Mortality and recruitment in two copepod populations in a subarctic oligotrophic reservoir and the influence of environmental forcing
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Abstract
We describe the stage-specific mortality, survival and recruitment patterns for a cyclopoid and a calanoid copepod through the use of vertical life table analysis. Over a 2-year period in Lake Saint-Jean, Qu<a><ac>e</ac><ac>´</ac></a>bec, Canada, we show that during the growing season, <it>Diacyclops bicuspidatus thomasi</it> (May–June) had its highest daily mortality rate during metamorphosis (N6–C1), while <it>Leptodiaptomus ashlandi</it> (June–August) had its highest daily mortality rates during the naupliar stages. Patterns in daily recruitment rates differed between the species with the early stages of <it>L. ashlandi</it> experiencing a greater population loss during the growing season. Recruitment of <it>D. bicuspidatus thomasi</it> was controlled by reproduction, while recruitment of <it>L. ashlandi</it> was governed by reproduction and mortality/survival although also influenced by seasonal patterns of phytoplankton biomass. A multiple regression model suggested that cannibalism influenced the mortality of the early stages of <it>D. bicuspidatus thomasi</it> during their growing season. Temperature, competition and cannibalism influenced the mortality of the early stages of <it>L. ashlandi</it>. However, there are interannual differences likely due to interannual difference in seasonal patterns of phytoplankton biomass. Our study emphasizes the importance of interactions between bottom-up and top-down controls governing copepod population dynamics.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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