Regional and temporal variation of Oithona spp. biomass, stage structure and productivity in the Irminger Sea, North Atlantic

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1051-1070

  Castellani, C ^a,b,d   Irigoien, X ^c   Harris, R P ^b   Holliday, N P ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CRUSTACEAN; DINOFLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; LITERATURE REVIEW; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECRUITMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRMINGER SEA;

ALGAE; CALANUS; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; DINOPHYCEAE; OITHONA; OITHONA SIMILIS;

EID: 36448977968     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbm079     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Atkinson, A. (1996) Subantarctic copepods in an oceanic, low chlorophyll environment: ciliate predation, food selectivity and impact on prey populations. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 130, 85-96.
2. Atkinson, A. (1998) Life cycle strategies of epipelagic copepods in the Southern Ocean. J. Mar. Syst., 15, 289-311.
3. Bainbridge, V. and Corlett, J. (1968) The zooplankton of the NORWESTLANT surveys. ICNAF Spec. Publ., 7, 101-122.
4. Båmstedt, U., Gifford, D., Atkinson, A. et al. (2002) Zooplankton feeding. In Harris, R. P., Wiebe, P., Lenz, J., Skjoldal, H. R. et al. (eds), ICES Zooplankton Methodology Manual. Academic Press, London, pp. 297-399.
5. Basedow, S. L., Eiane, K., Tverberg, V. et al. (2004) Advection of zooplankton in an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard). Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 60, 113-124.
6. Beaugrand, G., Ibañez, F., Lindley, J. A. et al. (2002) Diversity of calanoid copepods in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas: species associations and biogeography. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 232, 179-195.
7. Berggreen, U. C., Hansen, B. and Kiørboe, T. (1988) Food size spectra, ingestion and growth of the copepod Acartia tonsa during development: implications for determination of copepod production. Mar. Biol., 99, 341-352.
8. Breteler, W. C. M. and Gonzalez, S. R. (1988) Influence of temperature and food concentration on body size, weight and lipid content of two calanoid copepod species. Hydrobiologia, 167/168, 201-210.
9. Bunker, A. J. and Hirst, A. G. (2004) Fecundity of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns in relation to chlorophyll a, temperature and body weight. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 279, 161-181.
10. Burkill, P. H., Edwards, E. S., John, A. W. G. et al. (1993) Microzooplankton and their herbivorous activity in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. II, 40, 479-493.
11. Carlotti, F. and Slagstad, D. (1997) Population dynamics model of interacting copepods species coupled with a 1-D model of phytoplankton dynamics in the Greenland Sea gyre. Environ. Model. Assess., 2, 29-36.
12. Castellani, C. and Altunbaş, Y. (2006) Factors controlling the temporal dynamics of egg production of the copepod Temora longicornis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 308, 143-153.
13. Castellani, C., Irigoien, X., Harris, R. P. et al. (2005a) Feeding and egg production of Oithona similis in the North Atlantic. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 288, 173-182.
14. Castellani, C., Robinson, C., Smith, T. et al. (2005b) Do temperature changes affect the respiration rate of Oithona similis? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 285, 129-135.
15. Deevey, G. B. (1960) Relative effects of temperature and food on seasonal variations in length of marine copepods in some eastern American and western European waters. Bull. Bingham Ocean. COB., 17, 55-86.
16. Dunn, J., Hall, C. D., Heath, M. R. et al. (1993) ARIES: a system for concurrent physical, biological and chemical sampling at sea. Deep-Sea Res. I, 40, 867-878.
17. Eaton, J. M. (1971) Studies on the feeding and reproductive biology of the marine cyclopoid Claus. PhD Thesis. Dalhouise University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
18. Eiane, K. and Ohman, M. D. (2004) Stage-specific mortality of Calanus finmarchicus, Pseudocalanus elongatus and Oithona similis on Fladen Ground, North Sea, during a spring bloom. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 268, 183-193.
19. Gibbons, S. G. and Ogilvie, H. S. (1933) The develpoment stages of Oithona helgolandica and Oithona spinirostris, with a note on the occurence of body spines in cyclopoid nauplii. J. Mar. Biolog. Assoc. U.K., 18, 529-550.
20. Gislason, A. (2003) Life-cycle strategies and seasonal migrations of oceanic copepods in the Irminger Sea. Hydrobiologia, 503, 195-209.
21. Gislason, A. (2005) Seasonal and spatial variability in egg production and biomass of Calanus finmarchicus around Iceland. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 286, 177-192.
22. Gonzalez, H. E. and Smetacek, V. (1994) The possible role of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona in retarding vertical flux of zooplankton faecal material. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 113, 233-246.
23. Hansen, F. C., Mollmann, C., Schutz, U. et al. (2004) Spatio-temporal distribution of Oithona similis in the Bornholm Basin (Central Baltic Sea). J. Plankton Res., 26, 659-668.
24. Head, E. and Sameoto, D. (2005) Interdecadal variability in zooplankton and phytoplankton abundance on the Newfoundland and Scotian shelves. GLOBEC Symposium on Climate Variability and Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems, 16th-20th May 2005, Victoria, Canada.
25. Hirst, A. G. and Bunker, A. J. (2003) Growth of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns in relation to chlorophyll a, temperature, and body weight. Limnol. Oceanogr., 48, 1988-2010.
26. Hirst, A. G. and Kiørboe, T. (2002) Mortality of marine planktonic copepods: global rates and patterns. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 230, 195-209.
