Body size and egg production in the marine copepod Acartia hudsonica during a winter‐spring diatom bloom in Narragansett Bay

EG Durbin, AG Durbin… - Limnology and …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal changes in size and egg production in the copepod Acartia hudsonica were
investigated during the 1984 winter–spring bloom in Narragansett. Bay. Possible food …

Seasonal changes in size frequency distribution and estimated age in the marine copepod Acartia hudsonica during a winter‐spring diatom bloom in Narragansett …

AG Durbin, EG Durbin - Limnology and Oceanography, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal changes in length frequency and estimated age distributions indicated that Acartia
hudsonica adult females are dominated by successive age groups during the winter–spring …

Egg production of the copepodAcartia tonsa in Florida Bay during summer. 1. The roles of food environment and diet

GS Kleppel, CA Burkart, C Tomas - Estuaries, 1998 - Springer
The diet and egg production rate of Acartia tonsa were measured during the thermally stable
period between June and October 1995 at four locations in inner and outer Florida Bay. We …

Factors controlling seasonal succession of the copepods Acartia hudsonica and A. tonsa in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: temperature and resting egg production

BK Sullivan, LT McManus - 1986 - int-res.com
We present evidence to show that the timing of the seasonal appearance and
disappearance of Acartia hudsonica, the dominant winter-spring copepod in Narragansett …

Food limitation of production by adult Acartia tonsa in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island 1

EG Durbin, AG Durbin, TJ S‐mayda… - Limnology and …, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Egg production, dry weight, cephalothorax length, and condition factor were measured for
adult Acartia tonsa females collected twice weekly from Narragansett Bay, RI, during …

Egg production by the calanoid copepod Arcartia tonsa in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay: the importance of food resources and temperature

JR White, MR Roman - Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 1992 - int-res.com
Egg production of Acartia tonsa females was measured simultaneously with grazing and
other b~ ological and physical parameters in the mesohaline portlon of Chesapeake Bay …

Chronic food limitation of egg production in populations of copepods of the genusAcartia in the San Francisco estuary

WJ Kimmerer, N Ferm, MH Nicolini, C Peñalva - Estuaries, 2005 - Springer
Egg production of planktonic copepods, is commonly measured as a proxy for secondary
production in population dynamics studies and for quantifying food limitation. Although …

Diel changes in the egg production rate of Acartia tonsa (Copepoda, Calanoida) and related environmental factors in two estuaries

DE Stearns, PA Tester, RL Walker - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1989 - JSTOR
Two 48 h field experiments were completed in different USA east coast estuaries to study
short-interval changes in egg production by the coastal copepod Acartia tonsa Dana. In April …

Diet and egg production of the copepod Acartia tonsa in Florida Bay. II. Role of the nutritional environment

GS Kleppel, SE Hazzard - Marine Biology, 2000 - Springer
As part of an ongoing study of changes in the trophic pathways of Florida Bay's pelagic
ecosystem, the nutritional environment (seston protein, lipid and carbohydrate levels), diet …

Seasonal and fine-scale spatial variations in egg production and triacylglycerol content of the copepod Acartia tonsa in a river-dominated estuary and its coastal …

GB McManus, CA Foster - Journal of plankton research, 1998 - academic.oup.com
We measured egg production rates of the estuarine calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa in
Mobile Bay, an estuary in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Two stations were sampled …