ArticleJournal of plankton research
Dietary plasticity in small Arctic copepods as revealed with prey metabarcoding.
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- 16 years of gelatinous zooplankton seasonal abundances reveal food availability and temperature as key drivers in Arctic latitudes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Life-History Traits of a Small Cosmopolitan Copepod (Biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Objectives: Small copepods (<2 mm) compose an important constituent of the Arctic marine food web, but their trophic interactions remain largely unexplored, partly due to methodological limitations. Methods: We here characterize the prey of the abundant cyclopoid Key findings: Chaetognaths were unexpectedly the most consistently identified taxa and composed 47% of all prey reads. Some taxa were seasonally important, including diatoms in April-May (43%), dinoflagellates in December (15%) and March (17%), and urochordates in August (20%). Compositional differences among species were also discernible, and the Conclusions: Our results thus indicate that dietary plasticity is common in small Arctic copepods, regardless of their behaviors or strategies for finding sustenance. We further hypothesize that such plasticity is an important adaptation in systems where prey availability is highly seasonal.
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