Motion behavior of nauplii and early copepodid stages of marine planktonic copepods |
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Authors: | Paffenhofer G-A; Strickler JR; Lewis KD; Richman S |
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Institution: | Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 10 Ocean Science Circle, Savannah, GA 31411
1Center for Great Lakes Research, University of Wisconsin 600 East Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53204
2Department of Biology, Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54912, USA |
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Abstract: | The goal of this study was to quantify periods of activity andvelocities of late naupliar and early copepodid stages of planktoniccopepods occurring regularly on the southeastern continentalshelf of the USA. We obtained quantitative information on eightspecies, including adult females of Oithona plumifera. All studieswere conducted at food concentrations near or above satiationlevels. Activities ranged from 0.85% (adult females of O.plumifera)to 100% of time (nauplii and copepodids of various calanoidspecies). Motion velocities (excluding escape motion) coveredmore than one order of magnitude: from 0.39 mm s1 fornauplii of Temora stylifera to 5.24 mm s1 for naupliiof Oncaea mediterranea. Ranges of activities of species rangefrom occasional for early juveniles to adult females of O.plumiferato 100% for the same range of T.stylifera, the latter creatinga feeding current from N III onwards, the former not at all.Of notable interest is Centropages velificatus which moves intermittentlyas a late nauplius, continuously as an early copepodid and intermittentlyas an adult. All observed calanoid late nauplii and copepodidsmove in three dimensions, excluding copepodids of the shelfbreak/oceanicParacalanus aculeatus. The results indicate not only significantdifferences in motion behavior between cyclopoids and calanoids,but also between calanoid species. Yet, some calanoid speciesshow little ontogenetic changes at all. |
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