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Wen-yu Wang, Chang-fu Fan, Zhao-jun Song, Hong Wang, Fu Wang, 2024. Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) shell growth duration in a year in Bohai Bay and implication for its carbon sink potential, China Geology, 7, 653-660. doi: 10.31035/cg2023054
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Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) shell growth duration in a year in Bohai Bay and implication for its carbon sink potential
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Abstract
Oyster is a bivalve mollusk widely distributed in estuarine and shallow sea environments. Its growth and burial process is a carbon sequestration and storage process. Oyster shell may stop growing due to suffer from freeze shock during the winter season within a temperate climate, therefore, in order to study the carbon sequestration capacity of oysters we need to know the water temperature at which the shell suffer from winter freeze shock. This study examines δ18O profiles across consecutive micro-growth layers found in three modern Pacific oyster shells from the northwest coast of Bohai Bay. A total of 165 oxygen isotope values from sequential samples of their left shells showed periodically varying values, and the variation fluctuation of oxygen isotope values was 4.97‰ on average. According to the variation range of the oxygen isotope value of the shell, combined with the sea surface temperature and the sea surface salinity data of the water in which the oysters grew, the water temperature that suffer from winter freeze shock and stops or retards the growth of Pacific oysters in Bohai Bay is about 8.3°C, and the corresponding period is from December to March of the following year. The calcification time of oysters within one year is nearly a month longer than previously thought, therefore, its carbon sink potential is also improved.
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Figure 1.
Map showing the distribution of buried and living oyster reefs on the northwest coast of Bohai Bay and the sampling site for this study (modified from Wang H et al., 2006).
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Figure 2.
Time series of salinity, temperature, and precipitation for the years 2005-2009 (Fan CF et al., 2011). Temperature and salinity measurements were taken near the modern living oyster reef by the State Ocean Information Center of China. Monthly averages were calculated from hourly measurements. Precipitation data were sourced from the Tianjin Statistical Yearbook.
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Figure 3.
Isotope values and morphology of the left valve of the modern living shell ST2. a– δ18O and δ13C profiles of a selected portion of shell within the ligament area. b–cross-sectional view of the ligament area in shell ST2, showing translucent growth bands and the locations of sample sites. Arrows show the locations of the growth layers that formed during low winter temperatures.
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Figure 4.
Isotope values and morphology of the left valve of the modern living shell ST25. a–δ18O and δ13C profiles of a selected portion of shell within the ligament area. b–cross-sectional view of the ligament area in shell ST25, showing translucent growth bands and the locations of sample sites. Arrows are the same as in Fig. 3.
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Figure 5.
Isotope values and morphology of the left valve of the modern living shell ST31. a–δ18O and δ13C profiles of a selected portion of shell within the ligament area. b–cross-sectional view of the ligament area in shell ST31, showing translucent growth bands and the locations of sample sites. Arrows are the same as in Fig. 3.
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Figure 6.
Salinity-δ18Owater relationship of the estuaries water in the living oyster reef area of Bohai Bay (modified from Fan CF et al., 2012).