Trait-based research on Rotifera: The holy grail or just messy?

U Obertegger, RL Wallace - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, trait-based research on plankton has gained interest because of its potential
to uncover general roles in ecology. While trait categories for phytoplankton and …

Rotifers (Rotifera: Monogononta) associated with littoral macrophyte habitats in flooded neotropical ponds: a qualitative study

MJ Pardo, J Scott-Frías, LM Soto, G Stamou… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rotifers represent an important component of freshwater zooplankton. The high richness of
taxa, particularly in littoral macrophyte zones of water bodies in tropical and subtropical flood …

Impacts of hypoxia and planktivory on crustacean and rotifer diel vertical and horizontal migration behaviors

AG Schmidt, IM Anderson, R Bruel, RJ Chapina… - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
Zooplankton perform daily migrations between pelagic surface waters, where they feed at
night, and either deeper waters (diel vertical migration, DVM) or littoral areas (diel horizontal …

Improving Aquatic Biodiversity Estimates in Africa: Rotifers of Angola and Ghana

R Smolak, PD Brown, RN Walsmith, JV Ríos-Arana… - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Afrotropical inland waters are highly diverse ecosystems; however, they remain poorly
studied, especially for rotifers. Here, we contributed to the knowledge of the rotifer species …