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Table 4 Major taxonomic groups identified from plankton samples (“mixed plankton”) used in fatty acid analyses in 2013

From: Fatty acid composition and lipid content in the copepod Limnocalanus macrurus during summer in the southern Bothnian Sea

Taxonomic group

Date

May 23

June 12

July 1

Sept 9

Aphanizomenon flos-aquae

+

++

+

++

Nodularia spumigena

  

+

+

Anabaena sp.

  

+

 

Gonyaulax spp.

+++

+

 

+

Dinophysis spp.

+++

+

+

++

Peridinium spp.

+

   

Chaetoceros wighamii

++

  

+

Achnanthes taeniata

+

  

+

Thalassiosira baltica

+

 

+

+

Helicostomella subulata

  

+

+++

Tintinnopsis lobiancoi

+

+

+

+

Keratella quadrata

 

+

++

+

K. cruciformis

 

+

 

+

Synchaeta baltica

+

++

+++

 

S. monopus

 

+++

  

S. curvata

 

++

  

Pleopsis polyphemoides

  

++

+

Bosmina coregoni

  

++

 

Evadne nordmanni

 

+

++

+

Acartia spp. n.

+

+

 

++

Acartia spp. cop.

+

  

+

Acartia spp. ad.

 

++

++

+

Eurytemora sp. n.

+

 

+

+

Eurytemora sp. cop.

  

+

 

Eurytemora sp. ad.

+

++

+

+

Temora longicornis n.

  

++

 

T. longicornis ad.

  

+

 

Limnocalanus macrurus n.

 

+

 

+

Polychaeta larvae

  

+

 

Lamellibranciata larvae

  

+

 
  1. Relative abundance is expressed as follows: (+++) = highly abundant; (++) = abundant; (+) = present in low numbers
  2. n. nauplius, cop. copepodite, ad. adult