Interspecific and intraspecific variations in egg hatching for British populations of the stoneflies Siphonoperla torrentium and Chloroperia tripunctata (Plecoptera: Chloroperiidae)

Freshwater Biology - Tập 20 Số 1 - Trang 11-18 - 1988
J. M. Elliott1
1Freshwater Biological Association, Windermere Laboratory. England

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SUMMARY 1. The objective was to compare variations in egg hatching between the two species (interspecific variations) and between populations of the same species (intraspecific variations). There were significant interspecific, but not intraspecific, differences in female size, adult life‐span, egg production, hatching success, incubation periods and hatching periods.2. The optimum temperature for hatching success within the range 3.8–22.1°C in the laboratory and the range over which at least 50% of the eggs hatched were lower for Chloroperia tripunctata (Scopoli) (8.5°C, 4.2–17.3°C) than for Siphonoperla torrentium (Pictet) (12.8°C, 6.1–19.4°C). Few eggs hatched at 22.r°C.3. The relationship between incubation period (d days) and water temperature (T°C) was given by: d=1219/T1.368 for S. torrentium, d=253/T0.459 for C. tripunctata. Both equations successfully predicted incubation periods for eggs placed in a stream. The period over which eggs hatched was much longer for C. tripunctata than for S. torrentium at all temperatures.4. The shorter incubation period (at r>5.6°C) and shorter hatching period for S. torrentium ensure that larvae of this species are already growing when eggs of C. tripunctata start to hatch, but the prolonged hatching period of the latter species ensures a long period of larval recruitment to the population. These differences in egg hatching may reduce competition between the two closely‐related species.

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Freshwater Biology

Tập 20 Số 1

11-18

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