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Egg production rate of the copepod Acrocalanus inermis was measured at 3 stations in south Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in August 1977 and July–October 1979. The egg production rates were significantly variable spatially, but temporal variability over a time scale of weeks was larger than spatial variability. In three experiments, egg production rates were correlated with ambient concentrations of particulate matter, a crude estimate of food concentration. Most values for egg production rates ranged between 5 and 16.9 eggs female-1 d-1.
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Kimmerer, W.J. Spatial and temporal variability in egg production rates of the calanoid copepod Acrocalanus inermis . Mar. Biol. 78, 165–169 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394696
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