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Simultaneous measurements of respiration, excretion and production rates were carried out several times over a year period at five representative stations of the Ebrié Lagoon. Assuming a constant assimilation efficiency rate of 69.4%, we derived metabolic budgets for carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Daily specific ingestion rates calculated were rather generally high, and ranged between 54 and 159% of body carbon, between 26 and 102% of body nitrogen and between 108 and 307% of body phosphorus. Regional and seasonal variations depended mainly upon variations in trophic conditions. Curvilinear relationships between ingestion production, or net production efficiency K2, and food concentration (as chlorophyll-a + phaeopigments) showed that food could have been a limiting factor. Furthermore, K2 were low when compared with data from the literature (mean of 21% in carbon, 39% in nitrogen and 11 % in phosphorus).
Complementary laboratory experiments carried out on adults fed with enriched natural particles or algal cultures (Tetraselmis sp. or Dunaliella sp.) showed similar production (egg-production) vs food concentration curvilinear relationships as in the field. However, considerably higher maximal ingestion and production rates were obtained for animals fed algal cultures suggesting that optima for food acquisition and transformation were not reached in field conditions. Consequently, A. clausi, which represents more than 50% of the zooplankton biomass, appears to be rather inefficient in transforming the abundant particulate organic matter produced in the lagoon. This results from its high level of metabolic expenditure through respiration or excretion (about 50% of ingestion in terms of carbon) and from the small size and poor trophic value of food particles (high percentage of detritus).
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Pagano, M., Saint-Jean, L. (1994). In situ metabolic budget for the calanoid copepod Acartia clausi in a tropical brackish water lagoon (Ebrié Lagoon, Ivory Coast). In: Dumont, H.J., Green, J., Masundire, H. (eds) Studies on the Ecology of Tropical Zooplankton. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0884-3_11
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