The abundance and biomass of ciliates are both strongly related to lake trophic status as
measured by chlorophyll a concentrations. Taxonomic replacements occur with increasing …

Stoffhaushalt ist die Summe des Stoff-und Energieumsatzes in einem Ökosystem. Die
Untersuchung des Stoffhaushaltes eines Gewässers geht von der Feststellung der gelösten …

Acquisition of phototrophy is widely distributed in the eukaryotic tree of life and can involve
algal endosymbiosis or plastid retention from green or red origins. Species with acquired …

To gain better insight into the importance of predator and resource control in New Zealand
lakes we surveyed the late summer trophic structure of 25 shallow South Island lakes with …

Assessing the extent to which changes in lacustrine biodiversity are affected by
anthropogenic or climatic forces requires extensive palaeolimnological data. We used high …

Zooplankton and water quality parameters were investigated at eight mesohaline stations in
the lower Chesapeake Bay and Elizabeth River from January through December 1994 to …

Ciliated protists are important components of marine and freshwater ecosystems. As such,
their usefulness as indicators of aquatic ecosystem health has been recognized. Two major …

The distribution of dissolved inorganic nutrients (nitrate+ nitrite, phosphate, and silicate) and
plankton (chlorophyll a and zooplankton biomass) was investigated in the Bocas del Toro …

To date, the family Plagiopylidae comprises four genera: Plagiopyla, Lechriopyla,
Pseudoplagiopyla and Paraplagiopyla. Despite its cosmopolitan distribution, only a few …

Systematic investigations into the temporal and spatial distribution, composition and
abundance of protozoa in two regions with different trophic levels in Chaohu Lake, a large …