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Age and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank

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dc.contributor.authorHairston, Nelson G., Jr.
dc.contributor.authorVan Brunt, Robert A.
dc.contributor.authorKearns, Colleen M.
dc.contributor.authorEngstrom, Daniel R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-31T20:52:54Z
dc.date.available2018-05-31T20:52:54Z
dc.date.issued1995-09
dc.description.abstractWe determined the densities of diapausing eggs of the copepod Diaptomnus sanguineas in sediments from two small freshwater lakes in Rhode Island. Sediment cores, sliced at 1-cm intervals, showed that egg densities ranged between 4 X 10^4 and 8x 10^4 eggs/m^2 near the sediment surface and declined to very low values at depths of 10-15 cm in both lakes, although eggs were found as deep as 30 cm in the sediment of one lake. Between 10 and 50% of these eggs hatched in short-term laboratory experiments, and actual egg viability is probably higher. Pb-dating revealed relatively constant sedimentation rates in both lakes, and we use this information to estimate egg ages. In one lake, the mean diapausing-egg age is 70.4 yr (median age = 45.9 yr) and the maximum age of eggs we hatched was 332 yr. In the other lake, the mean egg age is 48.9 yr (median age = 35.9 yr) and the maximum age of eggs we hatched was 112 yr. We calculated egg mortality rates by regressing ln(egg density) on the age of the sediment from which the eggs were taken to obtain estimates of 1. 1 and 1.5% mortality/yr for the two lakes. Diapausing eggs of zooplankton represent a long-lived life history stage of an otherwise short-lived organism. They provide generation overlap that can have substantial significance for both ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
dc.identifier.citationEcology (1995) 76:1706-1711
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/57236
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEcological Society of America
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.2307/1940704
dc.subjectdiapausing eggs
dc.subjectDiaptomus sanguineus
dc.subjectegg bank
dc.subjectegg mortality
dc.subjectgeneration overlap
dc.subjectPb-dating
dc.subjectlife-span
dc.subjectzooplankton
dc.titleAge and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank
dc.typearticle
dcterms.licensehttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/57207

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