Intrazooplankton Predation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• General Articles.
• Effects of invertebrate predation on the seasonal succession of a zooplankton community: a two year study in Lake Aydat, France.
• Invertebrate zooplankton predator composition and diversity in tropical lentic waters.
• A comparison between predation effects on zooplankton communities by Neomysis and Chaoborus.
• Cyclomorphosis in Daphnia: an adaptation to avoid invertebrate predation.
• Progress towards characterization of a predator/prey kairomone: Daphnia pulex and Chaoborus americanus.
• Flatworms.
• Typhloplanid flatworms (Mesostoma and related genera): Mechanisms of predation and evidence that they structure aquatic invertebrate communities.
• A laboratory study of the feeding of Mesostoma lingua (Schmidt) (Turbellaria: Neorhabdocoela) on Daphnia magna Straus at four different temperatures.
• Predation on and by pelagic Turbellaria in some lakes in Brazil.
• Laboratory observations on the vertical distribution of a tropical pelagic flatworm (Mesostoma sp.) in relation to satiation.
• Branchiopoda.
• The feeding behaviour of Leptodora kindti and its impact on the zooplankton community of Neusiedler See (Austria).
• On predatory tendencies in the feeding ecology of the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus proboscideus (Frauenfeld, 1873) (Crustacea: Anostraca).
• Copepods.
• Estimating predation risk in zooplankton communities: the importance of vertical overlap.
• An analysis of prey selection by Mesocyclops edax.
• Predation on Ceriodaphnia cornuta and Brachionus calyciflorus by two Mesocyclops species coexisting in Barra Bonita reservoir (SP, Brazil).
• Some aspects of vulnerability to cyclopoid predation of zooplankton prey individuals.
• Spatial overlap of a predatory copepod, Acanthocyclops robustus, and its prey in a shallow eutrophic lake.
• Coexistence of the predatory cyclopoids Acanthocyclops robustus (Sars) and Mesocyclops leuckarti (Claus) in a small eutrophic lake.
• Chaoborus.
• Creating conditions for changes in prey community structure by Chaoborus spp. in a lake in Sweden.
• Chaoborus predation and zooplankton community structure in a rotifer-dominated lake.
• Water Mites.
• Can water mites control populations of planktonic Cladocera?.
• Epilogue.
• Summary of final round-table discussion on current issues in research on freshwater invertebrate predation.