The following supplement accompanies the article
Annual routines and life history of the amphipod Onisimus litoralis: seasonal growth, body composition and energy budget Henrik Nygård1,2,*, Jago Wallenschus1, Lionel Camus1,3, Øystein Varpe1,4, Jørgen Berge1,3 1
The University Centre in Svalbard, 9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
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Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway 3
Akvaplan-niva AS, Polar Environmental Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway 4
Norwegian Polar Institute, 9296 Tromsø, Norway *Email:
[email protected]
Marine Ecology Progress Series 417:115–126 (2010)
Supplement. Additional biometric data for Onisimus litoralis
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Fig. S1. Onisimus litoralis. Relative length-frequency distribution through the year-long sampling campaign. Note the differing scale on the y-axis in September and November
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Fig. S2. Onisimus litoralis. (a) Wet weight and (b) dry weight of the 2 cohorts. The line shows the median value. The box represents the second and third quartile of observations, while the whiskers include the full range of observations. The circle shows the mean value
