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    Climate change alters shellfish reef communities: A temperate mesocosm experiment
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    1. EmmaPlank 01 Sep 2025
      Temperature also affected the behavioural preferences of the infauna associated with mussels. Polychaetes, crustaceans, and molluscs altered their behaviour to colonise the habitat created by one species of mussel to another. This altered behavioural preference of infauna can be driven by habitat-specific cues and the ability of infauna to make habitat choices

      The authors talked about some behavioral changes to the infauna that is associated with the mussels. Would the behavioral changes be positive or negative effect towards them or other species in their environment?

    2. EmmaPlank 01 Sep 2025
      After the 4-week acclimation period, the mussels were defaunated by carefully removing all infauna and separating adult mussels (>1 cm) into 10-cm-diameter clumps (Cole, 2010).

      Would we have seen different result if they acclimation period was longer for the mussels? Would a longer acclimation or a shorter one not really affect the mussels or the result to much?

    3. EmmaPlank 01 Sep 2025
      The outdoor experiment was performed in a purpose-built facility (Pereira et al., 2019) at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS), Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. The experiment was performed during the summer peak recruitment period of marine invertebrates in Sydney Harbour.

      Would the researchers get similar or the same results, if they did not perform the experiment during the peak recruitment period? How different would the results be if they where during the low recruitment period?

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