Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China

Xiaohong Sun; Song Sun; Chaolun Li; Minxiao Wang

doi:10.1007/s00343-012-1140-9

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Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China

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- Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China
- Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2012年30卷第3期页码：404-409
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. Ocean College Shandong University at Weihai
  3. Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Funds：
  
  Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-213-3), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2006CB400606), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40631008)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-012-1140-9
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- 网络首发：2011-09-27，
  
  纸质出版：2012
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Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(3):404-409.

Sun, X., Sun, S., Li, C. et al. Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 404–409 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1140-9
Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(3):404-409. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-012-1140-9.

Sun, X., Sun, S., Li, C. et al. Seasonal change in body length of important small copepods and relationship with environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 404–409 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1140-9 DOI：

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Abstract

Differences among species in prosome length and in species’ response to environmental factors do exist. Therefore

it is useful to examine prosome length for different copepod species in variable environments. Seasonal variations in prosome length of four small copepods and their copepodite stages in the Jiaozhou Bay were compared and the relative influence of temperature

salinity

and chlorophyll concentration were examined. Two peaks were found in the mean prosome length of Paracalanus parvus (in early winter and May). For Acartia bifilosa

the maximum values of all copepodites occurred mainly from February to April

and decreased to the bottom in July. Prosome length of Acartia pacifica peaked when it first appeared in June

then reached to the minimum in July. Parvocalanus crassirostris only appeared from late summer to autumn and the mean prosome length showed no clear changes. Correlations of adult prosome length with environmental factors were evaluated. For the four species

temperature was negatively correlated to prosome length except for P. crassirostris. But the different species varied markedly in their responds to temperature. A. bifilosa showed a more definite trend of size variation with temperature than P. parvus and A. pacifica. Correlations of prosome length with salinity were significantly positive for almost all the small copepods. The relationship between chlorophyll concentration and prosome length was complicated for these copepods

but for P. parvus

chlorophyll concentration was also an important affecting factor. Furthermore

investigation needs to be done on food quality for some copepod. These results are essential to estimate the biomass and the production

and to understand these small copepods’ population dynamics in this human-affected bay.

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