Citation:

PANGAEA.965715

Name: Thickness measurements of the blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) sampled along the east coast of the US
Published: 2024-04-19
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: density; morphology; museum collections; mussels; North Atlantic; porosity; warming

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Keyword(s):

density; morphology; museum collections; mussels; North Atlantic; porosity; warming

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 41.122944 * Median Longitude: -72.371034 * South-bound Latitude: 40.479689 * West-bound Longitude: -74.007155 * North-bound Latitude: 42.419918 * East-bound Longitude: -70.632275

Event(s):

ME_2021_BBNY (ME_2021_BBNY_1-10) * Latitude: 40.574870 * Longitude: -73.956550 * Location: North Atlantic * Method/Device: Sampling by hand (HAND)

ME_2021_CINY (ME_2021_CINY_1-10) * Latitude: 40.572870 * Longitude: -73.982630 * Location: North Atlantic * Method/Device: Sampling by hand (HAND)

ME_2021_FRNY (ME_2021_FRNY_1-10) * Latitude: 40.565174 * Longitude: -73.871134 * Location: North Atlantic * Method/Device: Sampling by hand (HAND)

Comment:

Samples were embedded in expoxy resin and polished using silicon carbide papers to expose the internal shell. Light microscope images of embedded shells were taking with the optical microscope, AmScope, B400 series. Measurements were then taken on images using imageJ (Rasband 1997-2011).

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Melbourne, Leanne
2	Latitude of event	Latitude		Melbourne, Leanne
3	Longitude of event	Longitude		Melbourne, Leanne
4	Description	Description		Melbourne, Leanne
5	Sample code/label	Sample label		Melbourne, Leanne
6	Site	Site		Melbourne, Leanne
7	Sample comment	Sample comment		Melbourne, Leanne		Year grouping
8	Location	Location		Melbourne, Leanne
9	Area/locality	Area		Melbourne, Leanne		State
10	Mytilus edulis, shell thickness	M. edulis shell thick	mm	Melbourne, Leanne	Image Processing and Analysis in Java, ImageJ, according to Rasband (1997-2011)	Average
11	Mytilus edulis, shell thickness	M. edulis shell thick	mm	Melbourne, Leanne	Image Processing and Analysis in Java, ImageJ, according to Rasband (1997-2011)	Maximum
12	Calcite	Cal	%	Melbourne, Leanne	Calculated
13	Mytilus edulis, shell thickness/shell length ratio	M. edulis shell thick/l	mm/mm	Melbourne, Leanne	Calculated	Average
14	Mytilus edulis, shell thickness/shell length ratio	M. edulis shell thick/l	mm/mm	Melbourne, Leanne	Calculated	Maximum

