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Production and Survivorship of Epizoites of the Hydroid Nemertesia Antennina (L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. G. Hughes
R. G. Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The University, Reading, Berkshire
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The survivorship of marine invertebrates that have a life span of less than 2 years is usually assessed by observing the decrease in abundance of animals from samples taken frequently throughout the life of an identifiable cohort or generation (e.g. Crisp, 1971). This method is only suitable for species with approximately simultaneous recruitment so that the animals can be aged with reasonable accuracy and the mortality before the end of the recruitment period can safely be ignored. Such age-specific survivorship data can be used to calculate secondary production by revealing the number of animals that reach successive weights (= Allen curves) (Crisp, 1971).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , May 1978 , pp. 333 - 345
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1978

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