Influence of temperature on the reproductive potential ofOncholaimus oxyuris(Nematoda: Oncholaimidae)

✍ Scribed by C. Heip; N. Smol; V. Absillis

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 590 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00390608

✦ Synopsis

The large n e m a t o d e Oncho!aimus oxyuris Ditlevsen, 1911 is a d o m i n a n t p r e d a t o r in a shallow p o l y h a l i n e b r a c k i s h -w a t e r pond in Belgium. The r e p r o d u c t i v e p o t e n t i a l of this species was c a l c u l a t e d as the intrinsic rate of natural increase r = I/D in PNe, in w h i c h D is the g e n e r a t i o n time, p is the p e r c e n t a g e of females, and N e is the number of eggs per female. The g e n e r a t i o n time varies b e t w e e n 570 days at 5oc