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Vertical distribution, grazing and egg production of calanoid copepods during winter-spring in Gullmarsfjorden
Titelman, J.; Tiselius, P. (1998). Vertical distribution, grazing and egg production of calanoid copepods during winter-spring in Gullmarsfjorden, in: Baden, S. et al. Recruitment, colonization, and physical-chemical forcing in marine biological systems: Proceedings of the 32nd European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Lysekil, Sweden, 16-22 August 1997. Developments in Hydrobiology, 132: pp. 343-351. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2864-5_28
In: Baden, S. et al. (1998). Recruitment, colonization, and physical-chemical forcing in marine biological systems: Proceedings of the 32nd European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Lysekil, Sweden, 16-22 August 1997. Developments in Hydrobiology, 132. Springer Science+Business Media: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-0-7923-5273-0; e-ISBN 978-94-017-2864-5. IX, 380 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2864-5, more
In: Dumont, H.J. (Ed.) Developments in Hydrobiology. Kluwer Academic/Springer: The Hague; London; Boston; Dordrecht. ISSN 0167-8418, more
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Titelman, J.; Tiselius, P. (1998). Vertical distribution, grazing and egg production of calanoid copepods during winter-spring in Gullmarsfjorden. Hydrobiologia 375: 343-351. https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1017059613377, more

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Keywords
    Algal blooms
    Aquatic communities > Plankton > Zooplankton
    Distribution > Geographical distribution > Vertical distribution
    Food consumption
    Food webs
    Population dynamics
    Properties > Biological properties > Fecundity
    Copepoda [WoRMS]
    ANE, Sweden [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Titelman, J.
  • Tiselius, P.

Abstract
    The vertical distribution of copepods in relation to their potential food was examined in Gullmarsfjorden, Sweden (58°15.6′ N, 11°27.2′ E). Plankton distributions were determined from bottle samples at 5 m intervals on four occasions; 30 January, 28 February, 7 March and 10 April 1996. Potential food was crudely divided into chlorophyll containing protists (generally phytoplankton) and ciliates. Weak correlations between copepods and phytoplankton were found in January and April, while there were no correlations during the diatom spring bloom (February-March) when phytoplankton were superfluous throughout the water column. Copepods and ciliates were never correlated. Ingestion as determined from gut fluorescence and egg production analyses suggested a higher degree of herbivory during the spring bloom than before and after. There was potential for copepod predation control of ciliate biomass throughout the study. Due to low copepod abundance in January through March estimated grazing pressure was not sufficient to control phytoplankton biomass until after the diatom spring bloom. Egg production rates were constant for Centropages hamatus (~ 20 eggs female−1 day−1) on all dates but more variable (1–26 eggs female−1 day−1) for the other species. Temora longicornis and Acartia sp. both revealed their lowest fecundity during the bloom.

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