Mytilus edulis growth rates from a three-month mesocosm experiment, Sylt, 2022

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This dataset contains individual-level measurements of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis collected during a controlled mesocosm experiment at Sylt, Germany. Data were collected over a three-month period from 2 April 2022 to 27 June 2022. The experiment comprised twelve mesocosms, with four maintained at ambient temperature, four maintained at +1.5°C above ambient, and four at +3 °C above ambient. Observations include shell length, shell-length growth rates, and multiple biomass fractions, including total wet weight, wet tissue mass weight, shell-free dry weight, and ash-free dry weight, from which weight-based growth rates were calculated. All measurements were obtained using standard, traceable laboratory and field instruments. The dataset documents individual-level growth responses of M. edulis under controlled warming conditions and provides a reproducible resource for studies on physiological responses of coastal bivalves to temperature changes.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992646
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-184
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70231
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.992646
Provenance
Creator Mehler, Knut ORCID logo; Steinmann, Anna ORCID logo; Rick, Johannes J ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03F0913C https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=03F0913C DAM sustainMare - iSeal, AWI
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 10029 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (8.438 LON, 55.022 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z