Phytoplankton is confronted with a variable assemblage of zooplankton grazers that create a
strong selection pressure for traits that reduce mortality. Phytoplankton is, however, also …

Climate change interacts with local processes to threaten biodiversity by disrupting the
complex network of ecological interactions. While changes in network interactions drastically …

In recent years, trait-based research on plankton has gained interest because of its potential
to uncover general roles in ecology. While trait categories for phytoplankton and …

The concept of ecological interaction networks has been widely used in fundamental
ecology in the last two decades and has progressively infused in a diverse array of applied …

There is a growing consensus that traits offer a powerful way to examine the relationship
between the environment, organismal strategies, species interactions, and ecological …

Predation plays a role in preventing the evolution of ever more complicated sexual displays,
because such displays often increase an individual's predation risk. Sexual selection theory …

It is well known that functional diversity strongly affects ecosystem functioning. However,
even in rather simple model communities consisting of only two or, at best, three trophic …

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 …

The objectives of this review were to synthesize the community structure of phytoplankton
and the role of atelomix in the phytoplankton dynamics in Ethiopian highland lakes …

Copepods have been known to be able to cause an increase in phytoplankton through
trophic cascades, as copepods consume heterotrophic protists that feed on phytoplankton …