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Effects of salinity and food quality on the growth of sub-adult mysids of Tenagomysis spp.: a laboratory study

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In estuaries, the somatic growth of crustacean mysids may be influenced by spatio-temporal variation in salinity and food resources. We tested such a possibility in a laboratory experiment, where somatic growth of sub-adult mysids Tenagomysis chiltoni and Tenagomysis novaezealandiae was studied in intermediate salinities(10–20) with contrasting high or low (based on Carbon and Nitrogen richness) food qualities. Different salinity and/or food quality combinations interacted to produce contrasting growth trajectories between the two species. Growth of sub-adult T. chiltoni was more influenced by salinity, whereas the growth of T. novaezealandiae more strongly affected by food quality. Our results suggest that small environmental changes to salinity and food regimes may give rise to different growth trajectories among sub-adult mysids which may have a cascading influence on their life histories and patterns of coexistence with other species in small intermittently open/closed estuaries in temperate regions.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Nicky McHugh for assistance with the analysis of water samples, Ken Miller for art work, and the IRMS laboratory at Department of Chemistry, University of Otago for isotopic analysis of food samples. Thanks to Dr. Keith Probert (University of Otago), Dr. Knudsen Rune (University of Tromsø) for their comments on the manuscript, and Jolyn Chia and Makenzie Gallium for their assistance in field and laboratory work. Thanks to Department of Zoology, and University of Otago for infrastructure and funding support.

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Paul, S., Closs, G.P. Effects of salinity and food quality on the growth of sub-adult mysids of Tenagomysis spp.: a laboratory study. Aquat Ecol 48, 229–235 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-014-9478-z

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