Grazing experiments and production estimation based on life-history analysis of Neocalanus
copepods (N. cristatus, N. plumchrus and N. flemingeri) were carried out in the Oyashio …

Jefferson T. Turner (2004) The importance of small planktonic copepods and their roles in
pelagic marine food webs. Zoological Studies 43 (2): 255-266. Small planktonic marine …

Chitin is widely distributed in nature and its annual production is thought to be huge.
However, the chitin production has been rarely estimated in aquatic ecosystems, despite the …

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 …

Biomass of ciliates, bacteria and mesozooplankton, as well as biomass estimates of
phytoplankton from chlorophyll a values, were studied in the mixed layer of the northern …

The dependency of in situ weight-specific fecundity of adult females (as egg production) and
growth of juveniles (as somatic production) upon individual body weight in marine …

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 …

Copepod nauplii may be an important intermediary between the'microbial'and'classical'
pelagic marine food webs. In studies of planktonic food webs, along a trophic gradient from …

Nine genera of neritic tropical copepods were collected near Lime Cay, Jamaica, between
July 1985 and January 1987. Length-weight regressions were derived for each genus (R 2 …

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 …