A model is proposed which consists of 24 sequential statements which describe step by step
the seasonal events which occur in the phytoplankton and zooplankton of an …

The ecology of world vegetation is described in numer all of the drafting and photographic
work. They have ous books and journals, but these are usually very spe spent many hours …

As one of the most quantitative of ecological subdisciplines, resource competition is an
important, central area of ecology. Recently research into this area has increased …

For freshwater pelagic ecosystems, the biodiversity and cascading trophic interaction
theories both predict that decreased piscivore populations will result in direct, short—term (a …

The direct and indirect effect of suspended clay on the population dynamics of several
species of planktonic rotifers and cladocerans were investigated using long—term …

Despite the ubiquity of dormancy among invertebrates, the demographic ties between the
active and dormant stages remain largely unexplored in most systems. Nevertheless …

For the last two decades predation has been considered to be a major driving force in
shaping zooplankton communities and in determining their density and structure. In early …

A cycle of zooplankton density that fluctuated in phase with the moon was observed
throughout 1982—1983 in Cahora Bassa Reservoir on the lower Zambezi, in southeastern …

Debates over the role of competition in natural communities often consider two broad
alternatives. The first view, based on the Lotka Volterra model, is that populations are …

Analysis of zooplankton communities in over 1,100 water bodies spanning the Western
Hemisphere (77° S, 81° N latitude) revealed latitudinal patterns in cladoceran body size and …