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Seasonal Changes in Population Density and Vertical Distribution of Harpacticoid Copepods on an Intertidal sand Beach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Roger P. Harris
Roger P. Harris
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The Plymouth Laboratory
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An account has been given (Harris, 1972b) of the distribution of interstitial harpacticoid copepods on an intertidal transect at Whitsand Bay, E. Cornwall. The present work describes seasonal changes observed in the copepod species populations over a period of 2 years, from May 1968 to May 1970. Changes in population density and vertical distribution are described, and the relationship between these changes and the physical environment are discussed. A full account of the reproductive activity and lifecycles of the copepod species will be given later (Harris, 1972d). The only detailed accounts of seasonal cycles of individual intertidal harpacticoids are those of Lasker, Wells & Mclntyre (1970) for the sand-dwelling benthic copepod Asellopsis intermedia (T. Scott) and of Barnett (1968, 1970) for two species of Platychelipus Brady on an intertidal mudflat.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , August 1972 , pp. 493 - 505
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1972

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