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

973 data points

Data

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1 Event	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 Description	5 Sample label	6 Site	7 Sample comment (Year grouping)	8 Location	9 Area (State)	10 M. edulis shell thick [mm] (Average, Image Processing and...)	11 M. edulis shell thick [mm] (Maximum, Image Processing and...)	12 Cal [%] (Calculated)	13 M. edulis shell thick/l [mm/mm] (Average, Calculated)	14 M. edulis shell thick/l [mm/mm] (Maximum, Calculated)
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1911_ECMA_1	1	Early	Essex County	Massachusetts	0.594666667	0.6350	40	0.022355890	0.023872180
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1911_ECMA_3	1	Early	Essex County	Massachusetts	0.752500000	0.9950	44	0.026875000	0.035535714
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1911_ECMA_5	1	Early	Essex County	Massachusetts	1.353375000	1.5720	50	0.033750000	0.039201995
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1911_ECMA_7	1	Early	Essex County	Massachusetts	0.670250000	0.7570	54	0.024461679	0.027627737
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1911_ECMA_9	1	Early	Essex County	Massachusetts	0.429250000	0.5550	50	0.017811203	0.023029046
ME_2023_N	42.4199	-70.9079		NA2L	1	modern	Nahant	Massachusetts	1.455000000	2.2820	52	0.023000000	0.036000000
ME_2023_N	42.4199	-70.9079		NA3L	1	modern	Nahant	Massachusetts	1.610000000	2.1020	46	0.024000000	0.032000000
ME_2023_N	42.4199	-70.9079		NA4L	1	modern	Nahant	Massachusetts	1.609000000	2.2670	45	0.029000000	0.040000000
ME_2023_N	42.4199	-70.9079		NA6L	1	modern	Nahant	Massachusetts	0.715000000	1.0520	52	0.012000000	0.018000000
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1910_VHMA_1	2	Early	Vineyard Haven	Massachusetts	0.513142857	0.6120	60	0.015363559	0.018323353
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1910_VHMA_3	2	Early	Vineyard Haven	Massachusetts	0.606750000	0.9310	56	0.013696388	0.021015801
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1910_VHMA_5	2	Early	Vineyard Haven	Massachusetts	0.754125000	1.1130	54	0.014391698	0.021240458
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1912_WHMA_1	2	Early	Woods Hole	Massachusetts	0.566000000	0.9090	60	0.011388330	0.018289738
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1912_WHMA_3	2	Early	Woods Hole	Massachusetts	1.013125000	1.3250	60	0.020846193	0.027263374
ME_2022_GIMA	41.5213	-70.6760		ME_2022_GIMA_1	2	Modern	Grassy Island	Massachusetts	0.615800000	0.9470	75	0.015589873	0.023974684
ME_2022_GIMA	41.5213	-70.6760		ME_2022_GIMA_3	2	Modern	Grassy Island	Massachusetts	0.747000000	1.0060	67	0.026583630	0.035800712
ME_2023_L	41.4630	-70.6697		LA3L	2	modern	Lambeth Cove	Massachusetts	0.376000000	0.4770	70	0.018000000	0.023000000
ME_2023_L	41.4630	-70.6697		LA4L	2	modern	Lambeth Cove	Massachusetts	0.402000000	0.5120	58	0.015000000	0.020000000
ME_2023_L	41.4630	-70.6697		LB1L	2	modern	Lambeth Cove	Massachusetts	1.002000000	1.5340	53	0.022000000	0.033000000
ME_2023_M	41.3545	-70.7673		MA1L	2	modern	Menemsha Basin	Massachusetts	0.435000000	0.6320	69	0.009000000	0.013000000
ME_2023_M	41.3545	-70.7673		MA2L	2	modern	Menemsha Basin	Massachusetts	0.448000000	0.6310	73	0.011000000	0.016000000
ME_2023_M	41.3545	-70.7673		MA3L	2	modern	Menemsha Basin	Massachusetts	0.481000000	0.7270	52	0.012000000	0.017000000
ME_2023_M	41.3545	-70.7673		MA4L	2	modern	Menemsha Basin	Massachusetts	0.482000000	0.6730	75	0.011000000	0.016000000
ME_2023_M	41.3545	-70.7673		MA5L	2	modern	Menemsha Basin	Massachusetts	0.451000000	0.6750	72	0.011000000	0.017000000
ME_2023_T	41.4676	-70.6323		TA1L	2	modern	Lake Tashmoo	Massachusetts	0.735000000	1.2200	65	0.017000000	0.028000000
ME_2023_T	41.4676	-70.6323		TA2L	2	modern	Lake Tashmoo	Massachusetts	0.341000000	0.4510	68	0.011000000	0.014000000
ME_2023_T	41.4676	-70.6323		TA3L	2	modern	Lake Tashmoo	Massachusetts	0.693000000	1.0470	61	0.020000000	0.030000000
ME_2023_T	41.4676	-70.6323		TB1L	2	modern	Lake Tashmoo	Massachusetts	0.736000000	1.0520	70	0.015000000	0.021000000
ME_2023_T	41.4676	-70.6323		TB2L	2	modern	Lake Tashmoo	Massachusetts	1.000000000	1.5830	58	0.021000000	0.033000000
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_LINY_1	3	Mid	Orient Point	New York	1.353875000	2.2530	43	0.018470327	0.030736698
