Retarded growth of cladoceran zooplankton in the presence of a copepod predator

Gliwicz, Z. M.

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Journal Article

Retarded growth of cladoceran zooplankton in the presence of a copepod predator

MPS-Authors

/persons/resource/persons56691

Gliwicz, Z. M.
Department Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Limnology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society;

External Resource

No external resources are shared

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Gliwicz, Z. M. (1994). Retarded growth of cladoceran zooplankton in the presence of a copepod predator. Oecologia, 97(4), 458-461.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-E389-6

Abstract

Various instars of four different cladoceran species representing a wide spectrum of body size were grown at high food availability in the presence and in the absence of natural densities of an invertebrate predator, a cyclopoid copepod Acanthocyclops robustus (G.O. Sars). Daily weight increments calculated from individual weights at the end and at the beginning of each 1, 2 or 4 day experiment, showed that individual growth was more or less drastically retarded in the presence of the predator as well as when exposed to water in which the predator had been feeding. The data also showed that the effect of this invertebrate predator was more pronounced in small prey instars and small prey species that were more vulnerable to predation than large prey.