Carbon requirements of a population of the estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis |
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| Authors: | D R Heinle D A Flemer |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons, Maryland, USA
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| Abstract: | 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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