An analysis of prey selection byMesocyclops edax

✍ Scribed by Anthony Janicki; John DeCosta

• Book ID: 104623415
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 515 KB
• Volume: 198
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00048630

✦ Synopsis

The results of four laboratory experiments suggest that Mesocyclops edax selectively preyed upon Bosmina longirostris, given Daphnia parvula and Diaptomus pallidus as alternative prey . These results support an earlier hypothesis (DeCosta & Janicki, 1978) that M. edax may act as an important determinant of the crustacean plankton community structure in an acid lake devoid of planktivorous fishes .