Winter-spring feeding and metabolism of Arctic copepods : insights from faecal pellet production and respiration measurements in the southeastern Beaufort Sea

Faecal pellet production (FPP) and respiration rates of Calanus glacialis, C. hyperboreus and Metridia longa were measured under land-fast ice in the southeastern Beaufort Sea during the winter-spring transition (March-May 2004) prior to the phytoplankton spring bloom. Despite different overwinterin...

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Published in:Polar biology 2007-03, Vol.30 (4), p.427-436
Main Authors: SEUTHE, Lena, DARNIS, Gérald, RISER, Christian Wexels, WASSMANN, Paul, FORTIER, Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal and plant ecology
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Calanus glacialis
Crustacea
Fast ice
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Grazing
Ingestion
Invertebrates
Metridia longa
Overwintering
Particular ecosystems
Particulate organic matter
Phytoplankton
Plankton
Respiration
Spring
Synecology
Winter
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Summary:Faecal pellet production (FPP) and respiration rates of Calanus glacialis, C. hyperboreus and Metridia longa were measured under land-fast ice in the southeastern Beaufort Sea during the winter-spring transition (March-May 2004) prior to the phytoplankton spring bloom. Despite different overwintering and life cycle strategies and remaining low concentrations of suspended chlorophyll a and particulate organic matter, all species showed increasing FPP rates in spring. A corresponding increase in respiration was only observed in C. glacialis, while respiration remained constant in C. hyperboreus and M. longa. In C. glacialis and C. hyperboreus calculated ingestion covered respiratory expenditures. The constancy of the oil sac volume in M. longa suggests that the animals fed during winter-spring. Pre-bloom grazing as shown here seems to acclimate the copepod populations physiologically for the upcoming high feeding season, so that they are able to resume maximum grazing and reproduction as soon as the phytoplankton bloom is initiated.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0722-4060
1432-2056
DOI:10.1007/s00300-006-0199-1