
%0 Journal Article
%A Kobayashi, T 
%T Body lengths and maximum gut food-particle sizes of the dominant cladocerans and calanoid copepods in Wallerawang Reservoir, New South Wales
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1991/08/01
%V 42
%N 4
%P 399-408
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9910399
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9910399 
%X Body length influences the maximum gut food-particle size of the dominant cladocerans and calanoid copepods in Wallerawang Reservoir. For the Wallerawang cladocerans, a linear regression equation, similar to the Northern Hemisphere equivalent, relates food-particle and body sizes. The larger cladoceran species ingest larger food particles than do the smaller species they displace, thus seemingly supporting the size-efficiency hypothesis. On the other hand, the competitive ability of the Wallerawang calanoid copepods cannot be explained simply by the observed differences in the upper food-particle size limit of these species. 
