This study investigated feeding rates and selective feeding of the common copepod Acartia tonsa on mixtures of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Protoperidinium cf. divergens and the cooccurring red-tide dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra and predation effects of A. tonsa on the population growth of P cf. divergens during simulated red-tide and non-red-tide periods. Ingestion and clearance rates ...

Title of Dissertation: CRYPTIC DIVERSITY, ECOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND POPULATION GENETICS OF AN ESTUARINE COPEPOD, ACARTIA TONSA DANA 1849 (COPEPODA: CALANOIDA) Gang Chen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Matthew P. Hare Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell Univer...

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As dominant members of marine mesozooplankton communities, copepods play critical roles in oceanic food webs and biogeochemical cycling. Despite the ecological significance of copepods, little is known regarding the causes of copepod mortality, and up to 35% of total copepod mortality cannot be accounted for by predation alone. Viruses have been established as ecologically important infectious ...

In order to characterize the zooplankton community at the Vitória Bay estuarine system (Southeastern Brazil), samples were collected in 10 sampling stations during a three-year study (1998-2000), every three months. A total of 64 taxa were identified. Copepoda contributed with the highest species number (49) in the community, especially with Acartia lilljeborgi, Acartia tonsa, Paracalanus parvu...

Three strains of the chain-forming diatom Skeletonema marinoi, differing in their production of polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUA) and nutritional food components, were used in experiments on feeding, egg production, hatching success, pellet production, and behavior of three common planktonic copepods: Acartia tonsa, Pseudocalanus elongatus, and Temora longicornis. The three different diatom strai...

Effects of food on bacterial community composition associated with the copepod Acartia tonsa Dana Kam Tang*, Claudia Dziallas, Kristine Hutalle-Schmelzer and Hans-Peter Grossart Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA 23062-1346, USA Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany Biological Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, Manila 1015,...

In the Marseilles region (French Mediterranean coast), A. clausi is one of the most abundant copepod species of the Gulf of Fos while A. tonsa constitutes the almost exclusive copepod species of the Berre lagoon, a neighbouring semi-closed brackish area communicating with the gulf. As different ecophysiological capabilities to stand the various temperature, salinity and food conditions could ex...

The effect of foraging behavior on predation risk was studied by exposing the two small Calanoid copepods Acartia clausi and Acartia tonsa to 0 or 1 ppm (1,500 cells ml-l) of the diatom Thalassiosira weissfogii and to presence of the predator Pureuchaeta norvegica. In filtered water, predation rate was the same on the two species. In algal suspension, predation rate on A. clausi was half that i...

We describe a model predicting the effects of low environmental oxygen on vital rates (egg production, somatic growth, and mortality) of the coastal planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa. Hypoxic conditions can result in respiration rate being directly limited by oxygen availability. We hypothesized that A. tonsa egg production, somatic growth, and ingestion rates would all respond in a similar mann...