Topic
Geoduck
About: Geoduck is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 160 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2266 citations. The topic is also known as: Panopea generosa.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the potential for developing sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions in the northeast Pacific from combinations of tree-ring and growth-increment chronologies of the long-lived marine bivalve, the Pacific geoduck.
89 citations
TL;DR: It is indicated that butter clams account for the majority of the sea otter diet in southeast Alaska, and that sea urchins may represent relatively short-term prey in comparison to infaunal bivalves in regions where both prey types co-exist.
Abstract: Direct observations of feeding sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at 11 sites in southeast Alaska showed infaunal clams to be the primary prey utilized by otters throughout the region. Foraging dive times associated with clam and sea urchin prey were significantly longer than those for more easily captured prey (crabs and mussels). Dive times and surface intervals were also generally correlated with water depth or apparent difficulty in obtaining buried prey. Male otters, which fed more extensively on clams than females, made significantly longer foraging dives than females. Foraging success remained high, even at sites where prey numbers were found to be very low during a related study. The very deeply burrowing geoduck clam (Panope abrupta), while common at several otter feeding sites, was rarely captured by otters. These results, combined with those of a companion study on prey numbers, indicate that butter clams (Saxidomus giganteus) account for the majority of the sea otter diet in southeast Alaska, and that sea urchins may represent relatively short-term prey in comparison to infaunal bivalves in regions where both prey types co-exist. Furthermore, the importance of butter clams in the sea otter diet and the tendency for this bivalve to retain chronically high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in southeast Alaska increases the probability that toxic phytoplankton blooms influence sea otter distribution in this region.
74 citations
TL;DR: Geoduck (Panopea abrupta) stocks are perceived as stable and their fisheries as sustainable, but this may reflect a mismatch between slow-paced dynamics and short-term perception, which could accelerate population declines and drive an apparently sustainable fishery to collapse.
Abstract: Geoduck (Panopea abrupta) stocks are perceived as stable and their fisheries as sustainable, but this may reflect a mismatch between slow-paced dynamics (maximum recorded age 168 years) and short-t...
61 citations
Journal Article•
61 citations
1 Dec 1989
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a series of profiles of coastal aquatic organisms of sport, commercial, or ecological importance to provide coastal managers, engineers, and biologists with a brief comprehensive sketch of the biological characteristics and environmental requirements of the species and to describe how populations may be expected to react to environmental changes caused by coastal development.
Abstract: This species profile is one of a series on coastal aquatic organisms, principally fish, of sport, commercial, or ecological importance. The profiles are designed to provide coastal managers, engineers, and biologists with a brief comprehensive sketch of the biological characteristics and environmental requirements of the species and to describe how populations of the species may be expected to react to environmental changes caused by coastal development. Each profile has sections on taxonomy, life history, ecological role, environmental requirements, and economic importance, if applicable. This profile discusses the Pacific geoduck clam. 29 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.
57 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2022 | 1 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2017 | 8 |