Phenotypic plasticity in defensive traits is an appropriate mechanism to cope with the
variable hazard of a frequently changing predator spectrum. In the animal kingdom these so …

Trait-based approaches are increasingly being used in aquatic ecology to elucidate how
environmental conditions affect community assembly. However, studies of zooplankton from …

The wheel animalcules, belonging to minor phylum Rotifera are the most important soft-
bodied invertebrate pseudocoelomates, bilaterally symmetrical, metazoan protostomes …

Studies of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) habitat use in their Hawaiian
breeding grounds have revealed that mother‐calf pairs favor shallow waters to avoid …

A distribuição nictemeral e sazonal do zooplâncton do estuário do Taperaçu eo efeito dos
parâmetros hidrológicos na dinâmica desses organismos foram estudadas nos meses de …

In the present study, we assessed the potential of dipterans as functional indicators of
extreme drought. Dipteran assemblages were sampled four times in 2014 and 2015 at 141 …

Diel horizontal migration (DHM) and diel vertical migration (DVM) of planktonic
microcrustaceans and invertebrate predators were studied simultaneously in a tropical …

Invertebrate predation on zooplankton was investigated in mesocosms in the shallow
tropical Lake Monte Alegre, São Paulo State, Brazil, in the summer of 1999. Two treatments …

The primary factor that governs the size and species composition of zooplankton is still a
controversial issue and temperature is considered the main factor responsible for latitudinal …

The effect of water transparency, dissolved oxygen concentration and the invertebrate
predator Chaoborus brasiliensis on the day–night vertical distribution of the copepod …