European collaboration: Benthic Marine Research Feast or Famine: How to be asuccesful marine benthic consumer
Updated 2003-06-23
Laboratory studies have demonstrated that M. edulis close its shell and stops pumping when the algal concentration becomes below 1500 cells cm-3 of Phaeodactylum tricornutum equivalent to 1 mg Chl-a m-3 (riisgård and Randlov, 1981; Riisgårs , 1991).