Composição e distribuição da família paracalanidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) ao Largo de São Sebastião, estado de São Paulo-Brasil, com ênfase em três espécies de paracalanus

Vega-Pérez, Luz Amelia; Hernandez, Simone

doi:10.1590/s1413-77391997000100007

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“…In the south-west Atlantic, Paracalanus is one of the most important genera in the neritic region off the Brazilian coast. They are common copepods off this coast, as has been reported by Valentin & Monteiro-Ribas (1993), Dias (1996), Vega-Pérez & Hernandez (1997), Lopes et al (1999), |Neumann-Leitão et al (1999, Dias et al (2010) and Miyashita et al (2009). In the present study, P. quasimodo was the dominant and most frequent species.…”

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Spatial and temporal changes in biomass, production and assemblage structure of mesozooplanktonic copepods in the tropical south-west Atlantic Ocean

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We examined the spatial and temporal variations of coastal and oceanic epipelagic copepods (rainy–dry seasons of 2009) in a tropical area of the south-west Atlantic. Zooplankton samples were obtained at 48 stations along six transects perpendicular to the coast, in the subsurface water between the 25 and 3000 m isobaths, by horizontal hauls using a Multinet. Abundance (42–64,753 ind. m−3), biomass (0.08–113 mg C m−3) and daily copepod production (0.17–163.20 mg C m−3 d−1) showed longitudinal and latitudinal variability. The highest values were observed over the southern continental shelf during the dry season. Temoridae, Undinula vulgaris and Paracalanus quasimodo dominated the biomass and daily copepod production during the rainy season; while Calanoides carinatus, Calanopia americana, Clausocalanidae, Temoridae, Paracalanidae and Subeucalanidae dominated during the dry season. The copepod assemblages formed four different groups: rainy season–continental shelf (1), dry season–continental shelf (2), rainy season–continental slope (3) and dry season–continental slope (4). Temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a and suspended particulate matter explained 45% of the productivity distribution of the dominant copepod species. This study is the first attempt to examine the biomass and daily copepod production in oceanic waters in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, and it showed that copepod biomass and production in a tropical region can be relatively high compared with other regions of the world's oceans.

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“…Their mean densities remained high out to the 75-m isobath, and decreased from the 350- to the 3000-m isobaths. Paracalanus quasimodo has been cited as the most abundant copepod species associated with coastal, neritic and shelf waters of tropical regions (Campaner, 1985; Vega-Pérez & Hernandez, 1997; Lopes et al , 1999; Araujo, 2006).…”

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