cladoceran


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cladoceran

any minute crustacean of the order Cladocera, with a laterally compressed carapace and large forked antennae used in swimming.
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At the same time, the cladoceran community became dominated by small-bodied B.
How are spring zooplankton and autumn zooplankton influenced by water temperature in a polymictic lake?
2002; Ohlberger, 2013), in zooplankton animals, such as cladocerans (Havens et al.
Environmental and zooplankton parameter changes during the drying of a saline shallow temporary lake in central Argentina/Cambios en el zooplancton y los parametros ambientales durante la desecacion de un lago salino temporal poco profundo en Argentina central/Mudancas nos parametros ambientais e do zooplancton durante a secagem de um lago temporario superficial salino no centro da Argentina
Age-0 goldeye primarily consumed calanoid copepods and cladocerans in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada (Donald and Kooyman, 1976).
Diet composition of age-0 fishes in created habitats of the Lower Missouri River
Ribeiro & Nuner (2008) reported that cladocerans and insect larvae were the major food items of Salminus brasiliensis post-larvae, being generalist, consuming a varied amount of food items and exhibiting tendency to different feeding specializations according to the developmental stage.
Influence of Eichhornia crassipes and Lemna sp. on the natural diet of Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000 in the initial stages/Influencia de Eichhornia crassipes e Lemna sp. na alimentacao natural de Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000 na fase inicial
Competition and niche partitioning in a floodplain ecosystem: a cladoceran community squeezed between fish and invertebrate predation.
Distribution and fluctuations of backswimmers (notonectidae) in a tropical shallow lake and predation on microcrustaceans/ Distribuicao e flutuacao de notonectideos (Notonectidae) em um lago tropical raso e a predacao sobre microcrustaceos
Cladoceran abundances exhibited two peaks with the first of the two consisting of primarily Daphnia retrocurva and Bosmina and the second Eubosmina and Diaphanasoma (Fig.
Leptodora kindtii population dynamics in the island region of western Lake Erie before and after the invasion of the predacious cladoceran Bythotrephes longimanus
Other notable groups include appendicularians and cladocerans which shows similar trends to these recorded in the zooplankton (Fig.
Cambios en abundancia y composicion de una comunidad de zooplancton arrecifal en el Caribe 25 anos despues
Cladoceran dominance was more evident during the high water period in Lago Catalao.
Abundancia y composicion isotopica de los microcrustaceos planctonicos en un lago de inundacion de la Amazonia Central: implicaciones para la dinamica trofica de la comunidad planctonica
Population dynamics of the tropical cladoceran Ceriodaphnia rigaudi Richard, 1894 (Crustacea: Anomopoda).
Influencia de la temperatura y tipo de alimento en la historia de vida de Ceriodaphnia cornuta Sars (1885) (Crustacea: Cladocera)
During the past decades two invasive species, Cercopagis pengoi and Evadne anonyx from the Ponto-Caspian region, have successfully established within the local cladoceran community (Ojaveer and Lumberg, 1995; Pollupuu et al.
Mean weight and total biomass of zooplankton as a core indicator of biodiversity of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: an example of the Gulf of Riga
Among the most common microscopic animals on the bluegill's menu are Daphnia, a type of Cladoceran (larger zooplankton often called water fleas) that can grow to several millimeters and swim in small hopping motions.
Optimal Foraging and bull 'gills
Successful larval rearing of many fishes has been reported including cladoceran species (Mollah et al.
Preliminary Studies on the Effect of Prey Length on Growth, Survival and Cannibalism of Larval Snakehead, Channa striatus (Bloch, 1793)
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