Bythotrephes cederstroemi Diapausing Egg Distribution and Abundance in Lake Michigan and the Environmental Cues for Breaking Diapause

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peder M. Yurista
1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Baker ◽  
Scott A. Tolentino ◽  
Thomas S. McComish

1995 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peder M. Yurista ◽  
Kimberly L. Schulz

A bioenergetic model for Bythotrephes cederstroemi was constructed using measured physiological parameters to predict predation rates. The model predicts that juvenile B. cederstroemi will consume approximately 150% of their body weight per day, while adults consume 118% of their body weight per day. These rates are consistent with those of other invertebrate crustaceans. The predicted rate was twice that of an experimental measurement reported for Lake Huron B. cederstroemi; this discrepancy is attributed to experimental artifacts and to differences between B. cederstroemi populations in Lake Michigan and those in Lakes Huron and Erie. The model was most sensitive to estimation of ingestion and assimilation efficiencies and, secondarily, respiration coefficients. This model estimates the consumption rate of B. cederstroemi in Lake Michigan under optimal food resource conditions, and may be useful in predicting the future impact of B. cederstroemi predation on the zooplankton assemblages of other lakes.


Author(s):  
C. E. M. Bourne ◽  
L. Sicko-Goad

Much recent attention has been focused on vegetative survival forms of planktonic diatoms and other algae. There are several reports of extended vegetative survival of the freshwater diatom Melosira in lake sediments. In contrast to those diatoms which form a morphologically distinct resistant spore, Melosira is known to produce physiological resting cells that are indistinguishable in outward morphology from actively growing cells.We used both light and electron microscopy to document and elucidate the sequence of cytological changes during the transition from resting cells to actively growing cells in a population of Melosira granulata from Douglas Lake, Michigan sediments collected in mid-July of 1983.


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