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- Title
A COMPARISON OF THE ANNUAL GROWTH PATTERNS OF BALANUS BALANOIDES (L.) WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EFFECT OF FOOD AND TEMPERATURE.
- Authors
Barnes, H.; Barnes, Margaret
- Abstract
1. The growth pattern of Balanus balanoides is discussed: typically growth is rapid during the spring following settlement, slows down during the summer and virtually ceases during the winter. 2. References are made to the unusual conditions at Woods Hole and attention drawn to the fact that synchrony of planktonic phase and diatom abundance is maintained, 3. Growth of marked individuals has been followed on panels kept continuously submerged and on shore populations. In both cases the animals were kept free from algae so that comparisons could be made with the results elsewhere. 4. Growth is moderate and continuous during the autumn and winter, slightly accelerated during the spring and for a short period in the summer almost ceases, 5. Temperature does not appear to be the controlling factor. 6. There is a strong correlation between the course of the diatom population —with a distinct winter maximum—and the course of the growth curves. 7. Some effects of micro-climate are demonstrated. 8. Even at the height of the diatom increase at Woods Hole the specific growth rates, at any particular size, are less than those under similar conditions at Millport. It is suggested that the kind of food as well as the amount must be taken into account. The diatom flora and its sequence at Woods Hole are not typically boreo-arctic in character. The quality of the food may be a factor in limiting a species, 9. The question of acclimation is discussed.
- Subjects
SEMIBALANUS balanoides; BALANUS; CRUSTACEA; ARTHROPODA; PLANKTON populations; AQUATIC biology
- Publication
Oikos, 1959, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3564902