An Investigation of Predation on Meroplankton Using In Situ Experiments

小行星9521093 海洋无脊椎动物的成年种群的大小部分是影响其浮游幼虫死亡率的因素的结果。 在这项研究中，自然捕食的重要性，这些meroplankton的生存将进行评估，在现场实验，试图测试三个假设：1）幼虫死亡率直接与浓度的浮游生物，2）“背景”浮游生物显着影响捕食率，和3）形态和行为的meroplankton的捕食率种间变异。 ***

9521093 Shanks The size of an adult population of a marine invertebrate is in part the result of factors affecting the mortality of their planktonic larvae. In this study the importance of natural predation to the survival of these meroplankton will be assessed with in situ experiments that seek to test three hypotheses: 1) larval mortality rate varies directly with the concentration of planktonic predators, 2) "background" plankton significantly influences predation rates, and 3) morphology and behavior of meroplankton contribute to interspecific variation in predation rates. ***