27. Holliday, N. P., Waniek, J. J., Davidson, R. et al. (2006) Large scale physical controls on phytoplankton growth in the Irminger Sea. Part I. Hydrographic zones, mixing and stratification. J. Mar. Syst., 59, 173-289.
28. Hopkins, T. L. and Torres, J. J. (1989) Midwater food web in the vicinity of a marginal ice zone in the western Weddel Sea. Deep-Sea Res. II, 36, 543-560.
29. Irigoien, X., Titelman, J., Harris, R. P. et al. (2003) Feeding of Calanus finmarchicus nauplii in the Irminger Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 262, 193-200.
30. Kane, J. (1984) The feeding habits of co-occurring cod and haddock larvae from George Bank. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 16, 9-20.
31. Kiørboe, T. (2006) Sex, sex-ratios, and the dynamics of pelagic copepod populations. Oecologia, 148, 40-50.
32. Kiørboe, T., Mohlenberg, F. and Hamburger, K. (1985) Bioenergetics of the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa: relation between feeding, egg production and respiration and composition of specific dynamic action. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 26, 85-97.
33. Lessard, E. J. and Swift, E. (1986) Dinoflagellates from the North Atlantic classified as phototrophic or heterotrophic by epifluorescence microscopy. J. Plankton Res., 8, 1209-1215.
34. Metz, C. and Schnack-Schiel, S. B. (1995) Observations on carnivorous feeding in Antarctic calanoid copepods. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 129, 71-75.
35. Nakamura, Y. and Turner, J. T. (1997) Predation and respiration by the small cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis: how important is feeding on ciliates and heterotrophic flagellates? J. Plankton Res., 19, 1275-1288.
36. Nielsen, T. G. and Kiørboe, T. (1994) Regulation of zooplankton biomass and production in a temperate coastal ecosystem: ciliates. Limnol. Oceanogr., 39, 508-519.
37. Nielsen, T. G. and Sabatini, M. (1996) Role of cyclopoid copepods Oithona spp. in North Sea plankton communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 139, 79-93.
38. Nielsen, T. G., Møller, E. F., Satapoomin, S. et al. (2002) Egg hatching rate of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in Arctic and temperate waters. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 236, 301-306.
39. Nishikawa, J., Tsuda, A., Ishigaki, T. et al. (1995) Distribution of euphausiids in the Kuroshio Front and warm water tongue with special reference to the surface aggregation of Euphausia pacifica. J. Plankton Res., 17, 611-629.
40. Omori, M. and Ikeda, T. (1984) Methods in Marine Zooplankton Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, 332 pp.
41. Paffenhöfer, G.-A. (1993) On the ecology of marine cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda). J. Plankton Res., 15, 37-55.
42. Pagès, F., González, H. E. and González, S. R. (1996) Diet of the gelatinous zooplankton in Hardangerfjord (Norway) and potential predatory impact by Aglantha digitale (Trachymedusae). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 139, 69-77.
43. Pollard, R. T., Read, J. F., Holliday, N. P. et al. (2004) Water masses and circulation pathways through the Iceland Basin during Vivaldi 1996. J. Geophys. Res., 109, (C4) doi: 10.1029/2003JC00267.
44. Putt, M. and Stoecker, D. K. (1989) An experimentally determined carbon: volume ratio for marine "oligotrichous" ciliates from estuarine and coastal waters. Limnol. Oceanogr., 34, 1097-1103.
45. Runge, J. A. (1984) Egg production of the marine planktonic copepod Calanus pacificus Brodsky: laboratory observations. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 74, 53-66.
46. Ruppert, E. E. and Barnes, R. D. (1994) Invertebrate Zoology, 6th edn. Saunders College Publishing, 928 pp.
47. Sabatini, M. and Kiørboe, T. (1994) Egg production, growth and development of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis. J. Plankton Res., 16, 1329-1351.
48. Sameoto, D. D., Wiebe, P. H., Runge, J. et al. (2000) Collecting zooplankton. In Harris, R. P., Wiebe, P. H., Lenz, J., Skjoldal, H. R. et al. (eds), ICES Zooplankton Methodology Manual. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
49. Sanders, R. and Jickells, T. (2000) Total organic nutrients in Drake Passage. Deep-Sea Res. I., 47, 997-1014.
50. Strathmann, R. R. (1967) Estimating the organic carbon content of phytoplankton from cell volume or plasma volume. Limnol. Oceanog., 12, 411-418.
51. Titelman, J. and Fiksen, O. (2004) Ontogenetic vertical distribution patterns in small copepods: field observations and model predictions. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 284, 49-63.
52. Townsend, C. R., Begon, M. and Harper, J. L. (2004) Essentials of Ecology, 2nd edn. Blackwell Publishing, 530 pp.
53. Ussing, H. H. (1938) The biology of some important plankton animal in the fjord of East Greenland. Medd. Grønland., 100, 108.
54. Utermöhl, H. (1958) Zur Vervollkommung der quantitativen Phytoplankton Methodik. Mitt. Int. Ver. Theor. Angew. Limnol., 9, 1-38.
55. Uye, S.-I. and Sano, K. (1998) Seasonal variations in biomass, growth rate and production rate of the small cyclopoid copepod Oithona davisae in a temperate eutrophic inlet. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 163, 37-44.
56. Waniek, J. J., Holliday, N. P., Davidson, R. et al. (2005) Freshwater control of onset and species composition of Greenland shelf spring bloom. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 288, 45-47.
57. Warren, G. J., Evans, M. S., Jude, D. J. et al. (1986) Seasonal variations in copepod size: effects of temperature, food abundance, and vertebrate predation. J. Plankton Res., 8, 841-853.
58. White, J. R. and Roman, M. R. (1992) Egg production by the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay: the importance of food resources and temperature. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 86, 239-249.
59. Yebra, L., Harris, R. P., Davidson, R. et al. (2006) Epizooplankton summer production in the Irminger Sea. J. Mar. Syst., 62, 1-8.