Coastal intrusion of copepods: mechanisms and consequences on the population biology of Rhincalanus nasutus |
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Authors: | Castro LR; Bernal PA; Troncoso VA |
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Institution: | P. Universidad Catolica de Chile at Talcahuano BIOTECMAR, Casilla 127, Talcahuano, Chile
1Present address: Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA
2Present address: Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, Jose Domingo Caas 2277 Casilla 1287, Santiago, Chile |
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Abstract: | In contrast to its usual habitat as a copepod that may occurin shelf or slope waters with low oxygen content between depthsfrom the surface to >2000 m, Rhincalanus nasutus was foundin a shallow (<60 m) embayment, the Arauco Gulf in Chile.Here, we document the complex life history of this copepod wheredid and ontogenetic vertical migratory behavior was co-ordinatedwith the circulation pattern which helped to retain a summerresident population in the vicinity of the gulf. With the onsetof the upwelling season in the southern summer, the mid-depthEquatorial Sub Surface Waters intrude into the gulf, leadingto the formation of a strong thermocline at 1020 m andthe development of a two-layer circulation pattern. CopepoditesI, C.II and C.III (first stage to exhibit migratory behavior)were found within the gulf in the layer where the net transportwas at a minimum while chlorophyll-a concentrations were ata maximum. Older stages (C.IV-C.VI females and males) migratefrom their daytime depth in the bottom, shoreward-moving, low-oxygenlayer, to their night-time depth in the shallow seaward-movinglayer. The population of copepods retained in the area thuslyreproduce, as reflected in the sequential pulses of differentdevelopmental stages. Because coastal intrusions such as thisof R.nasutus have been documented for several other speciesduring the seasons of maximum phytoplankton production (upwelling),they may form part of a more widespread reproductive strategyof the larger zooplankton of coastal upwelling systems thanpreviously suspected. |
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