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Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez1, Ricardo Palomares-García, Roxana De Silva-Dávila, ... Palomares-García and Gómez-Gutiérrez (1996), two species of Acartiidae.
Journal of Plankton Research Vol.21 no.12 pp.2227–2244, 1999

Copepod daily egg production and growth rates in Bahía Magdalena, México Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez1, Ricardo Palomares-García, Roxana De Silva-Dávila, María Azucena Carballido-Carranza and Aída Martínez-López Departamento de Plancton y Ecología Marina, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Apartado Postal 592, CP 23000, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México 1Present

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Abstract. The hydrography, chlorophyll (Chl) a and egg production of the copepods Paracalanus parvus (Claus), Acartia lilljeborgii Giesbrecht, Acartia clausi Giesbrecht and Centropages furcatus were estimated daily between 7 February and 5 March 1998 in Bahía Magdalena, Baja California Sur, México. Temperature was homogeneous throughout the water column during the study (20°C). Positive anomalies of the sea surface temperature were recorded 10 months before and during the sampling period compared with a temperature–time series, 1982–1989. Chlorophyll a concentration indicated oligotrophic conditions with