      Closed Access item Feeding and growth kinetics of the
planktotrophic larvae of the spionid polychaete Polydora ciliata
(Johnston)  Authors:Almeda, Rodrigo Pedersen, Troels Moller
Jakobsen, Hans Henrik Alcaraz, Miquel Calbet, Albert Hansen,
Benni Winding Keywords:Feeding, Functional response, Gross
growth efficiency, Growth, Polychaete larvae, Polydora ciliata
Issue Date:31-Dec-2009 Citation:Journal of Experimental Marine
Biology and Ecology 382(1) : 61-68(2009) Abstract:We studied the
effect of food concentration on the feeding and growth rates of
different larval developmental stages of the spionid polychaete
Polydora ciliata. We estimated larval feeding rates as a
function of food abundance by incubation experiments with two
different preys, presented separately, the cryptophyte
Rhodomonas salina (ESD = 9.7 µm) and the diatom T. weissflogii
(ESD = 12.9 µm). Additionally, we determined larval growth rates
and gross growth efficiencies (GGE) as a function of R. salina
concentration. P. ciliata larvae ex