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_LINY_3	3	Mid	Orient Point	New York	1.098125000	1.4040	47	0.016268519	0.020800000
ME_2021_LINY	41.0740	-71.8598		ME_2021_LINY_1	3	Modern	Montauk	New York	0.867250000	1.0820	53	0.014147635	0.017650897
ME_2021_LINY	41.0740	-71.8598		ME_2021_LINY_3	3	Modern	Montauk	New York	0.864500000	1.2940	48	0.025805970	0.038626866
ME_2021_LINY	41.0740	-71.8598		ME_2021_LINY_5	3	Modern	Montauk	New York	0.813375000	1.3290	69	0.013693182	0.022373737
ME_2021_LINY	41.0740	-71.8598		ME_2021_LINY_6	3	Modern	Montauk	New York	0.692166667	0.9750	55	0.014571930	0.020526316
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1913_WNY_1	4	Early	Westchester	New York	0.945571429	1.4310	48	0.021490260	0.032522727
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1913_WNY_3	4	Early	Westchester	New York	0.622500000	0.7090	60	0.017887931	0.020373563
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1915_BCNY_1	4	Early	Bronx County	New York	0.632666667	0.9230	53	0.016605424	0.024225722
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1915_BCNY_3	4	Early	Bronx County	New York	0.556500000	0.6930	52	0.016367647	0.020382353
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_LINY_1	4	Mid	Bayville	New York	1.338777778	1.8940	43	0.018671936	0.026415621
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_LINY_3	4	Mid	Bayville	New York	1.213166667	1.6080	51	0.018381313	0.024363636
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_LINY_5	4	Mid	Bayville	New York	1.196000000	1.8040	44	0.018287462	0.027584098
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_LINY_7	4	Mid	Bayville	New York	1.168000000	1.7660	40	0.018747994	0.028346709
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_LINY_9	4	Mid	Bayville	New York	1.402500000	2.1690	48	0.026020408	0.040241187
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1962_CT_1	4	Mid	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.772333333	2.6570	38	0.022434599	0.033632911
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1962_CT_3	4	Mid	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.339333333	1.7740	41	0.021707185	0.028752026
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1962_CT_5	4	Mid	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.259250000	2.2270	47	0.022248233	0.039346290
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1962_CT_7	4	Mid	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.064375000	1.4640	61	0.017420213	0.023960720
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1962_CT_9	4	Mid	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.398750000	2.0250	43	0.021002252	0.030405405
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_OBNY_1	4	Mid	Orchard Beach	New York	1.251875000	1.8980	51	0.026026507	0.039459459
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_OBNY_3	4	Mid	Orchard Beach	New York	0.816166667	1.1520	56	0.016897861	0.023850932
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_OBNY_5	4	Mid	Orchard Beach	New York	1.222500000	1.9850	42	0.027847380	0.045216401
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_OBNY_7	4	Mid	Orchard Beach	New York	0.718333333	1.0740	55	0.021571572	0.032252252
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1963_OBNY_9	4	Mid	Orchard Beach	New York	1.581000000	1.7110	42	0.050511182	0.054664537
ME_2022_SICT	41.1119	-73.3386		ME_2022_SICT_3	4	Modern	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.508333333	2.3170	41	0.023828331	0.036603476
ME_2022_SICT	41.1119	-73.3386		ME_2022_SICT_7	4	Modern	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	0.694428571	0.9250	56	0.029300784	0.039029536
ME_2022_SICT	41.1119	-73.3386		ME_2022_SICT_9	4	Modern	Sherwood Isle	Connecticut	1.116416667	1.4260	39	0.027497947	0.035123153
ME_2022_OBNY	40.8704	-73.7835		ME_2022_OBNY_1	4	Modern	Orchard Beach	New York	0.685071000	1.0880	56	0.015464357	0.024559819
ME_2022_OBNY	40.8704	-73.7835		ME_2022_OBNY_3	4	Modern	Orchard Beach	New York	0.995917000	1.2840	57	0.024055966	0.031014493
ME_2022_OBNY	40.8704	-73.7835		ME_2022_OBNY_5	4	Modern	Orchard Beach	New York	1.317857000	2.0980	29	0.027228450	0.043347107
ME_2022_OBNY	40.8704	-73.7835		ME_2022_OBNY_7	4	Modern	Orchard Beach	New York	1.612286000	2.1380	20	0.029367687	0.038943534
