Dietary Change during Development in the Freshwater Calanoid Copepod Epischura lacustris Forbes

dc.contributor.author	Chow-Fraser P
dc.contributor.author	Wong CK
dc.contributor.department	Biology
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-11T20:25:45Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-11T20:25:45Z
dc.date.issued	1986-05-01
dc.date.updated	2025-01-11T20:25:43Z
dc.description.abstract	There was a transition from an exclusively herbivorous diet in early copepodid stages to an omnivorous diet in adults. C2 and C3 were incapable of ingesting Bosmina (0.25-0.35mm), but from C4 to C6, ingestion rate of Bosmina increased with developmental stage. The order of prey selection for adult Epischura was Bosmina over Diaptomus and Cyclops. Grazing rate on small algae (per millem) increased with developmental stage. Zooplankton remains were only found in the guts of stages older than C2; cladocerans and crustacean eggs were the most common zooplankton food. Algae with longest linear dimensions >10mu m were common in the guts of all developmental stages of Epischura.-from Authors
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1139/f86-116
dc.identifier.issn	0706-652X
dc.identifier.issn	1205-7533
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/30827
dc.publisher	Canadian Science Publishing
dc.subject	31 Biological Sciences
dc.subject	3103 Ecology
dc.subject	Nutrition
dc.title	Dietary Change during Development in the Freshwater Calanoid Copepod Epischura lacustris Forbes
dc.type	Article

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