Egg hatching times of Antarctic copepods

Ward, Peter; Shreeve, Rachael. 1998 Egg hatching times of Antarctic copepods. Polar Biology, 19 (2). 142-144. 10.1007/s003000050225

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Abstract/Summary

Egg hatching times were determined at a range of temperatures for four species of commonly occurring Antarctic copepods. At a given temperature the eggs of Rhincalanus gigas took longest to hatch, up to 9 days at 0°C, followed by those of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Calanus simillimus. A Bělehrádeks temperature function with the parameter b fixed at −2.05 accounted for >95% of the variance for each species. There was an approximate doubling in hatching times between 5°C and 0°C for R. gigas and for the other species the increase in embryonic duration was 40–50% at the lower temperature.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1007/s003000050225
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
ISSN:	0722-4060
Date made live:	26 Feb 2014 11:22 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505026

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1007/s003000050225

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme

ISSN:

0722-4060

Date made live:

26 Feb 2014 11:22 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505026