Spyvalve chronicles daily: Update for Mediterranean Mussels at ManMarina on 2025-03-24

Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

\(\\\) To cite this article: Cottingham A, Beatty S, Tweedley J. (2024). Spyvalve chronicles daily: Update for Mediterranean Mussels at ManMarina on 2025-03-24. Spyvalve Repositories, Vol. 1.

Spyvavle chronicles daily for ManMarina provides updates on weather and bivalve (Agents) activity for the previous 24h period (from midnight). The report provides information on data aquisition, number of active agents (individuals providing sufficient data), and valve gaping activities, incuding average activity, amount of time valves remained closed, number of full and micro-closures and synchronised closing events.

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Weather conditions

The following weather report is autogenerated based on data obtained from the Bureau of Meteorology for Mandurah. The contents of this report have not undergone rigorous assessment and thus care must be taken when drawing conclusions.

Air temperatures recorded at Mandurah ranged from 21 to 31.4 degrees C. Total rainfall was 0 mm. Humidity ranged from 35 to 75% (Fig.1). Maximum wind speed was 19 km/h (Fig.2).

Figure 1. Weather conditions recorded for Mandurah.

Figure 2. Wind conditions (direction and speed) recorded at Mandurah.

Data records for last day

WARNING. This report is autogenerated daily for data collected at ManMarina. The contents of this report have not undergone rigorous assessment. Care must be taken when drawing conclusions from the following analyses.

Figure 1. Approximate frequency of data records received by the network. This represents ~99 % of possible records for this station.

There were 7 active agents sending data (Table 1). These are based on the difference between the minimum and maximum mV values for each Agent, with a minimum difference of 10 mV being sufficient to deem those data relaible. Unreliable Agents are removed from analyses. Over the day percentage open ranged from 0 to 91 %. The number of closures for the day ranged from 1 to 113 and the number of micro-closures from 0 to 146. The maximum time all mussels closed at once was 1 minutes.

	Active	Min (mV)	Max(mV)	Diff(mV)	% open	n closures	n micro-closures
A000	Active	494	506	12	83	24	83
A001	Active	503	537	34	47	46	55
A002	Down	490	495	5	NA	NA	NA
A003	Active	499	513	14	82	113	133
A004	Active	505	523	18	53	54	54
A005	Active	495	505	10	81	97	146
A006	Active	510	538	28	91	11	6
A007	Active	33	507	474	0	1	0

Mean of shell gaping activity

Figure 4. Average of mussel gape activity recorded for 7 relaible agents. Data were transformed, with values of 1.0 corresponding to shells being open to their greatest extent and values <0.2 (red-dashed line) considered as shell being closed

Shell closures by the hour

Figure 5. Number of closures and total time each agent spent closed.

Figure 6. Transformed mussel gape activity for the 7 relaible agents and water temperature at ManMarina.

Appendix

Appendix 1. Raw valve gape activity for ManMarina.