Loick, N, Ekau, W ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4844-9654 and Verheye, HM (2005) Water-body preferences of dominant calanoid copepod species in the Angola-Benguela frontal zone. African Journal of Marine Science, 27 (3). pp. 597-608. DOI https://doi.org/10.2989/18142320509504120.

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Abstract

The distribution of five dominant calanoid copepods was related to different water masses in the Angola-Benguela Front system. Five water bodies were identified by principal component analysis, on the basis of abiotic parameter such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, silicate, nitrate and nitrite. These parameters were reduced to single factors and arranged along two principal component axes. The copepod species incuded females and copepodites C5 of Calanoides carinatus and females of Metridia lucens, Centropages brachiatus, Nannocalanus minor and Aetideopsis carinata. The water bodies identified in the frontal system were related to currents, upwelling processes, an oxygen minimum layer and biological modification. The different copepod species, as well as the two ontogenetic stages of C. carinatus, showed clear preference for specific water bodies, and their behavioural and physiological adaptations to the environment are discussed.

Document Type:	Article
Programme Area:	PA Not Applicable
Research affiliation:	Ecology > Fisheries Biology
Refereed:	Yes
Open Access Journal?:	No
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.2989/18142320509504120
ISSN:	1814-232X
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2025 10:43
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2025 10:43
URI:	https://cris.leibniz-zmt.de/id/eprint/5943

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