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Comparison of the Feeding Behaviour of Calanus and Pseudocalanus in two Experimentally Manipulated Enclosed Ecosystems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Roger P. Harris
Roger P. Harris
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The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
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INTRODUCTION

Implicit in some recent models of the dynamics of planktonic systems, for example that of Steele & Frost (1977) is the concept that filter-feeding copepods may be scaled by size when considering feeding in relation to the size composition of their paniculate food. For a particular organism ingestion of phytoplankton has been considered to be a function of its own weight and the size composition of the phytoplankton available to it. Such scaling has been assumed to occur both in an intra- and interspecific sense, with model development involving a ‘large’ copepod {Calanus) able to feed and grow more efficiently on ‘large’ cells (diatoms) and a ‘small’ copepod {Pseudocalanus) better adapted to feed on ‘small’ cells (flagellates). However, although the general relationship between growth and metabolic rate and body size is widely accepted (Banse, 1976; Fenchel, 1974) this relationship between dietary particle-size composition and size of organism has remained a working hypothesis with little experimental support..

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , February 1982 , pp. 71 - 91
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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