Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis

Kaandorp, R.J.G.; Vonhof, Hubert; Busto, Cahuide Del; Wesselingh, Frank P.; Ganssen, G.M.; Mármol, Andrés; Pittman, Lidia Romero; Hinte, J.E. van

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“…corals (Swart, 1983;Watanabe et al, 2011), coralline algae (Halfar et al, 2008;Williams et al, 2011), land snails (Goodfriend and Ellis, 2002;Yanes et al, 2011), freshwater snails (Abell and Hoelzmann, 2000;Stevens et al, 2012), freshwater bivalves (Kaandorp et al, 2003;Versteegh et al, 2010bVersteegh et al, , 2011 and marine bivalves (Jones and Quitmyer, 1996;Santos et al, 2012;Schöne et al, 2005). The oxygen isotope composition (δ 18 O values) of marine bivalves is often used as a proxy for temperature (Carré et al, 2005;Wanamaker et al, 2011).…”

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Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

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Abstract. Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is accelerating and will contribute significantly to global sea level rise during the 21st century. Instrumental data on GrIS melting only cover the last few decades, and proxy data extending our knowledge into the past are vital for validating models predicting the influence of ongoing climate change. We investigated a potential meltwater proxy in Godthåbsfjord (West Greenland), where glacier meltwater causes seasonal excursions with lower oxygen isotope water (δ 18 O w ) values and salinity. The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) potentially records these variations, because it precipitates its shell calcite in oxygen isotopic equilibrium with ambient seawater. As M. edulis shells are known to occur in raised shorelines and archaeological shell middens from previous Holocene warm periods, this species may be ideal in reconstructing past meltwater dynamics. We investigate its potential as a palaeo-meltwater proxy. First, we confirmed that M. edulis shell calcite oxygen isotope (δ 18 O c ) values are in equilibrium with ambient water and generally reflect meltwater conditions. Subsequently we investigated if this species recorded the full range of δ 18 O w values occurring during the years 2007 to 2010. Results show that δ 18 O w values were not recorded at very low salinities (< ∼ 19), because the mussels appear to cease growing. This implies that M. edulis δ 18 O c values are suitable in reconstructing past meltwater amounts in most cases, but care has to be taken that shells are collected not too close to a glacier, but rather in the midregion or mouth of the fjord. The focus of future research will expand on the geographical and temporal range of the shell measurements by sampling mussels in other fjords in Greenland along a south-north gradient, and by sampling shells from raised shorelines and archaeological shell middens from prehistoric settlements in Greenland.

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Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

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“…Shell aragonite is precipitated in annual growth increments, which are clearly visible in dorsoventral sections of the shell. Shell aragonite of many freshwater bivalve species is deposited in oxygen isotopic equilibrium with the ambient water (Dettman et al 1999;Goewert et al 2007;Kaandorp et al 2003). Analysing growth increments at high-spatial resolution can thus reveal seasonal patterns in d 18 O ar .…”

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Can shells of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) be used to estimate low summer discharge of rivers and associated droughts?

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“…Many re cent stud ies show that car bon and ox y gen iso to pic pro files of bi valve shell ma te rial de pend not only on host-wa ter chem is try, but also on growth-rate changes over life span and sam pling res o lu tion (e.g., Khim, 2002;Goodwin et al, 2003;Kaandorp et al, 2003;Khim et al, 2003;Verdegaal et al, 2005;Versteegh et al, 2009). Com plete ar chiv ing of en vi ron men tal sig nals in shell ar agon ite is pre cluded by chang ing intra-an nual growth rate, that de clines through on tog eny and might be paired fi nally with fre quent ac cre tion halts (e.g., Goodwin et al, 2003).…”

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“…As ex pected, pro gres sively less iso to pic in for ma tion is revealed with ad vanced bi valve age, mean ing that fast ac cre tion took place in the first years of in di vid ual life, re sult ing in the best es ti mates of en vi ron men tal sig nals (e.g., Kaandorp et al, 2003). The ju ve nile stage in stud ied mus sels is marked by values on semi-con stant level in the both iso to pic re cords (Fig.…”

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Comparative oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Miocene and recent lacustrine unionid bivalves from Poland

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3 As so ci a tion of Pol ish Cli ma tol o gists, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Po land 4 PHACOPS As so ci a tion of Friends of Geosciences, Łódź, Po land Błażejowski B., Racki G., Gieszcz P., Małkowski K., Kin A. and Krzywiecka K. (2013) Com par a tive ox y gen and car bon iso topic re cords of Mio cene and re cent lac us trine unionid bi valves from Po land. Geo log i cal Quar terly, 57 (1): 113-122, doi: 10.7306/gq.1072The d 13 C and d 18 O iso tope data from both fos sil (Mio cene) and mod ern fresh wa ter bi valve shells of fam ily Unionidae from Poland (spe cies Margaritifera flabellatiformis and Unio tumidus, re spec tively) show a sim i lar, trun cated si nu soi dal pat tern. The iso to pic pro files of the shells are vis i bly marked by three growth stages, linked with a pro gres sive loss of en vi ron men tal record be cause of de clin ing intra-an nual biocarbonate ac cre tion rate. The ju ve nile and gerontic phases ex hibit gen er ally more pos i tive and sta ble (pla teau) iso to pic pat tern than the mid-age stage. An in creas ing d 13 C trend is typ i cal for the fi nal life stage, likely in flu enced by nu tri ent over load ing, re vers ing the ten dency to wards 13 C de ple tion through out the in di vid ual's life induced by met a bolic pro cesses. Due to the pro gres sive loss of en vi ron men tal sig nals through on tog eny, these ini tial and fi nal iso to pic pro file seg ments prob a bly cor re spond to, re spec tively, an in stant sig na ture of the first sea son growth, and a multiyear value set of sum mer max ima dur ing ge ri at ric stage. Vague sea sonal cy clic re cord is the strik ing fea ture of the mid-age d18 O and d 13 C pro file slices. In case of low-am pli tude d 18 O curve, this is prob a bly pro moted by a sen si tiv ity of the lake eco sys tem to many dy namic intra-an nual fac tors af fect ing wa ter bud get bal ance. This con sis tent sig na ture mode seems to be typ i cal for lake-dwell ing unionid shells at least since Mio cene from dif fer ent cli ma tic zones, as con firmed by coeval lac us trine low-lat i tude mus sels from Amazonia. Thus, this iso tope re cord is rel e vant to ob tain in for ma tion on the hab i tat and life cy cle of the fos sil fresh wa ter bi valves, as well as could help to un der stand mod ern en vi ron men tal change.

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Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis

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Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

Can shells of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) be used to estimate low summer discharge of rivers and associated droughts?

Comparative oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Miocene and recent lacustrine unionid bivalves from Poland

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Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis

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Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of &lt;i&gt;Mytilus edulis&lt;/i&gt;: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of &lt;i&gt;Mytilus edulis&lt;/i&gt;: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

Can shells of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) be used to estimate low summer discharge of rivers and associated droughts?

Comparative oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Miocene and recent lacustrine unionid bivalves from Poland

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Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?

Oxygen isotope ratios in the shell of <i>Mytilus edulis</i>: archives of glacier meltwater in Greenland?