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Biomass Turnover, Energy Balance, And Interpopulation Variation In The Stream Limpet, Ferrissia Rivularis (Say), With Special Reference To Respiration, Growth, And Fecundity, Albert Burky

Albert J. Burky

This investigation extends from 1965 through 1968 and involves 42,926 individual measurements on 19,479 limpets from populations of F. rivularis in the Canandaigua Outlet at Alloway, New York (AL)* and in Black Creek at Cleveland, New York (BC)*, with some comparative results from a population in Chittenango Creek at Cazenovia, New York (CC)*. These localities are located in the Seneca-Clyde-Oneida drainage system which flows by way of the Oswego River into Lake Ontario. For populations at AL (eutrophic environment) and BC (mesotrophic environment) variations in life-cycle, accompanied by marked differences in fecundity and biomass turnover rates (growth and egg reproduction), …