Temperature-dependent production of marine copepods: a global synthesis

ME Huntley, MDG Lopez - The American Naturalist, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Estimating the production of marine copepods depends on measuring two key variables:
biomass and growth rate. The major difficulty in estimating production of marine copepods …

Logarithmic transformation bias in allometry

RJ Smith - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
It has been known for some time (DJ Finney, J. Roy. Stat. Soc. Suppl. 7: 155–161, 1941) that
transformation of an arithmetic data set to logarithms results in biased estimates when …

Population regulation and role of mesozooplankton in shaping marine pelagic food webs

T Kiørboe - Hydrobiologia, 1997 - Springer
Copepods constitute the majority of the mesozooplankton in the oceans. By eating and
being eaten copepods have implications for the flow of matterand energy in the pelagic …

Copepods as live prey: a review of factors that influence the feeding success of marine fish larvae

EJ Chesney - Copepods in aquaculture, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The critical importance of fish larvae successfully capturing live prey during their first few
days of life has been a concept central to aquaculture production and fisheries recruitment …

Zooplankton communities of the Arctic's Canada Basin: the contribution by smaller taxa

RR Hopcroft, C Clarke, RJ Nelson, KA Raskoff - Polar Biology, 2005 - Springer
Zooplankton was sampled at ten stations in the Canada Basin during August 2002 using
both 53-and 236-μm mesh nets to examine the contribution by smaller and less studied …

Production of tropical copepods in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica: the importance of small species

RR Hopcroft, JC Roff, D Lombard - Marine Biology, 1998 - Springer
The copepod community observed during an 18-month period at the mouth of eutrophic
Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, was dominated by small species of Parvocalanus, Temora …

Diet of sardine Sardinops sagax in the southern Benguela upwelling ecosystem

CD Van der Lingen - South African Journal of Marine Science, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The diet of sardine Sardinops sagax in the southern Benguela was investigated by
microscopic examination of stomach contents. The relative dietary importance of prey size …

Annual biomass and production of the oceanic copepod community off Discovery Bay, Jamaica

MK Webber, JC Roff - Marine Biology, 1995 - Springer
Monthly samples were collected in oceanic waters off Discovery Bay, Jamaica, in 60-and
200-m vertical hauls, using 200-and 64-μm mesh plankton nets, from June 1989 to July …

Size paradigms in copepod communities: a re-examination

RR Hopcroft, JC Roff, FP Chavez - Hydrobiologia, 2001 - Springer
A longstanding view in zooplankton research has been that large copepods are the
important members of most communities. It has also been thought that warm water …

Trophic impact and prey selection by crustacean zooplankton on the microbial communities of an oligotrophic coastal area (NW Mediterranean Sea)

E Broglio, E Saiz, A Calbet, I Trepat… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2004 - int-res.com
Selection for ciliates in the presence of phytoplankton has been previously shown for some
species of copepods. However, the factors determining preference for this heterotrophic prey …