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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH
卷 30, 期 8, 页码 923-935出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbn046
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Pseudocalanus are the numerically dominant calanoid species in coastal subarctic Pacific waters. We examined their juvenile growth rates, and explored their relationships to temperature, chlorophyll a and body size for Pseudocalanus spp. from 2002 to 2004 in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Generally, the monthly mean growth rates increased from 0.049 +/- 0.007(SE) day(-1) in March to 0.095 +/- 0.016 day(-1) in August, declining slightly to 0.074 +/- 0.009 day(-1) in October. Typically, growth rates at most stations were around 0.05 day(-1), with no consistent or significant pattern between stations. After standardization to 5 and 10 degrees C, the mean growth rates were 0.045 +/- 0.002 day(-1) and 0.075 +/- 0.004 day(-1) respectively, with growth rate decreasing with increasing development stage. Unlike other local calanoid copepod species, Pseudocalanus species tend to be more temperature-dependent than food-dependent, with composite statistical models describing at most 30% of the observed variability in growth rate. Interestingly, development time was comparable to other co-occurring calanoid copepods; however, growth rates of Pseudocalanus spp. were considerably lower. We demonstrate this with a new multi-species model that describes the growth rates of other egg-scattering copepods in this ecosystem, but to which Pseudocalanus does not fit. Thus, the egg-carrying Pseudocalanus species appear to employ a life history strategy optimized for slow growth at low chlorophyll that keeps individuals relatively small, and may therefore reduce visual predation upon them.
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