trend towards noticeably less humid conditions probably in combination with a drop of the water level in the lake may be recognized. A shift in algal population from the freshwater dinoflagellate cyst Messelodinium thielepfeifferae to a dominance of Botryococcus in the uppermost part of the core is interpreted as a response to changes in acidity and nutrient availability within the lake. Time series analyses of pollen assemblages show that variations in the Milankovitch range of eccentricity, obliquity and precession can be distinguished. In addition, fluctuations in the sub-Milankovitch range are indicated. This demonstrates that floral changes during steady depositional conditions in the Middle Eocene of Messel were controlled by orbital forcing.

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“…This would, however, be an essential step to unambiguously link our 5-year signal to the NAO (cf., Wunsch 1999). A number of studies have shown indeed A. islandica shell growth patterns to correlate with known ocean-atmosphere oscillations such as NAO (Schöne et al 2003a;Wanamaker et al 2009). Nevertheless, further investigations of additional shell material as well as of local forcing mechanisms are required.…”

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Bivalve Shells—Unique High-Resolution Archives of the Environmental Past

Beierlein

Nehrke

Trofimova

et al. 2015

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science

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Understanding the climate of the past is essential for anticipating future climate change. Palaeoclimatic archives are the key to the past, but few marine archives (including tropical corals) combine long recording times (decades to centuries) with high temporal resolution (decadal to intra-annual). In temperate and polar regions carbonate shells can perform the equivalent function as a proxy archive as corals do in the tropics. The bivalve Arctica islandica is a particularly unique bio-archive owing to its wide distribution throughout the North Atlantic and its extreme longevity (up to 500 years). This paper exemplifies how information at intra-annual and decadal scales is derived from A. islandica shells and combined into a detailed picture of past conditions. Oxygen isotope analysis (δ 18 O) provides information on the intra-annual temperature cycle while frequency analysis of shell growth records identifies decadal variability such as a distinct 5-year signal, which might be linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation.

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A late Holocene paleo-productivity record in the western Gulf of Maine, USA, inferred from growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)

Cited by 57 publications

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The effects of environment on <i>Arctica islandica</i> shell formation and architecture

The effects of environment on <i>Arctica islandica</i> shell formation and architecture

Short-term fluctuations in vegetation and phytoplankton during the Middle Eocene greenhouse climate: a 640-kyr record from the Messel oil shale (Germany)

Bivalve Shells—Unique High-Resolution Archives of the Environmental Past

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A late Holocene paleo-productivity record in the western Gulf of Maine, USA, inferred from growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)

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The effects of environment on &lt;i&gt;Arctica islandica&lt;/i&gt; shell formation and architecture

The effects of environment on &lt;i&gt;Arctica islandica&lt;/i&gt; shell formation and architecture

Short-term fluctuations in vegetation and phytoplankton during the Middle Eocene greenhouse climate: a 640-kyr record from the Messel oil shale (Germany)

Bivalve Shells—Unique High-Resolution Archives of the Environmental Past

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