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Estimating secondary production for the brackish Westerschelde copepod population Eurystemora affinis (Poppe) combining experimental data and field observations
Escaravage, V.; Soetaert, K. (1993). Estimating secondary production for the brackish Westerschelde copepod population Eurystemora affinis (Poppe) combining experimental data and field observations. Cah. Biol. Mar. 34(2): 201-214
In: Cahiers de Biologie Marine. Station Biologique de Roscoff: Paris. ISSN 0007-9723; e-ISSN 2262-3094
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Keyword
    Brackish water

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  • Escaravage, V.
  • Soetaert, K.

Abstract
    Eurytemora affinis (Poppe) (Copepoda : Calanoida) development is studied through cultures supplied with naturally occurring particulate matter (Western Schelde estuary) and kept at six constant temperatures in the range 2-20-degrees-C. At 2-degrees-C the copepods do not reach the copepodite stages and at 5-degrees-C, do not develop further than the fourth copepodite stage. A field production estimate is given combining the biomass present in the field and weight specific growth rates derived from the culture experiment. The P/B obtained are very close with those measured for the same species in other estuaries.

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