Figure 1
Impact of salinity on three indexes of basal metabolism (OCR, AER and CER), patterns of diurnal rhythm and O:N ratios of three size Corbicula fluminea. Diurnal rhythm of metabolic rate for three size ranges of C. fluminea at (A) 0.3‰ and (B) 1.8‰ salinity treatments, and effect of C. fluminea body size and salinity on (C) oxygen consumption rate, (D) CO2 emission rate, (E) ammonia excretion rate and (F) O: N ratio. Letters a, b and c are used to show significant differences between OCR, CER, AER and O: N ratio from the different sizes of C. fluminea, equal letters show not significantly different (one-way ANOVA).