SEASONAL STUDY OF GRAZING BY METAZOAN ZOOPLANKTON IN THE MESOHALINE CHESAPEAKE BAY

被引：111

作者：

WHITE, JR ^{[1
]}

ROMAN, MR ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV MARYLAND SYST, CTR ENVIRONM & ESTUARINE STUDIES, HORN POINT ENVIRONM LAB, CAMBRIDGE, MD 21613 USA

来源：

MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES | 1992年 / 86卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.3354/meps086251

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Grazing of phytoplankton by the metazoan zooplankton community was measured on 5 dates from March to August 1987, and 4 dates from March to October 1988 at a single Station in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay, USA. In situ grazing measurements were made on several taxa including copepod nauplii and meroplanktonic larvae. Zooplankton grazing was dominated by Acartia species copepods in March and August, polychaete larvae in May, and the cyclopoid copepod Oithona colcarva in June 1987 and October 1988. Copepod nauplii were nearly always important grazers because of their relatively high biomass and weight-specific ingestion rates. The amount of daily phytoplankton production removed by zooplankton in 1988 varied between 12 and 103 %, with March > August > October > May.

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页码：251 / 261

页数：11

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