Spatial Distributions and Hypothetical Grazing Pressures of Zooplankton in the Tidal, Freshwater Potomac River
作者:
Claire Buchanan,
JeffreyA. Schloss,
期刊:
Journal of Freshwater Ecology
(Taylor Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 2
页码: 117-128
ISSN:0270-5060
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1080/02705060.1983.9664584
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Zooplankton in the tidal, freshwater Potomac River were usually unstratified in the water column. Vertical mixing caused primarily by tides apparently prevented stratification, hence the classic pattern of diel vertical migration was not found. Larger grazers could occasionally concentrate in deeper waters during daylight hours, so the mean distributions of zooplankton grazing pressure was slightly skewed towards the bottom. Zooplankton tended to exhibit patchy horizontal distributions, and densities along river transects could vary by an order of magnitude. Populations of zooplankton grazers during the 1981 summer could hypothetically remove an average of of 1.1% to 3.7% of the water column's phytoplankton each day. Estimated values ranged as high as 9.7% day-1.
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