Functional response of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus feeding in vitro on krill and copepods ...

• Main Authors: Höfer, Juan, Garcia-Herrera, Nur, Martis, Paula, Laudien, Jürgen, González Estay, Humberto, Richter, Claudio
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; Species; Number of prey; Prey; Prey, biomass as carbon; Ingestion rate of carbon; Daily ration of carbon biomass; Monitoring station; Alfred Wegener Institute; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.893159; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.893159

This dataset was generated in the frame of the co-operation between the Universidad Austral de Chile (https://www.uach.cl), the Huinay Scientific Field Station (http://www.huinay.cl) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (http://www.awi.de) in the frame of the project PACOC "Plankton- And cold-water COral ecology in Comau Fjord, Chile. The study was also embedded in activities of the Research Center Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems (IDEAL) (http://www.centroideal.cl/eng/). ... : Replicated incubations were performed to assess how many preys (copepods or krill) may be ingested by individuals of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus. Coral specimens were kept in a 500 mL Schott bottle, each. The bottles were filled without air headspace (790 mL of 20 µm-filtered seawater) before zooplankton was added in different abundances. The experimental period was three hours. ...