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The reproductive potential of two harpacticoid copepods, Tachidius discipes and Paronychocamptus nanus, as measured by the intrinsic rate of natural increase, r m, has been studied. The influence of temperature on all factors used in the calculation of r mhas been taken into account. Generation time, which has also been determined in a third species, Nitocra typica, is the single factor which is most affected by temperature and which has the most pronounced effect on r m. Values of the reproductive potential differ considerably according to temperature, and thus to the time of the year; during the spring bloom more than half the reproductive potential is realized.
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Heip, C., Smol, N. Influence of temperature on the reproductive potential of two brackish-water harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda). Mar. Biol. 35, 327–334 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386643
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