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| author | Schultes, Sabine Verity, Peter Bathmann, Ulrich |
| author_facet | Schultes, Sabine Verity, Peter Bathmann, Ulrich |
| collection | Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales |
| contents | Feeding activity, selective grazing and the potential grazing impact of two dominant grazers of the Polar Frontal Zone, Calanus simillimus and Rhincalanus gigas, and of copepods < 2 mm were investigated with incubation experiments in the course of an iron fertilized diatom bloom in November 2000. All grazers were already actively feeding in the low chlorophyll waters prior to the onset of the bloom. C. simillimus maintained constant clearance rates and fed predominantly on diatoms. R. gigas and the small copepods strongly increased clearance and ingestion of diatoms in response to their enhanced availability. All grazers preyed on microzooplankton, most steadily on ciliates, confirming the view that pure herbivory appears to be the exception rather than the rule in copepod feeding. The grazers exhibited differences in feeding behavior based on selectivity indices. C. simillimus and R. gigas showed prey switching from dinoflagellates to diatoms in response to the phytoplankton bloom. All grazers most efficiently grazed on large diatoms leading to differences in daily losses for large and small species, e.g. Corethron sp. or Thalassionema nitzschioides. Species-specific diatom mortality rates due to grazing suggest that the high feeding activity of C. simillimus prior to and during the bloom played a role in shaping diatom population dynamics |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2006 |
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| spellingShingle | Ingestion and clearance rates of Copepods Schultes, Sabine Verity, Peter Bathmann, Ulrich ANT-XVIII/2; BONGO; Bongo net; EisenEx; European Iron Enrichment Experiment in the Southern Ocean; Polarstern; PS58/006-6; PS58/007-3; PS58/007-4; PS58/009-5; PS58/011-5; PS58/014-1; PS58/042-3; PS58/042-4; PS58/043-3; PS58/045-8; PS58/046-10; PS58/049-7; PS58/061-4; PS58/088-5; PS58/089-1; PS58/107-1; PS58/108-6; PS58 EISENEX; South Atlantic Ocean Feeding activity, selective grazing and the potential grazing impact of two dominant grazers of the Polar Frontal Zone, Calanus simillimus and Rhincalanus gigas, and of copepods < 2 mm were investigated with incubation experiments in the course of an iron fertilized diatom bloom in November 2000. All grazers were already actively feeding in the low chlorophyll waters prior to the onset of the bloom. C. simillimus maintained constant clearance rates and fed predominantly on diatoms. R. gigas and the small copepods strongly increased clearance and ingestion of diatoms in response to their enhanced availability. All grazers preyed on microzooplankton, most steadily on ciliates, confirming the view that pure herbivory appears to be the exception rather than the rule in copepod feeding. The grazers exhibited differences in feeding behavior based on selectivity indices. C. simillimus and R. gigas showed prey switching from dinoflagellates to diatoms in response to the phytoplankton bloom. All grazers most efficiently grazed on large diatoms leading to differences in daily losses for large and small species, e.g. Corethron sp. or Thalassionema nitzschioides. Species-specific diatom mortality rates due to grazing suggest that the high feeding activity of C. simillimus prior to and during the bloom played a role in shaping diatom population dynamics |
| title | Ingestion and clearance rates of Copepods |
| topic | ANT-XVIII/2; BONGO; Bongo net; EisenEx; European Iron Enrichment Experiment in the Southern Ocean; Polarstern; PS58/006-6; PS58/007-3; PS58/007-4; PS58/009-5; PS58/011-5; PS58/014-1; PS58/042-3; PS58/042-4; PS58/043-3; PS58/045-8; PS58/046-10; PS58/049-7; PS58/061-4; PS58/088-5; PS58/089-1; PS58/107-1; PS58/108-6; PS58 EISENEX; South Atlantic Ocean |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.738250 |