Predicting the effect of fouling organisms and climate change on integrated shellfish aquaculture
Giacoletti, A.; Bosch-Belmar, M.; Mangano, M.C.; Tantillo, M.F.; Sarà, G.; Milisenda, G. (2024). Predicting the effect of fouling organisms and climate change on integrated shellfish aquaculture. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 201: 116167. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116167
In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. Macmillan: London. ISSN 0025-326X; e-ISSN 1879-3363, more
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Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 [WoRMS]; Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820 [WoRMS] Marine/Coastal |
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- Giacoletti, A.
- Bosch-Belmar, M.
- Mangano, M.C.
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- Tantillo, M.F.
- Sarà, G.
- Milisenda, G.
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Abstract |
Aquaculture industry represents a continuously growing sector playing a fundamental role in pursuing United Nation's goals. Increasing sea-surface temperatures, the growth of encrusting species and current cage cleaning practices proved to affect the productivity of commercial species. Here, through a Dynamic Energy Budget application under two different IPCC scenarios, we investigate the long-term effects of Pennaria disticha fragments' on Mytilus galloprovincialis' functional traits as a result of cage cleaning practices. While Climate-Change did not exert a marked effect on mussels' Life-History traits, the simulated effect of cage cleanings highlighted a positive effect on total weight, fecundity and time to commercial size. West-Mediterranean emerged as the most affected sector, with Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey between the top-affected countries. These outcomes confirm the reliability of a DEB-approach in projecting at different spatial and temporal scale eco-physiological results, avoiding the limitation of short-term studies and the difficulties of long-term ones.
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