At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant
eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of …

Evidence is provided for the first time that at least part of the egg bank of the southern African
fairy shrimp Branchipodopsis wolfi is dispersed over short distances by wind. A total of 423 …

Biodiversity is a characteristic of nature and a property of living systems of being distinct
(Solbrig 1994; Heywood 1995). It has been defined variously to emphasise the variability at …

Anostracan crustacean eggs were collected from various materials leaving and entering
branchiopod habitats. The eggs were cultured from allochthonous dust and mud, bird faeces …

Rock pools inarguably exhibit a number of characteristics which make them attractive as a
model system in ecological and evolutionary research. They are usually small, pristine …

Ecological and evolutionary processes in temporary rock pools operate within constraints
imposed by their hydrologic regimes. These shallow pools flood when seasonal rains …

Rock pools are small eroded depressions that occur in a matrix of bedrock. Despite their
size, they support diverse aquatic invertebrate communities. Hydroperiod is an important …

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CHAPTER TEN By wind, wings or water: body size, dispersal and range size in aquatic …

We compared dispersal rates and patterns using both spatial genetic structure as well as
direct measures of dispersal in Branchipodopsis wolfi, a freshwater anostracan inhabiting …

Recent findings suggest a convergence of time scales between ecological and evolutionary
processes which is usually explained in terms of rapid micro evolution resulting in evolution …