Biological Oceanography

and the larvae produced grow into filtering barrels with budding stolons that generate new colonies. Both ...

(^) (Drawings from Alvariño 1965.) Chaetognaths are frequent and abundant predators in the mari ...

The likely importance of this is to stop vibrations that could give away the predator’s position to i ...

of a jellyfish’s swimming bell? How can a flat patch of gland cells, the appendicularian oikopla ...

Chapter 7 Production ecology of marine zooplankton Zooplanktologists” are interested in the animals themsel ...

organisms smaller than the mesh can be attracted to it, then stick. Box 7.1 Oceans are a trophically dilute m ...

a pair of porous membranes kept from flying apart under flow pressure by an internal cross-lacing ...

captured particles. (^) Extraction of particles from their watery background by crustaceans occurs by sever ...

(^) Copepods probably have several mechanisms for particle feeding. That of Eucalanus pileatus ...

copepod mouthparts (Box 7.2) is in the viscous regime of flow, that is, at low Reynolds numbers ...

setae. The uniramous maxillae (or second maxillae) follow, bearing a palisade of slender, long setae that ...

Particles are detected during this sequence at a distance, before they touch any part of the copepod. ...

showed an intriguing aspect of this detection mechanism. They took repeated films of E. pileatus afte ...

response. (^) Some diatoms encased in hard opal are far too large and stiff to swallow. However, Jansen (2008 ...

(^) From a trophic–dynamic viewpoint, the interesting aspect of zooplankton feeding is not how it is done, but ...

animal is very small relative to the volume of water it must “search” by the Koehl– Strickler or other ...

food availability; that is, they do not eat more than growth and metabolism require. 4 The maximum rati ...

Calanus pacificus females are about 170 μg dry weight, which at 40% carbon includes 68 μg ...

49 ml per copepod per hour (over 1 liter per day) feeding on large cells after a period of starvation, a ...

selection, and particle rejections are obvious in the high-speed films. 4 Animal size affects feeding as you would ...