Experimentally determined Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in juvenile bivalve calcite for Mytilus edulis: implications for paleotemperature reconstructions

Use of Stable Isotopes to Understand Food Webs and Ecosystem Functioning in Estuaries

“…Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca seem to have strong biological or kinetic effects associated with them (e.g., Purton et al, 1999;Vander Putten et al, 2000;Gillikin et al, 2005c;Lorrain et al, 2005;Surge and Lohmann, 2008;Wanamaker et al, 2008). However, many studies have shown this not to be true for most elements.…”

Rare earth elements in the aragonitic shell of freshwater mussel Corbicula fluminea and the bioavailability of anthropogenic lanthanum, samarium and gadolinium in river water

“…So far, research has focused on trace metal concentrations in the tissue of this bivalve to be used in biomonitoring, although concentrations in their shells have also been employed as a useful tool in biomonitoring (Bau et al, 2010;Bourgoin, 1990;Brown et al, 2005;Markich et al, 2002;Pearce and Mann, 2006;Weltje et al, 2002). However, vital effects may affect the specific incorporation of some elements into the shells relative to their concentration in ambient water (e.g., Takesue et al, 2008;Wanamaker et al, 2008) and may thus limit the applicability of certain proxies. Nevertheless, Corbicula shells appear to be a valuable bioarchive of physico-chemical conditions in freshwater environments (Bellotto and Miekeley, 2007;Bourgoin, 1990).…”

Disentangling the biological and environmental control of M. edulis shell chemistry

“…Mussels have the potential to provide high resolution records of a large variety of environmental regimes due to their high growth rate, global distribution [ Gosling , 1992] and tolerance to a broad range of environmental conditions [ Seed and Suchanek , 1992] and some bivalves are extremely long‐lived [e.g., Schöne et al , 2005]. Trace metal distributions (e.g., Mg and Sr) in bivalve shells are a field of current interest because as a proxy archive [e.g., Klein et al , 1996a, 1996b; Lazareth et al , 2003; Immenhauser et al , 2005; Freitas et al , 2008; Wanamaker et al 2008], they may help reconstructing (paleo)environmental conditions and thus deliver the data necessary to construct and improve models of past climate.…”