Carbon requirements of a population of the estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1975 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Marine Biology, volume 31, pages 235-247 (issn: 0025-3162, eissn: 1432-1793,

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Authors: D. R. Heinle; D. A. Flemer;

doi: 10.1007/bf00387152

Carbon requirements of a population of the estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis

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The production of algae in the Patuxent River estuary (Maryland, USA) was much less than the carbon requirements of a population of the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis. Detrital carbon was present in quantities that suggest turnover times of 8 to 83 days for this pool, assuming that all algal production was consumed by E. affinis. We hypothesize that E. affinis must consume detritus to meet a part of its requirements for energy.

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