Lipid Accumulation Window
hypothesis: Step 1 - Conditions
allowing dormancy: suppose only copepods with > 50%
lipid content can enter
Integrated
Temperature
Integrated
Food
Fraction
lipid content
at end of CV
stage
0.0
0.5
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
At warmer temperature (or
higher cumulative T) the copepods develop proportionally faster than they
grow, thus they are unable to accumulate as high a % of lipids.
The % of ingested food that
can be accumulated increases as the concentration of food increases
(Hakanson 1984 L+O).