Gut clearance rate constant, temperature and initial gut contents: a review

The influence of temperature (T) and initial gut contents onestimates of copepod gut clearance rate constant (GCRC) is reviewedfrom literature data. Previous results on the relationship betweentemperature and GCRC are confirmed, and the inclusion of initialgut contents did not increase the significance of the model.Nevertheless, a significant difference was found between theexperiments performed with pre-fed animals and animals fromthe environment. A high percentage of variability remains unexplained,but part of this is likely to be due to experimental error anddiffer ences in the methods used.