Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Øivind Strand Coordinator email oivind.strand@imr.no
Coordinator institution
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2007 End year 2011 Funding (€) € NA Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/176781?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=330&Soknad=Personlig+utenlandsstipend&source=FORISS&projectId=164795 Summary The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Research Council of Norway -project 137326). The Aquaculture Division, Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI), Florida, USA, has offered Ellen Sofie Grefsrud a post doc position at HBOI, to study predator-prey interactions to improve sea ranching of the queen conch Strombus gigas. HBOI has a Queen Conch Culture and Ranching Research Program with one of the specific goals that includes predator, prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch for commercial ranching, stock enhancement and reseeding conch into depleted habitats. Dr Ellen Sofie Grefsrud will contribute to the research by determine if the conch can be conditioned by the presence of a predator, both to bury and also to gain shell strength. This will be a behavioural morphological study with juvenile queen conch, Strombus gigas, and various predators (we have a choice of crabs, spiny lobster, octopus, gastropods and fish). Laboratory studies in established experimental facilities are planned and the results will subsequently be used and tested in applied field studies.
Keywords
Food web;
Biology;
Gastropod;
Queen conch;
Shellfish;
Sea ranching;
Mollusc;
Open sea aquaculture;
Marine Region
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
4
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