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1890_LINY_1	5	Early	Sheepshead Bay	New York	0.745357143	1.0450	52	0.014278872	0.020019157
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1890_LINY_3	5	Early	Sheepshead Bay	New York	0.658100000	1.0144	60	0.013430612	0.020702041
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1890_LINY_5	5	Early	Sheepshead Bay	New York	0.673875000	1.0280	46	0.014617679	0.022299349
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1890_LINY_7	5	Early	Sheepshead Bay	New York	0.555750000	0.9370	40	0.012214286	0.020593407
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1890_LINY_9	5	Early	Sheepshead Bay	New York	0.632375000	0.8730	52	0.013369450	0.018456660
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1909_FRNY_1	5	Early	Far Rockaway	New York	0.825444444	1.0720	65	0.016575190	0.021526104
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1909_FRNY_3	5	Early	Far Rockaway	New York	0.935200000	1.2000	52	0.013302987	0.017069701
			Early Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1909_FRNY_5	5	Early	Far Rockaway	New York	0.923600000	1.4040	51	0.014143951	0.021500766
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_RBNJ_1	5	Mid	Raritan Bay	New Jersey	0.682500000	1.0760	53	0.016250000	0.025619048
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_RBNJ_3	5	Mid	Raritan Bay	New Jersey	0.530000000	0.6790	60	0.019485294	0.024963235
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_RBNJ_5	5	Mid	Raritan Bay	New Jersey	0.480500000	0.5750	56	0.014876161	0.017801858
			Mid Historical material came from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and therefore some information is unavailable	ME_1961_RBNJ_7	5	Mid	Raritan Bay	New Jersey	0.461500000	0.5850	77	0.016250000	0.020598592
ME_2021_BBNY	40.5749	-73.9565		ME_2021_BBNY_1	5	Modern	Brighton Beach	New York	0.831125000	1.2930	46	0.016107074	0.025058140
ME_2021_BBNY	40.5749	-73.9565		ME_2021_BBNY_3	5	Modern	Brighton Beach	New York	0.958100000	1.7240	43	0.018389635	0.033090211
ME_2021_BBNY	40.5749	-73.9565		ME_2021_BBNY_5	5	Modern	Brighton Beach	New York	0.527750000	0.9660	55	0.011624449	0.021277533
ME_2021_BBNY	40.5749	-73.9565		ME_2021_BBNY_7	5	Modern	Brighton Beach	New York	1.027000000	1.3630	48	0.019674330	0.026111111
ME_2021_BBNY	40.5749	-73.9565		ME_2021_BBNY_9	5	Modern	Brighton Beach	New York	0.714500000	1.1080	59	0.015807522	0.024513274
ME_2021_CINY	40.5729	-73.9826		ME_2021_CINY_1	5	Modern	Coney Island	New York	0.678750000	0.9980	61	0.017675781	0.025989583
ME_2021_CINY	40.5729	-73.9826		ME_2021_CINY_3	5	Modern	Coney Island	New York	0.937625000	1.2110	50	0.020607143	0.026615385
ME_2021_CINY	40.5729	-73.9826		ME_2021_CINY_5	5	Modern	Coney Island	New York	0.489666667	0.8970	62	0.010575954	0.019373650
ME_2021_CINY	40.5729	-73.9826		ME_2021_CINY_7	5	Modern	Coney Island	New York	1.087650000	1.3800	50	0.023043432	0.029237288
ME_2021_CINY	40.5729	-73.9826		ME_2021_CINY_9	5	Modern	Coney Island	New York	0.814000000	1.0420	48	0.017850877	0.022850877
ME_2021_FRNY	40.5652	-73.8711		ME_2021_FRNY_1	5	Modern	Far Rockaway	New York	0.551500000	1.0170	53	0.011537657	0.021276151
ME_2021_FRNY	40.5652	-73.8711		ME_2021_FRNY_3	5	Modern	Far Rockaway	New York	0.894000000	1.4290	46	0.016137184	0.025794224
ME_2021_FRNY	40.5652	-73.8711		ME_2021_FRNY_5	5	Modern	Far Rockaway	New York	0.538250000	0.7760	59	0.013523869	0.019497487
ME_2021_FRNY	40.5652	-73.8711		ME_2021_FRNY_7	5	Modern	Far Rockaway	New York	0.387000000	0.5820	60	0.011250000	0.016918605
ME_2021_FRNY	40.5652	-73.8711		ME_2021_FRNY_9	5	Modern	Far Rockaway	New York	0.556500000	0.9910	45	0.014492188	0.025807292
ME_2022_SHNJ	40.4797	-74.0072		ME_2022_SHNJ_1	5	Modern	Sandy Hook	New Jersey	0.540792857	0.7160	51	0.013031153	0.017253012
ME_2022_SHNJ	40.4797	-74.0072		ME_2022_SHNJ_3	5	Modern	Sandy Hook	New Jersey	0.555307692	0.9140	69	0.017086391	0.028123077
ME_2022_SHNJ	40.4797	-74.0072		ME_2022_SHNJ_5	5	Modern	Sandy Hook	New Jersey	0.745000000	0.9880	57	0.017447307	0.023138173
ME_2022_SHNJ	40.4797	-74.0072		ME_2022_SHNJ_7	5	Modern	Sandy Hook	New Jersey	0.488000000	0.7210	52	0.013518006	0.019972299
ME_2022_SHNJ	40.4797	-74.0072		ME_2022_SHNJ_9	5	Modern	Sandy Hook	New Jersey	0.597571429	0.9470	57	0.021041247	0.033345070