Biological Oceanography

2 Clutch size is greater for larger females: in C. finmarchicus 45 eggs per clutch at 2.5 mm prosome leng ...

They mature from their diapause stage spent below 500 m, remaining there to mate and then spawn. Nut ...

many habitat situations. Significant and separate issues are how many eggs hatch and how many of the first ...

Nauplii with deformed limbs are not found in field collections, where diatoms are certainly sometimes the ...

class of polyunsaturated aldehydes with molecular weight around 152 daltons. Not all diatoms produce these ...

Euphausiids, too, divide into free-spawning (e.g. Euphausia, Thysanoessa) and egg- carrying (e.g. Nematos ...

(^) Ross and Quetin’s (1984) observations for E. superba in the Antarctic are similar in kind. Mature females ...

but cold adaptation is expected in antarctic krill. Maturity comes as early as 36 mm total length, with ...

(1999) have shown that M. norvegica has a strong relationship between its egg production and mol ...

(^) (After Nagasawa 1984.) (^) Nagasawa was too polite to contradict an old and widely accepted idea put forwa ...

by inverse population oscillations of copepods and Oikopleura dioica in the Baltic Sea. Mortality Rates and Age ...

population survivorship. In the same vein, of course, a horizontal life table can trace the fate of a co ...

(^) The horizontal method has been applied also to copepod populations, with stage distinctions used as a ...

Fig. 8.9 Cohort patterns for Acartia californiensis in upper Yaquina Bay, Oregon (USA), during 1972. Each g ...

(^) One such model was developed by Simon Wood and applied to a Pseudocalanus newmani population in Dabob Ba ...

female abundance. Egg mortality is relatively low and about the same as for females, presumably because eggs are ...

where S is the fractional survival per day. The exponential mortality rate is m = –ln(S). That’s simple, ...

An additional problem with application of the Mullin–Brooks calculation is that most copepod p ...

determine for a population vertically dispersed in a stratified water column. (^) Despite the difficulties, ther ...

Models based on full representation of population-dynamical processes are developing rapidly, and estimates ...