New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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SPECIES ASSOCIATIONS AND SEASONAL POPULATION DENSITIES OF MARINE PHYTAL HARPACTICOID COPEPODS FROM COOK STRAIT

Geoffrey R. F. Hicks*

Zoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract A quantitative study was made on occurrence, density, seasonal periodicity, and associations of 27 species of harpacticoid copepods collected from. 6 species of marine algae at Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, from April 1973 to March 1974.

The dominant species on each alga fluctuated in abundance seasonally, and the timing of population maxima differed noticeably between species. Fluctuations in abundance were usually related to reproductive activity, which was largely unrelated to environmental temperature. Total densities on algae were highest in the spring for Corallina (578 individuals per 10 cm²) and Ecklonia (6 per 10 cm²), in summer for Enteromorpha (366 per 10 cm²), Zonaria (86 per 10 cm²), and Pterocladia (66 per 10 cm²) and in autumn for Xiphophora (39 ,per 10 cm²).

Received 13 September 1976; revision received 1 March 1977. N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 11 (4): 621-43.

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