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Adults of Oithona nana feed on copepod nauplii of 110‐ µ m body length. An Ivlev curve is used to describe feeding as a function of prey density. At natural prey densities, carnivorous feeding would provide only 25% of its metabolic requirements. Very low respiration rate and the nature of the diet are important considerations in assessing the ecological effect of this abundant species.
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Richard S. Lampitt (1978) studied this question.
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