Given their dormancy capability (long-term resistant stages) and their ability to colonise and
reproduce, microscopic aquatic animals have been suggested having cosmopolitan …

Understanding patterns and processes in biological diversity is a critical task given current
and rapid environmental change. Such knowledge is even more essential when the taxa …

In recent decades, the use of molecular techniques in rotifers has revealed the existence of
many cryptic species. Although strong competition is expected among cryptic species, these …

Knowledge and estimates of species richness at all scales are biased both by our
understanding of the evolutionary processes shaping diversity and by the methods used to …

Rotifera comprise about 2,000 species (Segers 2007) of microscopic animals, usually much
less than 1 mm in length, characterized by the presence of a ciliated corona and a muscular …

A major question in our understanding of eukaryotic biodiversity is whether small bodied
taxa have cosmopolitan distributions or consist of geographically localized cryptic taxa …

There has been a recent appreciation of the ecological impacts of zooplanktonic species
invasions. The North American brine shrimp Artemia franciscana is one such alien invader …

Abstract The Baas‐Becking's hypothesis, also known by the term 'everything is
everywhere'(EisE), states that microscopic organisms such as bacteria and protists are …

Abstract The Pan-African Neoproterozoic Korbiai-Gerf nappe complex in the extreme South
Eastern Desert of Egypt comprises dismembered ophiolite assemblages tectonically …

Since Darwin's time, waterbirds have been considered an important vector for the dispersal
of continental aquatic invertebrates. Bird movements have facilitated the worldwide invasion …