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Rotifer life history strategies and evolution in freshwater plankton communities

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Evolutionary Ecology of Freshwater Animals

Part of the book series: EXS ((EXS,volume 82))

Summary

Rotifers play an important role in many freshwater plankton communities. The populations are controlled from “bottom-up” depending on different food quantities and qualities. This regulation, however, is also depending on characteristics of rotifer life histories. Rotifers are controlled from “top-down” by predators, especially by copepods, by instars of Chaoborus and by predatory rotifers. Mechanical interference by Daphnia is considered here as a special case of predation as the rotifers are mostly killed by this action. Different defense mechanisms are discussed. Simultaneously rotifer densities are controlled from “bottom-up.” Many species are generalists and feed in the same range of algae as other zooplankton. Specialists, however, feed on larger forms, e.g., dinoflagellates. As threshold food levels for rotifers are higher than those for cladocerans they are often outcompeted when food concentrations are lowered by the clearance activity of cladocerans. At the cost of higher food concentrations (high Ks-food levels) rotifers may exhibit high maximum growth rates (rmax) and short times for their population development. These abilities increase with rotifer body size and render rotifers susceptible to environmental fluctuations.

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