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Ultimate Causes of Vertical Migration in Zooplankton: An Evaluation by Evolutionary Game Theory

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Ecodynamics

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Diel vertical migration is a widespread but not well understood behaviour in freshwater and marine Zooplankton (Pearre 1979a and 1979b). Many taxa avoid the warm and food rich upper waters during day, but at dusk they swim long distances upward and stay in the upper water layers during night. Around sunrise they descend again and stay in colder and food scarce waters during day. At least cladocerans can not compensate for the food shortage during day by increasing feeding rates and by storing food during night (Lampert and Taylor 1985). The extra swimming for migration seems not to be very costly in terms of energy consumption. Most zooplankters carry their eggs with them. As egg development time is inversely proportional to temperature, a lowered temperature increases generation time drastically but may reduce metabolic costs.

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  1. Department of Physiological Ecology, Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, Postfach 165, D-2320, Plön, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    W. Gabriel

  2. Institut für Entwicklungsphysiologie der Universität Köln, Gyrhofstr. 17, D-5000, Köln, Fed.Rep.of Germany

    B. Thomas

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Gabriel, W., Thomas, B. (1988). Ultimate Causes of Vertical Migration in Zooplankton: An Evaluation by Evolutionary Game Theory. In: Wolff, W., Soeder, CJ., Drepper, F.R. (eds) Ecodynamics. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73953-8_11

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