Seasonal variation in community structure and body length of dominant copepods around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island, China

Xiaohong Sun; Zhenlin Liang; Jixin Zou; Longxiang Wang

doi:10.1007/s00343-013-2088-0

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Seasonal variation in community structure and body length of dominant copepods around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island, China

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- Seasonal variation in community structure and body length of dominant copepods around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island, China
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 31, Issue 2, Pages: 282-289(2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Ocean College Shandong University at Weihai
  2. Institute of Fisheries Research on Sea Cucumber at Xigang
  3. Marine and Fisheries Bureau at Qingdao
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-013-2088-0
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- Online First：27 December 2012，
  
  Published：2013
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Sun, X., Liang, Z., Zou, J. et al. Seasonal variation in community structure and body length of dominant copepods around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 282–289 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2088-0
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Sun, X., Liang, Z., Zou, J. et al. Seasonal variation in community structure and body length of dominant copepods around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 31, 282–289 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-013-2088-0 DOI：

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the seasonal variations in copepod community structure and prosome length of dominant species from March 2009 to January 2010 around artificial reefs in Xiaoshi Island

Yellow Sea

Weihai

China. Samples were collected using two types of plankton net (Model I and Model II) for different-sized copepods. The number of taxon was calculated from the data of both the net types

while the copepod abundance was done using the samples from Model II only. Sixteen species of planktonic copepods

including 5 dominant species

were recorded. Results reveal that Oithona similis was the first dominant species from March to June

and was replaced by Paracalanus parvus in September; both dominated the copepod community in January. Acartia hongi was the second dominant species from March to September. Centropages abdominalis was the third dominant species from March to June

and was replaced by O. similis in September and Corycaeus affinis in January. C. affinis was the fourth dominant species in September. Population density of the dominant copepods was compared with that of other similar regions. We found that the dominant species were mostly small copepods (<1 mm) except for adult Centrapages abdominalis. Seasonal variation in prosome length of O. similis

C. abdominalis

and C. affinis

and their copepodites were studied for the first time in China. For P. parvus and A. hongi

seasonal trends in prosome length variation were similar with those in Jiaozhou Bay

Yellow Sea

Qingdao

China

in a similar temperate domain. The results are helpful for future calculation of copepod biomass and production

and for investigation of the relationship between copepods and fish resources.

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