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The effects of temperature on rates of respiration, excretion and gut evacuation were examined for copepodite stages and adult female Calanus glacialis collected in areas close to the ice-edge during the arctic summer in the Barents Sea. The various life history stages responded differently to acute temperature changes above the in situ temperature (ca.-1.7°C). Respiration rates of early copepodite stages (C I to C IV) were very variable whereas excretion rates declined with increasing temperature in the range from-1.7°C to +5°C. Rate of oxygen consumption of adult females were independent of temperature between-1.7° and +5°C, but increased as temperature increased from +5° to 10°C. Rates of excretion of copepodite stage V and adult females were independent of temperature in the range from-1.7° to +2°C, whereas excretion of copepodite stages III and IV was negatively related to temperature in the range from-1.7° to +5°C. In C IV, C V and adult females the instantaneous rate of gut evacuation increased with increasing temperature. The different response patterns of metabolic rates of small copepodite stages, copepodite stage V and adult females C. glacialis to acute temperature changes suggest that the capacity for adjustment of ammonia excretion is better developed in C V's and adult females than in the younger life stages.
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Tande, K.S. The effects of temperature on metabolic rates of different life stages of Calanus glacialis in the Barents Sea. Polar Biol 8, 457–461 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264722
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