- Title
- Growth and longevity of Exosphaeroma hylocoetes (Isopoda) under varying conditions of salinity and temperature
- Creator
- Henninger, Tony O, Froneman, P William, Booth, Anthony J, Hodgson, Alan N
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/124571
- Identifier
- vital:35630
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.3377/004.045.0118
- Description
- Numerous studies have documented the importance of both temperature and salinity in influencing aquatic crustacean metabolic processes such as respiration and growth. For example, increased water temperatures have been shown to increase respiration rates in various species of shrimp (Chen & Nan 1993; Spanonopoulos-Hernándeza et al. 2005; Allan et al. 2006), and copepods (Isla & Perissinotto 2004). The response of invertebrates to changes in salinity is more complex, largely reflecting their evolutionary origins (Kinne 1966). For example, juvenile blue swimming crabs, Portunus pelagicus, displayed significantly faster growth and higher survival in response to increasingsalinity (Romano & Zeng 2006). Additional factors that may influence the growth rates of crustaceans include photoperiod (Gambardella et al. 1997), food availability (Shuster & Guthrie 1999) and sex (Newman et al. 2007).
- Format
- 12 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Zoology, Henninger, T.O., Froneman, P.W., Booth, A.J. and Hodgson, A.N., 2010. Growth and longevity of Exosphaeroma hylocoetes (Isopoda) under varying conditions of salinity and temperature. African Zoology, 45(1), pp.41-51, African Zoology volume 45 number 1 41 51 2010 1562-7020
- Rights
- African Zoology
- Rights
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