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Mesozooplankton community structure and grazing impact in the Polar Frontal Zone of the south Indian Ocean during austral autumn 2002

机译：Mesozooplankton community structure and grazing impact in the Polar Frontal Zone of the south Indian Ocean during austral autumn 2002

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Mesozooplankton community structure and grazing impact were investigated at 13 stations in the Polar Frontal Zone during the second Marion Offshore Variability Ecosystem Study (MOVES 11), conducted during April 2002. Total integrated chl-alpha biomass ranged between 11.17 and 28.34 mg chl-alpha m(-2) and was always dominated by nano- and picophytoplankton (<20 mum). Throughout the study, small copepods, mainly Oithona similis and Ctenocalanus vanus, numerically dominated the mesozooplankton community, composing up to 85 (range 30-85) of the total abundance. Grazing activity of the four most abundant copepods (O. similis, C. vanus, Calanus simillimus and Clausocalanus spp.), constituting up to 93 of total mesozooplankton abundance, was investigated using the gut fluorescence technique. Results of gut fluorescence analyses indicated that Calanus simillimus and Clausocalanus spp. exhibited diel variability in gut pigments with maximum values recorded at night. In contrast, O. similis and Ctenocalanus vanus did not demonstrate diel variation in gut pigment contents. Ingestion rates of the four corepods ranged from 23.23 to 1462,02 ng(pigm.)ind(-1)day(-1). The combined grazing impact of the four copepods ranged between 1 and 36 of the phytoplankton standing stock per day, with the highest daily impact occurring at stations occupied in the vicinity of the Antarctic Polar Front (similar to35.86 at station 23). Among the copepods, O. similis and Ctenocalanus vanus represented the most important consumers of phytoplankton biomass, collectively responsible for up to 89 (range 15-89) of the total daily grazing impact. Carbon specific ingestion rates of the copepods varied between 42 and 320 body carbon per day. References: 44

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