Healthy river ecosystems can provide fundamental ecological services for human survival
and social development. However, previous studies that have sought to assess river …

Colombia is a global biodiversity hotspot, yet its zooplankton fauna remains poorly explored.
In Colombian inland waters, 253 species of rotifers, 119 cladocerans and 82 copepods (not …

Abstract The Magdalena River in Colombia is one of the world's largest (discharge= 7100
m3 s− 1) tropical rivers, hosting> 170 aquatic vertebrate species. However, concise …

Extreme climatic events are considered one of the main consequences of climate change. In
the Pampas region, Argentina, an intensification of rainfall is expected during the periods of …

Healthy plankton communities are the foundation of many freshwater food webs. Their
biodiversity is often used to directly reflect the health of the rivers. Globally, river ecosystem …

Based on the revision of available literature on the Colombian Cladocera (Crustacea:
Branchiopoda), we present an annotated checklist, with taxonomical comments for all taxa …

Mediterranean wetlands represent unique repositories of biodiversity, but these ecosystems
are increasingly threatened by human-induced habitat loss. Seventy percent of Greek …

Cladocerans are one of the most abundant groups of zooplankton that serves as food for
fishes and as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. This paper updates the diversity and …

Nine species of cladocerans are newly recorded from the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
Magdalena Department and of these, five of them are new to Colombia (Dunhevedia crassa …

The zooplankton community was studied in four Mediterranean reservoirs to assess the
relative importance of environmental factors as determinants of zooplankton dynamic in the …