Biological Oceanography

There are few similarly detailed studies of the Boyson type. A critical issue is the lack in the ocean ...

temperature, food availability, and individual size. The animal was Calanus pacificus collected from Puget S ...

Fig. 7.15 Growth rates of two copepodite stages of C. pacificus at three temperatures (8°, ; 12°, Δ; ...

The effect of food on size at a given stage is hyperbolic in form (Fig. 7.15), becoming asymptotic a ...

(^) Vidal combined his results into a complex predictive equation for growth (secondary producti ...

well-worked example. Part of the difficulty is uncertainty about what and how much animals actually eat in ...

(^) Oxygen consumption per unit weight, measured by before-and-after Winkler titrations, decreases with ...

habitat temperature such that smaller organisms are more affected than large ones. Predicted shift in re ...

use the fitted equations in a production study, you have to tolerate errors of about five- fold, as indica ...

Is Mesozooplankton Secondary Production Controlled by Temperature or Food Availability? (^) Reviewing the approa ...

(^) to obtain a growth-rate estimate, g. (^) The results (Fig. 7.19) showed two seemingly odd things: (i) both D ...

They fitted a function (shown in Fig. 7.19b) to their growth-rate curve: (^) where T is the temperature i ...

(^) The approach remains the subject of review and argument. Huntley and Lopez in their development chose some ...

triangles, sac spawners; open symbols, field data; filled symbols, maximum rations (laboratory). (b) Weight-s ...

regression line approach 1 d−1 above 10°C and would be primarily those for small copepods, in modest di ...

production. Secondary Production by Microheterotrophs (^) There is, as yet, no direct observational technique fo ...

Chapter 8 Population biology of zooplankton Population dynamics of protists, including phytoplankton, are relative ...

Copepods, with their fixed sequence of stages and their reliable presence in samples from all marine ...

other species must also, given the impressive array of chemosensory setae (aesthetascs) on the anten ...

requires much higher population density. It may also force mate-seeking females to move as much as m ...