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Daily egg production rate of the planktonic calanoid copepod Acartia lilljeborgi Giesbrecht in the Cananéia Lagoon estuarine system, São Paulo, Brazil

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Seasonal variation in daily egg production rate of the planktonic calanoid copepod Acartia lilljeborgi Giesbrecht in relation to temperature, salinity and chlorophyll a concentration was studied in the Cananéia Lagoon estuarine system, from March 1995 to January 1996. Recently captured A. lilljeborgi adult females were individually incubated in bottles filled with surface water screened through a 40-μm mesh, containing a natural assemblage of phytoplankton in the laboratory, at temperatures corresponding to ambient. Daily egg production rate ranged from 13.8±3.5 to 66.8± 15.1 eggs female−1 d−1 (mean ± 95% CL). The mean and maximum rates of daily egg production increased with temperature from 19.5 to 25.2 °C but then decreased with further increase in temperature at 28.4 through 29.1 °C, attaining the highest rates at approximately annual mean ambient water temperature (ca. 24–25 °C). The egg production rates increased linearly with chlorophyll a <40 μm fraction. Hatching success varied from 68.6 to 91.9%. Cannibalism varied from 1.4±0.7 to 7.1±3.3 nauplii female−1 d−1 (mean ± 95% CL). These results suggest that water temperature and phytoplankton concentration are important factors affecting the egg production rate of A. lilljeborgi in the Cananéia Lagoon estuarine.

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Ara, K. Daily egg production rate of the planktonic calanoid copepod Acartia lilljeborgi Giesbrecht in the Cananéia Lagoon estuarine system, São Paulo, Brazil. Hydrobiologia 445, 205–215 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017573917281

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