The influence of feeding strategies on trace element bioaccumulation in copepods ( Calanoida )

The Influence of Reduced Light on Competing Zooplanktonic Populations – Inference from Mathematical Modeling and Field Data

“…Climatic forcing can greatly change the intensity of fluxes, but the general pattern can be considered permanent, [17,19]. The sampling station (4328'10"N, 1001'55"E) is characterized by the large extension of the continental shelf and limited depth (100 m), even at remarkable distances from the coast (12.5 nautical miles), [4]. The sampling area represents the water column for the models.…”

“…WinterIn the winter at depth 1m, the population values follow the trends of each whole population along the water column, with omnivores dominating at value 28, followed by herbivores at 3.8 and lastly by carnivores at 0.8. At 10m and 15m carnivores do not change, omnivores and herbivores fall respectively to 20 4. and 2.6, 14.8 and 1.9.…”

“…Indeed it has been shown that copepods can strongly select between similarly sized food particles because of chemical properties, [9], an ability which is lacking in true zooplanktonic filter feeders such as tunicates and cladocerans. Copepods are thought to use different feeding modes depending on their species-specific mouthparts, particularly in the morphology of the mandibular gnathobases and the movements that are possible with them [26,22,21,4]. More generally, is widely known that zooplankton mainly feeds on phytoplankton, hence the phytoplankton plays an important role in the study of zooplankton dynamics.…”

A first report of rare earth elements in northwestern Mediterranean seaweeds

“…Censi et al, 2004;Martinez-Boti et al, 2009;Tranchida et al, 2011;Roussiez et al, 2013;Ayache et al, 2016); conversely, occurrence and distribution of REE in marine biota have scarcely been investigated. To our knowledge, there are only two studies that have analyzed the distribution of REE in plankton from the Mediterranean Sea (Strady et al, 2015;Battuello et al, 2017); examining REE in marine organisms is of great importance because of their increasing levels in seawater environments and, consequently, in the marine food chain.…”

The complete mitochondrial genome of Africa's largest freshwater copepod, Lovenula raynerae

“…Copepods are a diverse group of aquatic crustaceans found in both marine and freshwater environments (Boxshall and Defaye 2008;Kim et al 2013;Battuello et al 2017). Of the 10 copepod orders (Boxshall and Defaye 2008), Calanoida is particularly important, as it is both species-rich (2266 species have been described; Battuello et al 2017) and very abundant (they may constitute up to 95% of marine plankton samples; Mauchline 1998) and thus plays an important role in trophic interactions as a link between primary producers and secondary consumers (Dalu et al 2016;Battuello et al 2017;Wasserman et al 2018). Despite their ecological importance and abundance, only one complete mitogenome has been published for the order Calanoida (Kim et al 2013).…”