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  • 1
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Oxford BSL : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Freshwater biology 35 (1996), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2427
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: 1. This paper describes the effects of differences in food quantity and quality on selected life history traits of Ceriodaphnia pulchella. Animals were fed with four concentrations of two green algae, Scenedesmus obliquus and Chlamydomonas globosa, given separately as well as in a 1 : 1 mixture.2. In most cases growth, reproduction and condition of the animals and consequently the rate of population increase, r, increased with food concentration. Life history parameters of animals raised on S. obliquus were lowest, whereas no significant differences were found between animals fed with C. globosa and with the mixture of the two algal species.3. In contrast to the large effects of food quantity and quality found in the laboratory, an analysis of the population dynamics of C. pulchella in Lake Tjeukemeer showed that the effect of changes in food conditions during the growing season of this species was limited, although overall food levels seemed to be poor throughout the year.4. Changes in the birth rate of the population are mainly governed by changes in temperature, and possibly by changes in the densities of the invertebrate predator Leptodora kindtii.
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  • 2
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Freshwater biology 48 (2003), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2427
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: 1. We performed a mesocosm experiment to investigate the structuring and cascading effects of two predominant crustacean mesozooplankton groups on microbial food web components. The natural summer plankton community of a mesotrophic lake was exposed to density gradients of Daphnia and copepods. Regression analysis was used to reveal top–down impacts of mesozooplankton on protists and bacteria after days 9 and 15.2. Selective grazing by copepods caused a clear trophic cascade via ciliates to nanoplankton. Medium-sized (20–40 μm) ciliates (mainly Oligotrichida) were particularly negatively affected by copepods whereas nanociliates (mainly Prostomatida) became more abundant. Phototrophic and heterotrophic nanoflagellates increased significantly with increasing copepod biomass, which we interpret as an indirect response to reduced grazing pressure from the medium-sized ciliates.3. In Daphnia-treatments, ciliates of all size classes as well as nanoflagellates were reduced directly but the overall predation effect became most strongly visible after 15 days at higher Daphnia biomass.4. The response of bacterioplankton involved only modest changes in bacterial biomass and cell-size distribution along the zooplankton gradients. Increasing zooplankton biomass resulted either in a reduction (with Daphnia) or in an increase (with copepods) of bacterial biovolume, activity and production. Patterns of bacterial diversity, as measured by polymerase chain reaction–denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR–DGGE), showed no distinct grouping after 9 days, whereas a clear treatment-coupled similarity clustering occurred after 15 days.5. The experiment demonstrated that zooplankton-mediated predatory interactions cascade down to the bacterial level, but also revealed that changes occurred rather slowly in this summer plankton community and were most pronounced with respect to bacterial activity and composition.
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  • 3
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Freshwater biology 45 (2000), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2427
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: 1. The effect of the addition of emulsions with different fatty acid composition to a semi-natural zooplankton community was studied in enclosures. 
2. The reactions of different taxa in the zooplankton community to the addition of the emulsions were different. The copepods showed almost no reaction, nor did the selective cladocerans (Bosmina) or rotifers (Synchaeta or Polyarthra). The non-selective filterfeeding cladocerans Daphnia and Ceriodaphnia, and the rotifer Keratella, showed responses to the addition of the emulsions. 
3. Keratella showed the highest density in the enclosures with high amounts of highly unsaturated fatty acids added, whereas both Daphnia and Ceriodaphnia reached the highest numbers in the enclosures where we added emulsions of saturated fatty acids only. 
4. Our results suggest that different taxa may be limited by different factors, even though they use similar food sources. Hence, we conclude that it is very difficult to generalize on the limiting factors in aquatic systems.
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  • 4
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    [s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd.
    Nature 398 (1999), S. 382-382 
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Quelle: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie , Medizin , Allgemeine Naturwissenschaft , Physik
    Notizen: [Auszug] It has long been known that the waterflea Daphnia hyalina exhibits diel vertical migration in the water column, but the chemical that triggers this behaviour has not been identified. We find that trimethylamine (TMA), which is a major component of the odour produced by decaying fish, induces ...
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  • 5
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Oecologia 103 (1995), S. 309-318 
    ISSN: 1432-1939
    Schlagwort(e): Coexistence ; Hybrid ; Competition ; Daphnia ; Hemispecific
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract I investigated the competitive relationships between two species of Daphnia, D. galeata and D. cucullata, and their interspecific hybrid. The term hemispecific competition was introduced to describe competition between parental species and hybrids. In eutrophic Tjeukemeer both parental species were found to compete with the hybrid, whereas competition between D. galeata and D. cucullata seemed limited. Although the effect of competition on life history traits of daphnids may be profound, the influence of the competitors on the seasonal dynamics of the Daphnia species seems limited.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1573-5125
    Schlagwort(e): carotenoids ; chlorophyll ; GC ; HPLC ; lipids
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract In this paper, the efficiency of pigment and fatty acid extraction from resistant algae using Scenedesmus obliquus as an example was examined. We found that adding quartz sand and solvent to freeze-dried algal material and subsequent extraction in an ultrasound bath for 90min at −4 °C resulted in excellent extraction of these compounds. This extraction method was compared with a method regularly used for extraction of fatty acids and pigments, i.e. addition of solvents to algal material with subsequent incubation. Our extraction using the ultrasound and sand method was about twice as efficient as this method for both pigments and fatty acids. The ultrasound method is simple, extracts over 90% of the different substances in one step and conserves the relationships of pigments and fatty acids. In addition, no alteration- or breakdown products were observed with the new method. Thus, this method allows accurate quantitative extraction of both pigments and fatty acids from Scenedesmus obliquus and other algae. The method was also been found to be as effective for Cryptomonas erosa (Cryptophyceae), Cyclotella meneghiniana (Bacillariophyceae), Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanophyceae), and Staurastrum paradoxum (Chlorophyceae, Desmidiaceae) and is thus applicable to a wide spectrum of algae.
