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The relationship between temperature and metabolism was studied in Artic copepods with regard to the concept of metabolic cold adaptation of polar poikilotherms. Temperature tolerance and respiration rates of the dominant copepods Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus), C. glacialis (Jaschnov), C. hyperboreus (Krøyer) and Metridia longa (Lubbeck), collected in Fram Strait, Greenland Sea, in July 1983, were studied at different temperatures. Temperature tolerance in the boreal C. finmarchicus was slightly higher than in the three Arctic species. Respiration rates at lower temperatures followed the Arrhenius equation in all species, with values for μ (temperature characteristics) between 11.05 and 22.95, corresponding to a Q10 between 2.05 and 4.5. This increase in metabolic rate with rising temperature was not related to an increase of swimming activity, as was shown by videoanalysis. “Activity” was determined as average swimming speed and as frequency of certain locomotor patterns. Average swimming speed remained unchanged at all temperatures and was ca 1 cm s-1 for all species, when only periods of active swimming were considered. The time spent with active swimming did not change with temperature in M. longa and C. finmarchicus, but decreased in c. glacialis. In C. hyperboreus it increased at 5°C and decreased again at higher temperatures. It is suggested that the increase in oxygen consumption is fully accounted for by the basal metabolism.
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Hirche, HJ. Temperature and plankton. Mar. Biol. 94, 347–356 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428240
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