Spyvalve chronicles daily: Update for Mediterranean Mussels at Harvey on 2025-09-13

Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

\(\\\) To cite this article: Cottingham A, Beatty S, Tweedley J. (2025). Spyvalve chronicles daily: Update for Mediterranean Mussels at Harvey on 2025-09-12. Spyvalve Repositories, Vol. 1.

Spyvavle chronicles daily for Harvey 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 16.9 to 20.8 degrees C. Total rainfall was 2.8 mm. Humidity ranged from 44 to 92% (Fig.1). Maximum wind speed was 32 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 Harvey. 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 ~100 % of possible records for this station.

There were 6 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 36 to 99 %. The number of closures for the day ranged from 1 to 221 and the number of micro-closures from 6 to 221. 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	Down	522	530	8	NA	NA	NA
A001	Down	519	525	6	NA	NA	NA
A002	Active	526	546	20	91	9	11
A003	Active	507	522	15	39	221	221
A004	Active	525	547	22	36	217	214
A005	Active	506	518	12	99	1	160
A006	Active	455	524	69	98	3	6
A007	Active	521	543	22	64	90	95

Mean of shell gaping activity

Figure 4. Average of mussel gape activity recorded for 6 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 6 relaible agents and water temperature at Harvey.

Appendix

Appendix 1. Raw valve gape activity for Harvey.