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  • 7
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Aquatic ecology 31 (1997), S. 89-98 
    ISSN: 1573-5125
    Schlagwort(e): fish predation ; inducible defence ; interspecific hybridization
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract We studied the combined effect of fish kairomones and food conditions on the relative tail spine length (RTL) of five Daphnia taxa, and the interaction of these factors with the vertical distribution of the daphnids. The experiment was done in two large-scale indoor containers, the so-called plankton towers in Plön, Germany. We conducted a competition experiment in which food level and the presence of fish chemicals and later fish were varied. A strong response of RTL to fish kairomones (e.g., longer tail spines), significant differences in RTL between species, but no differences in RTL with water depth were found. Further, we observed that these Daphnia taxa produced a higher RTL only under high food conditions. This suggests that there is a cost related to the production of longer tail spines. In a preliminary study in lake Plußsee, we found that Daphnia had longer average RTL than in the towers. Further, we noted significant differences in RTL between the two sampling dates, which may be related to a lower food level. We also detected a strong inverse correlation between RTL and depth. We discuss the implications of these findings for the co-existence of co-occurring Daphnia species and their hybrids.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1573-5125
    Schlagwort(e): microcrustaceans ; Daphnia ; evolution ; interspecific hybridization ; molecular systematics ; aquatic ecology
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Cladoceran crustaceans are an important component of zooplankton in a wide range of freshwater habitats. Although the ecological characteristics of several cladoceran species have been well studied, biogeographical studies have been hampered by problematic taxonomic affiliations. However, recently developed molecular techniques, provide a powerful tool to subject aquatic taxa to comparative analyses. Here we highlight recent molecular approaches in aquatic ecology by presenting a simple method of DNA preparation and PCR amplification of the mitochondrial DNA (16S rDNA) in species from nine different families within the cladocera. On a broad taxonomic scale, sequence analysis of this mtDNA fragment has been used to produce the first molecular based phylogeny of the cladocera. This analysis clustered the cladoceran families in a fashion similar to that suggested by previous systematic classifications. In a more detailed analysis of the family Daphniidae, nuclear randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), mitochondrial restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and morphological analyses were combined to identify species and interspecific hybrids within the Daphnia galeata species complex across 50 lakes in 13 European countries and one lake in Africa. The study revealed interspecific hybridization and backcrossing between some taxa (D. cucullata and D. galeata) to be widespread, and species and hybrids to frequently occur in sympatry. Genetic, as well as morphological information, suggests the occurrence of D. hyalina outside the Holarctic.
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  • 9
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Evolutionary ecology 11 (1997), S. 439-450 
    ISSN: 1573-8477
    Schlagwort(e): food ; life history ; predation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Variation in offspring size and number has been described for a wide range of organisms. Many theoretical models predict that in a given environment, the production of one single offspring size would yield the highest parental fitness. In most planktonic cladocerans, however, offspring size has been found to increase with size and age of the mother, and as individuals of variable size often co-occur within a population, offspring of variable sizes can be produced simultaneously. In this study, I investigated the relationship between age of the mother and size of her offspring to assess at what age of the mother the optimal offspring size was produced. Optimal offspring size was defined as that size of the offspring yielding the highest parental fitness, which translates to a definition of optimal offspring size as the one having the highest juvenile fitness per unit effort put in these juveniles. I observed that the youngest females produced offspring with the highest juvenile fitness per unit effort, and hence concluded that offspring produced by these females were of optimal size. Larger offspring produced by older females were estimated to yield only 70% of the potential fitness of optimally sized offspring.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Schlagwort(e): microcrustacean zooplankton ; tropical limnology ; biomass ; production ; empirical relationships
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Production, biomass and productivity of the microcrustacean zooplanktonpopulations of three low-land reservoirs, Tissawewa (eutrophic), Ridiyagama(moderately eutrophic), and Muruthawela (mesotrophic) in South-east SriLanka were studied. The temporal variation of zooplankton production wasstudied in Tissawewa on basis of fortnightly sampling on five fixed samplingstations for 2 years. Zooplankton production was relatively high, mainlybecause of high copepod production predominantly realised due to twocalanoid copepods, Phyllodiaptomus annae and Heliodiaptomus viduus. Abouthalf of the copepod production was contributed by the naupliar instarstages, whereas the contribution of the eggs was generally much smaller(〈20%). In contrast, the cladoceran production consisted for ca50–70% of egg production. The results of this study werecompared with those from more than twenty other tropical and subtropicalwaterbodies reported in the literature by deriving empirical relationshipsbetween mean phytoplankton biomass and mean zooplankton biomass andproduction. Mean zooplankton biomass and annual zooplankton production werefound to be positively related to mean phytoplankton biomass, and meanphytoplankton biomass proved to be a good predictor of mean zooplanktonbiomass (r2 = 0.58) and a moderate good predictor ofannual zooplankton production (r2 = 0.43). However,the relationships between the mean phytoplankton biomass and zooplankton P/Bwere not significant neither for small-bodied and large-bodied cladoceransnor for copepods.
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