According to climate change scenarios the incidence of extreme events, such as flooding, is expected increase worldwide. In current context, understanding behavioural responses marine species stressors essential, especially for high ecological and economic interest bivalves, which can be quite useful future management conservation actions. this study, a laboratory experiment using different sal...

The impact of two principal parasitic digenetic trematodes, Meiogymnophallus minutus and Himasthla spp., on the growth (weight and length) of the cockle, Cerastoderma edule, in Arcachon Bay (France) was studied. The experiment was conducted in the land-based mesocosms. The velocity of infestation with both trematodes was far more rapid during summer in the cockles already parasitized with these...