Hot arid and semi-arid zones are characterized by an abundance of temporary ponds. Most
of these depend on rain for their existence. These habitats are distinguished by fluctuating …

Branchinecta lindahli is a broadly distributed fairy shrimp, reported from a range of
temporary wetland habitat types in arid western North America. This species' eggs hatch …

The potential of the larvae of the freshwater anostracan crustacean Thamnocephalus
platyurus has been evaluated as an alternative to those of the related species …

During desert locust plagues large amounts of insecticides are used for control operations.
Drift from these treatments and accidental overspraying may contaminate small surface …

This report is one of the outputs of the Wetland Health and Importance (WHI) research
programme which was funded by the Water Research Commission. The WHI represents …

Freshwater Anostraca offer a potential for a variety of technical applications. These include
production in aquaculture facilities or harvesting from natural reserves of cysts or biomass …

In this study the usefulness of small-volume rapid aquatic toxicity tests (microbiotests) as
environmental monitoring devices is reviewed. The individual tests are evaluated and a test …

Two micronized waste products were evaluated in a closed recirculation system for their
suitability to replace a costly die of live algae in the culture of the Sudanese fairy shrimp …

Studies of temperature effects on morphology in Spinicaudata have focused on length, with
no data on shape. To fill this gap, size and shape variability in response to temperature …

Determining the composition of zooplankton in endorheic pans can be challenging, and live
sampling of these microcrustaceans does not give a true indication of their species diversity …