Ciliates represent a crucial link between phytoplankton and bacteria and mesozooplankton
in pelagic food webs, but little is known about the processes influencing the dynamics of …

Phytoplankton plays a key role as primary producers and mediating biogeochemical cycles
in the water column. The understanding of the temporal dynamic of primary grazers …

As grazers on picoplankton and nanoplankton, planktonic ciliates form an important link in
pelagic food webs. Ciliate communities may be controlled by predation by metazooplankton …

The importance of ciliates as herbivores and in biogeochemical cycles is increasingly
recognized. An opportunity to observe the potential consequences of zooplankton …

The spatial and temporal planktonic ciliate community structure of a large shallow eutrophic
lake was described in detail based on a monthly monitoring campaign over 2 years using …

Short-time spatio-temporal variations of planktonic ciliates in a eutrophic lake were
examined for evidence of diel vertical migration in relation to food supply (bacteria …

Protozoans are among the most important grazers of phytoplankton and remineralizers of
nutrients in marine and freshwater ecosystems, but less is known about the regulation of …

We analysed early spring protozooplankton peaks following winter stratification in two
different basins (northeast, NE; southwest, SW) of an artificially-divided bog lake Große …

With increasing primary productivity, ciliates may become the most important members of the
microbial loop and form a central linkage in the transformation of microbial production to …

An in situ bioassay experiment using Diacyclops bicuspidatus thomasi, Daphnia rosea,
Diaptomus novamexicanus, and Holopedium gibberum single‐species treatments was …