… proportions of organic and inorganic nitrogen excreted by A.tonsa … copepods. These findings
are consistent with other field studies suggesting that direct nitrogen excretion by copepods …

… /C = 0.12), and detritus derived from the saltmarsh grass, Spartina alterniflora, (N/C = 0.04).
Total nitrogen excreted ranged from 0.06 to 0.18 μg N copepod − 1 d − 1 whereas nitrogen …

… The ratios of respiration to excretion and of phosphorus to nitrogen excretion (usually … pods
(calanoids) may be used to predict relative pellet retention or vertical flux of calanoid faecal …

… zooplankton species is high, N excretion is lower. Once the fat reserves are used up,
protein is then more heavily utilized, with a concomitant increase in N excretion. Anderson (1992) …

… Copepods are assumed to be ammoniotelic and the losses … in terms of nitrogen from the
ammoniacal excretion. Carbon … Respiration and nitrogen excretion of zooplankton. IV. The …

… Values of δ 15 N in the copepods’ tissues did not increase during starvation, despite significant
losses of bulk nitrogen. This supports the suggestion that dissimilatory protein pathways …

… Measurements of nitrogen excreted by developmental … nitrogen excreted by adults. Some
measurements of phosphorus excretion indicated a nitrogen: phosphorus ratio in excretory …

… (NH 4 + ), and urea from Acartia tonsa calanoid copepods feeding on the diatom Thalassiosira
weissflogii. Excretion and sloppy feeding were the dominant modes of DOC production (…

… Whether similar behaviour has been previously observed for other calanoid copepods (lipidic
type) needs to be considered. In Calanus hyperboreus starved for 80 days, Conover (1964…

… It therefore seemed probable that nitrogen excretion by … to examine nitrogen excretion, oxygen
consumption and O:N ratios for … excretion rates and lower O:N ratios for smaller copepods …