Egg hatching times of Antarctic copepods
Egg hatching times were determined at a range of temperatures for four species of commonly occurring Antarctic copepods. At a given temperature the eggs of Rhincalanus gigas took longest to hatch, up to 9 days at 0°C, followed by those of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Calanus simillimus....
| Published in: | Polar Biology |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Springer-Verlag
1998
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505026/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050225 |
| Summary: | Egg hatching times were determined at a range of temperatures for four species of commonly occurring Antarctic copepods. At a given temperature the eggs of Rhincalanus gigas took longest to hatch, up to 9 days at 0°C, followed by those of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Calanus simillimus. A Bělehrádeks temperature function with the parameter b fixed at −2.05 accounted for >95% of the variance for each species. There was an approximate doubling in hatching times between 5°C and 0°C for R. gigas and for the other species the increase in embryonic duration was 40–50% at the lower temperature. |
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