Fig. 7.6 Ingestion rate of Calanus pacificus as a function of body weight, all at 15 °C.
Filtering rates increase similarly. Naupliar and copepodite stages, indicated by Roman
numerals, varied somewhat in weights attained and ingestion rates among four species
of food, represented by the separate lines. Ingestion increases roughly as weight to the
0.87 power.
(^) (After Paffenhöfer 1971.)