Secondary production of the harpacticoid copepod Paronychocamptus nanus in a brackish-water habitat
Herman, P.M.J.; Heip, C.H.R. (1988). Secondary production of the harpacticoid copepod Paronychocamptus nanus in a brackish-water habitat, in: Heip, C.H.R. et al. (Ed.) Collected papers on meiofauna dynamics and energy flow. pp. 1-7
In: Heip, C.H.R. et al. (Ed.) (1988). Collected papers on meiofauna dynamics and energy flow. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research: Yerseke. , more
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| Keywords |
Biological production > Secondary production
Copepoda [WoRMS]; Paronychocamptus nanus (Sars G.O., 1908) [WoRMS]
ANE, Netherlands, Oosterschelde [Marine Regions]
Brackish water |
| Abstract |
The secondary production of the harpacticoid copepod Paronychocamptus nanus (Sars, 1908) in a shallow, brackish-water pond was estimated during spring and summer 1980. The population was sampled every 5 d. Production of copepodites and adults, calculated by the size-frequency method, amounts to 1.91 g m-2 dry wt over the sampling period (March-November). Egg production is 1.23 g m-2; naupliar production is roughly 1.09 g m-2. The production efficiency (ratio of production to production plus respiration) of copepodites and adults is 0.37; for the total population it is 0.42.P:B of the population is 24.45 over the sampling period, or 3.2 per generation. |
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