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Body size-related constraints on the movement behaviour of the arctic notostracan Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1973) under laboratory conditions

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The movement behaviour of individuals has long been acknowledged as a key determinant of species distribution in space and time. Information on benthic macroinvertebrates from aquatic habitats are still scant, however, and for polar species are virtually nonexistent. Here, the influence of body size on the movement behaviour of the arctic notostracan Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas) was examined under resource-free laboratory conditions. The mean step length, total path length and average speed were determined for specimens varying in body dry mass by six orders of magnitude. The scale-independent fractal dimension D was used to quantify movement path tortuosity. Among the different movement metrics considered, the body size of specimens scaled significantly only with path tortuosity; specifically, a negative relationship with a breakpoint was observed between individual body masses and the D values of the respective movement paths. The results are discussed considering similar results obtained for benthic crustaceans from temperate habitats. Additionally, their implications for future investigations explicitly considering temperature effects on movement behaviour are briefly considered.

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Permits to carry out field research in Ny-Ålesund delivered by the Governor of Svalbard ref. 2014/00729-2 a.512 (Fieldwork 2014, RIS-ID 10011) to V. P. are acknowledged. This study was supported by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Confucio Institute—SAPIENZA Università di Roma, 6° Comunità Montana del Velino. The help and co-operation of the officers and persons of the CNR D.T.A. Department and Italian Arctic Base “Dirigibile Italia” (in the person of E. Brugnoli, V. Vitale, A. Viola and E. Liberatori) is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks also to the staff of Kings Bay Marine Laboratory and to Steve Coulson for his useful advices. Financial support to G. M. was provided by FUR 2014–2015 funds. Movement analyses were carried out using the infrastructures of the Biodiversity Organization and Ecosystem Functioning (BIOforIU)—node1 UNISALENTO—PON project code PONa3_00025. The authors thank Giuseppe Alfonso for insightful discussions on the ecology and biology of notostracans, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments that greatly improved an early version of the manuscript. This is contribution number 1 of the BIOforIU facility “Laboratorio studi su metabolismo e comportamento organismi acquatici” and is dedicated to Sofia Mancinelli, thy eternal summer shall not fade.

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Mancinelli, G., Pasquali, V. Body size-related constraints on the movement behaviour of the arctic notostracan Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1973) under laboratory conditions. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 27 (Suppl 1), 207–215 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-016-0512-z

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