{"title":"Income and capital breeding","authors":"Mads Schultz, Marvin Choquet, Malin Daase, Galice Hoarau","doi":"10.1002/lno.70209","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Copepods of the genus <jats:italic>Calanus</jats:italic> are key species in the energy transfer from primary producers to higher trophic levels in Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas. The timing of reproduction can differ between species, depending on whether they rely on external energy sources to initiate reproduction (income breeders) or use internal energy sources (capital breeders), or both. The high morphological similarity among species, especially when co‐occurring in sympatry, has limited the reliability of species‐specific conclusions on life history traits in previous studies relying on morphological identification only. Here, we applied molecular species identification to reliably compare breeding strategies among co‐occurring <jats:italic>Calanus hyperboreus</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Calanus glacialis</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Calanus finmarchicus</jats:italic> in a northern Norwegian fjord. Lipid content of adult females was measured with high temporal resolution over an entire annual cycle, and the presence of nauplii was determined for each species. <jats:italic>Calanus hyperboreus</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>C. glacialis</jats:italic> were found to be strict capital breeders, whereas <jats:italic>C. finmarchicus</jats:italic> acted as an income breeder.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Limnology and Oceanography","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70209","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LIMNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Copepods of the genus Calanus are key species in the energy transfer from primary producers to higher trophic levels in Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas. The timing of reproduction can differ between species, depending on whether they rely on external energy sources to initiate reproduction (income breeders) or use internal energy sources (capital breeders), or both. The high morphological similarity among species, especially when co‐occurring in sympatry, has limited the reliability of species‐specific conclusions on life history traits in previous studies relying on morphological identification only. Here, we applied molecular species identification to reliably compare breeding strategies among co‐occurring Calanus hyperboreus, Calanus glacialis, and Calanus finmarchicus in a northern Norwegian fjord. Lipid content of adult females was measured with high temporal resolution over an entire annual cycle, and the presence of nauplii was determined for each species. Calanus hyperboreus and C. glacialis were found to be strict capital breeders, whereas C. finmarchicus acted as an income breeder.
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Limnology and Oceanography (L&O; print ISSN 0024-3590, online ISSN 1939-5590) publishes original articles, including scholarly reviews, about all aspects of limnology and oceanography. The journal''s unifying theme is the understanding of aquatic systems. Submissions are judged on the originality of their data, interpretations, and ideas, and on the degree to which they can be generalized beyond the particular aquatic system examined. Laboratory and modeling studies must demonstrate relevance to field environments; typically this means that they are bolstered by substantial "real-world" data. Few purely theoretical or purely empirical papers are accepted for review.