<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-IN">Biocalcification of aragonite by tellinid bivalve <i>Macoma birmanica </i>(Philippi) on the tidal mudflat in the Sundarban mangrove forest, north-east coast of India</span>

Abstract

The annual biocalcification of aragonite by <i>Macoma binnanica </i>was found to be 314.3 g m^-2y^-1 which is 2.5 times higher than biomass production and almost equal to the elimination rate, 311.4 g m^-2y^-1. Rapid response of this biogenous

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;="" mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-IN">aragonite to the processes of neutralization of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide through its dissolution was observed, which was almost close to its maximum capacity.</span>