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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 9 | PAGES 1275-1288 | 1997
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Predation and respiration by the small cyclopoid copepod Oithona similisr: How important is feeding on ciliates and heterotrophic flagellates?
Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
1To whom correspondence should be addressed at: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Received on December 2, 1996; accepted on May 9, 1997 Feeding on natural plankton populations and respiration of the small cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis were measured during the warm season in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA. Although O.similis did not significantly ingest small autotrophic and heterotrophic flagellates (2–8 µn), this copepod actively fed on >10 µm particles, including autotrophic/heterotrophic (dino)flagel-lates and ciliates, with clearance rates of 0.03–0.38 ml animal–1 h–1. The clearance rates increased with the prey size. O.similis also fed on copepod nauplii (mainly composed of the N1 stage of Acartia tonsa with a clearance rate of 0.16 ml animal–1 h–1. Daily carbon ration from the combination of these food items averaged 148 ng C animal–1 day–1 (41% of body C day–1), with ciliates and heterotrophic dino-flagellates being the main food source ({small tilde}69% of total carbon ration). Respiration rates were 020–0.23 µl O2 animal–1 day–1. Assuming a respiratory quotient of 0.8 and digestion efficiency of 0.7, the carbon requirement for respiration was calculated to be 125–143 ng C animal–1 day–1, close to the daily carbon ration estimated above. We conclude that predation on ciliates and heterotrophic dinoflagellates was important for O.similis to sustain its population in our study area during the warm season.
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