The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community
assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions shaping …

The oxic realms of freshwater and marine environments are zones of high prokaryotic
mortality. Lysis by viruses and predation by ciliated and flagellated protists result in the …

Zooplankton are major primary consumers and predators in most aquatic ecosystems. They
exhibit tremendous diversity of traits, ecological strategies and, consequently, impacts on …

Our limited intuition of the small‐scale world of the plankton has biased the way we describe
and understand ocean ecology. Classical approaches consider fluxes of energy and matter …

Predation by bacterivorous protists in aquatic habitats can influence the morphological
structure, taxonomic composition and physiological status of bacterial communities. The …

Predation is a major mortality factor of planktonic bacteria and an important shaping force for
the phenotypic and taxonomic structure of bacterial communities. In this paper we:(1) …

The influence of grazing by a mixed assemblage of soil protozoa (seven flagellates and one
amoeba) on bacterial community structure was studied in soil microcosms amended with a …

Heterotrophic flagellates (HF) are known as most important grazers of bacteria in many
aquatic ecosystem. HF cannot be treated as a black box since HF generally contain a …

We studied the role of bacterial secondary metabolites in the context of grazing protection
against protozoans. A model system was used to examine the impact of violacein-producing …

Bacterial community composition was monitored in four shallow eutrophic lakes during one
year using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of PCR-amplified prokaryotic …