whlch time it consumes planktonic foods; during Low-water (LW), feeding is greatly reduced. These feeding patterns are related to its burrow-dwehng and to its ...
Vol. 33: 139-146. 1986
MARINE ECOLOGY - PROGRESS SERIES Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.
Published October 15
Water-cover influences on diatom ingestion rates by meiobenthic copepods Alan W. Decho Department of Zoology and Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
ABSTRACT: Laboratory experiments on meiobenthic copepods using 14C-diatoms were conducted to investigate whether: (1) feeding rates or (2) food sources (planktonically-suspended foods or benthic sebment-associated foods) vary in response to the presence or absence of water-cover (i.e. simulated High-water vs Low-water conditions). Three &atom-feeding harpacticoids were examined. Scottolana canadensis feeds at significantly higher rates ( 2 x ) during f i g h - w a t e r (HW) conditions (P
