If anyone can tell me (BEFORE Nov 27th, and with references I can cite) what range of light intensity (in lux) Gammarus setosus can tolerate, OR what the range of light intensity is in the natural habitat of G. setosus, OR even just what ranges of light intensities exist in the fucking ocean, I will give you one million dollars.*
Seriously. I can find this information nowhere. And I need it real real bad.
*I will give you no actual money. But I'll probably make you some dang good cookies and get them to you fresh and tasty wherever you may be.
"Wine is sunlight, held together by water" - Galielo Galilei
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Come on Katie that kind of info is child's play. Its so easy in fact i'm not even gonna give you an answer!
T
That's fricken Francoise, Tim.
According to Dr. Google and Nurse Wikipedia:
"Gammarus setosus can survive in most intensities of light that will occur in their natural environment but are more active at night or in the darker, lower light intensity of the sea floor"
If you google "gamamrus setosus" a bunch of academic articles pop up through Ingenta and JSTOR. You can probably access them through the university library.
You owe me a bottle of wine now (in May).
Yep, I've seen what Wiki has to say, and I've read through probably 50 academic journals, but that is not the information I am looking for. What I need is a specific measurement, in lux, of light intensity ranges in the natural habitat of the little fucker. In the lab we exposed it to 50 lux, 600 lux, and 1200 lux, and observed it's prefrences for regions of lower light intensities. So if you can find a source I can cite that has a lux measurement for complex macroalgae in the benthic region of the water column, then yes, I'll give you a bottle of wine. In May.
For now I'll just make you watch me drink one :)
Ha ha - if you try and google Gammarus Setosus lux, then your blog is the top entry.
I found an academic paper here: http://www.littlersworks.net/reprints/Littler1982d.pdf
It has some values in it and also references "King and Schramm 1976, and Arnold and Murray 1980" as a source of information on 'the range of light saturation documented for intertidal macroalgae'.
No idea if this is useful to you or not. But good luck!
Em
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Only 50 articles? Did you try this one: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x114q876357644vh/ ?
(and if it works, you owe me a case of wine. In May.)
luxy gamma huh?!?!
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