Biological Oceanography

extreme disturbance rather than the general level of turbulence. Nevertheless, turbulence certainly affects some ...

Fig. 7.6 Ingestion rate of Calanus pacificus as a function of body weight, all at 15 °C. Filtering rate ...

Fig. 7.7 (a) Maximum laboratory feeding rates as a function of body biomass (W, carbon) for calanoid copepodi ...

Other Mesozooplankton Groups (^) Filtering-rate determinations for euphausiids, also important in the plan ...

of food concentration tested. While there must be an upper limit to ingestion rate for this, or any, ...

Box 7.4 Clearance rates from pigments in gut contents (^) Mackas and Bohrer (1976) developed an ingestion-rate ...

(^) A great deal of discussion has been occasioned by the fact that some, or often most, of the pigm ...

the lines (Fig. 7.9a) are proportional to the filtering rates. Food levels were allowed to drop, falling e ...

Protistan Feeding and Feeding rates (^) Since about 1985 – surprisingly late – we have been aware o ...

very small) and from chemicals dispersing from prey. Sensed chemicals can be quite simple, like those a ...

dilution series (Landry & Hassett 1982) (^) Dilution series produce bulk estimates of the rate of microh ...

(^) Strom et al. (2001) used dilution experiments to show that very large fractions of phytoplankton p ...

Ingestion and growth rates rise gradually with increasing prey abundance, whereas clearance rates drop. ...

their function for long periods (Stoecker et al. 2009). (^) Some of the importance of microheterotrophy arise ...

follows: Secondary productivity is the rate of change in the biomass of grazers, ΔΛ 2 /Δt, plus the portion of ...

the ratio (P : B) of carbon added in the incubation interval (production rate, P) to carbon biomass (B) is t ...

copepodite stages (∼5 days), these issues are less important. There will be strong changes in length, ...

(^) where 2°P is the daily, secondary production of the population, i signifies the life- cycle stage (or a ...

First nauplii (N1) were obviously undersampled, possibly hatching and staying too close to the bottom to ...

cohort was said to be in a given stage was determined as the balance point of the cohort block in each ...