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Production of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis (Ploimida: Brachionidae) in a Brazilian coastal lagoon

dc.creatorMaioli Castilho, María Stela
dc.creatorArcifa, Marlene Sofía
dc.date2015-04-29
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-03T15:27:13Z
dc.date.available2016-05-03T15:27:13Z
dc.descriptionSecondary production, density and biomass fluctuations, and some reproductive aspects of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis were studied weekly for two years in a Brazilian coastal lagoon. Food (and secondarily temperature) seemed to be the main factor involved in the summer increments. In the first summer, a mass mortality of fish caused changes in the phytoplankton, which switched from the dominance of Cyanophyceae to Chlorophyceae and other groups. For two months, production, density and biomass were relatively high until the recovery of the Cyanophyceae dominance. In the second summer, peaks of shorter duration and higher values of production, in comparison to the first one, were found. The contribution of resting eggs hatching, in the first summer, and the increment in parthenogenetic reproduction, in the second summer, would account for the population increases observed. Males and mictic females occurred when densities were high.en-US
dc.descriptionSecondary production, density and biomass fluctuations, and some reproductive aspects of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis were studied weekly for two years in a Brazilian coastal lagoon. Food (and secondarily temperature) seemed to be the main factor involved in the summer increments. In the first summer, a mass mortality of fish caused changes in the phytoplankton, which switched from the dominance of Cyanophyceae to Chlorophyceae and other groups. For two months, production, density and biomass were relatively high until the recovery of the Cyanophyceae dominance. In the second summer, peaks of shorter duration and higher values of production, in comparison to the first one, were found. The contribution of resting eggs hatching, in the first summer, and the increment in parthenogenetic reproduction, in the second summer, would account for the population increases observed. Males and mictic females occurred when densities were high.es
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dc.identifierhttp://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/18902
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/26120
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de Costa Ricaen
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.sourceRevista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Vol. 48 (4) December 2000; 859-865en
dc.sourceRevista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Vol. 48 (4) December 2000; 859-865es
dc.sourceRevista Biología Tropical; Vol. 48 (4) December 2000; 859-865pt-PT
dc.source2215-2075
dc.source0034-7744
dc.subjectcoastal lagoonen
dc.subjectzooplanktonen
dc.subjectbrachionus plicatilisen
dc.subjectsecondary productionen
dc.subjectmictic phaseen
dc.subjectsouth americaen
dc.titleProduction of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis (Ploimida: Brachionidae) in a Brazilian coastal lagoonen
dc.titleProduction of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis (Ploimida: Brachionidae) in a Brazilian coastal lagoones
dc.typeartículo original

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