Dark-Season Survival Strategies of Coastal Zone Zooplankton in the Canadian Arctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Conover, Robert J., Siferd, Timothy D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
• Subjects: Algae; Animal food; Animal growth; Animal reproduction; Bioclimatology; Chlorophyll; Cold adaptation; Cold physiology; Copepoda; Lipids; Marine ecology; Metabolism; Phytoplankton; Predation; Primary production (Biology); Sea ice ecology; Sedimentation; Winter ecology; Zooplankton; Starvation; Enzymes; Antarctic waters; Barrow Strait; Nunavut; Northwest Passage; Polar regions; Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*; Arctique*; banquise; Calanus hyperboreus; ice algae; Northwest passage; Sea ice; Copepods
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64412

For herbivorous zooplankton, surviving the arctic winter requires that sufficient energy be stored in summer to enable ten months or more of possible starvation. Energy and materials for reproduction may also be totally derived from stored lipid and bodily protein. The predominant storage products a...