From youth to death of old age: the 50-year story of a Pinna nobilis fan mussel population at Port-Cros Island (Port-cros National Park, Provence, Mediterranean Sea)
Mots clés : Pinna nobilis, long-term monitoring, longevity, Port-Cros National Park, Mediterranean
A population of the fan mussel Pinna nobilis Linnaeus, 1758 (molluscan, Bivalvia) has been studied since 1969 at Port-Cros Island (Port-Cros National Park, Provence, France, Mediterranean Sea). This population dwelt on a substrate constituted of dead rhizomes of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (...