This chapter provides an overview of the biology of waterfleas of the genus Daphnia. It
describes basic aspects of individual physiology and nutrition, including some remarks …

Alpine regions of the Mediterranean realm are among the most climatically sensitive areas
in the world. Thus, alpine wetlands from the southern Iberian Peninsula, in the westernmost …

Although epibiosis in Crustacea has been well known for a long time, only during recen
decades these associations have been considered from various aspects: physiological …

Recent anthropogenic climate change and the exponential increase over the past few
decades of Saharan dust deposition, containing ecologically important inputs of phosphorus …

In natural host populations, parasitism is considered to be omnipresent and to play an
important role in sha** host life history and population dynamics. Here, we study …

A combination of microfossil assemblages, abundance of fossil ephippia and mean body
size provides the longest paleoclimatic reconstruction based on cladoceran subfossils in the …

Anthropogenic climate change and the recent increase of Saharan dust deposition has had
substantial effects on Mediterranean alpine regions. We examined changes in diatom …

Microparasites and epibionts have important implications for the ecology and evolution of
their zooplankton host populations. Many parasites and epibionts produce resistant spores …

We investigated temporal and spatial patterns of distribution in two peritrich ciliates (ie
Zoothamnium intermedium and Epistylis sp.) living as epibionts on calanoid copepods (ie …

A short core was collected in Río Seco Lake, an alpine and oligotrophic lake located in the
Sierra Nevada Mountains (in the southeast region of Spain) to determine the algal group …