2018-11-152018-11-151989Экология моря. - 1989. - Вып. 33https://repository.marine-research.ru/handle/299011/3935It is shown that the values of energy expenditures on mechanical work in the course of swimming depend on the information concerning the character of the movement speed changes in the active phase. The method of direct evaluation of energy expenditures as the loss of dry matter or carbon in copepods during vertical migrations makes it possible to evaluate correctly the coefficients of transformation of chemical energy into the mechanical work.ru