Understanding of the global significance of Australia's biodiversity is also on the increase.
This comprehensive review of the endemism of Australia's plants and animals shows that a …

Rotifera is a Phylum of primary freshwater Metazoa containing two major groups: the
heterogonic Monogononta and the exclusively parthenogenetic Bdelloidea. Monogononta …

Background Biogeographical and macroecological principles are derived from patterns of
distribution in large organisms, whereas microscopic ones have often been considered …

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 …

Understanding the relationship between the zooplankton distribution and salinity may
provide key information to understand ecosystem function under the condition of a global …

We confront patterns in the chorology and diversity of freshwater and limnoterrestrial
Rotifera with predictions following from the recently revived ubiquity theorem on the …

Background Bdelloid rotifers are micro-invertebrates distributed worldwide, from temperate
latitudes to the most extreme areas of the planet like Antarctica or the Atacama Desert. They …

The taxonomic uncertainty surrounding cryptic species complexes has traditionally been
resolved using lengthy experimental approaches, while, since the advent of PCR based …

Considering the ongoing loss of aquatic habitats, anthropogenic ponds are gaining
importance as substitute habitats. It is therefore important to assess their functioning in …

Rotifers are one of the most important functional groups in lentic freshwaters, and mainly
structured by predation or competition from crustaceans and food availability from …