Rotifer Symposium IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Rotifer Symposium, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 18–25, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Bruno Bērziņš in memoriam, 1909–1985....Pages 1-2
 Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in Africa....Pages 3-8
Distribution of rotifers in African fresh and inland saline waters....Pages 9-14
On species of genus Lepadella (Eurotatoria:Monogononta:Colurellidae) from North-Eastern India, with remarks on Indian taxa....Pages 15-22
The Rotifera of impoundments in Southeastern Australia....Pages 23-29
Tasmanian rotifera: Affinities with the Australian fauna....Pages 31-43
Intraspecific variability of Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 45-47
Rotifera from Northwestern Canada....Pages 49-56
Coexistence of rotifer ( Brachionus plicatilis ) clones in Soda Lake, Nevada....Pages 57-64
Rotifers from Turkey....Pages 65-73
Distribution of Brachionus species in Spanish mediterranean wetlands....Pages 75-81
Biometric variation in three strains of Brachionus plicatilis as a direct response to abiotic variables....Pages 83-89
Taxonomic and ecological notes on Hexarthra bulgarica from high mountain lakes and ponds in the Sierra Nevada (Spain)....Pages 91-95
Rotifer fauna of lakes and ponds over 2500 m above sea level in the Sierra Nevada, Spain, with description of a new subspecies....Pages 97-101
Rotifer fauna in the periphyton of Karst rivers in Croatia, Yugoslavia....Pages 103-105
Rotifer occurrence in relation to pH....Pages 107-116
Ecology of bdelloids: how to be successful....Pages 117-127
A bdelloid rotifer living as an inquiline in leaves of the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea ....Pages 129-133
Specificity of the α -tocopherol (Vitamin E) effect on lifespan and fecundity of bdelloid rotifers....Pages 135-139
Coloniality in the phylum Rotifera....Pages 141-155
 Conochilus in Lake Washington....Pages 157-162
The analysis of planktonic rotifer populations: A plea for long-term investigations....Pages 163-180
The influence of sampling strategy on the apparent population dynamics of planktonic rotifers....Pages 181-188
Abundance and distribution of pelagic rotifers in a cold, deep oligotrophic alpine lake (Königssee)....Pages 189-196
Population dynamics of hypolimnetic rotifers in the Pluss-see (North Germany)....Pages 197-201
Environmental factors influencing the vertical migration of planktonic rotifers in a hypereutrophic tarn....Pages 203-208
Comparative population dynamics of the rotifers Brachionus angularis and Keratella cochlearis ....Pages 209-213
Changes in the population dynamics of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse), Kellicottia longispina (Gosse) and Polyarthra vulgaris Carlin in a fertilized enclosure....Pages 215-219
The population dynamics of Keratella cochlearis in a hypereutrophic tarn and the possible impact of predation by young roach....Pages 221-227
Post-encounter vulnerability of some rotifer prey types to predation by the copepod Acanthocyclops robustus ....Pages 229-233
The Polyarthra escape from response: Defense against interference from Daphnia ....Pages 235-238
Rotifers, cladocerans and planktivorous fish: What are the major interactions?....Pages 239-243
Raising rotifers for use in aquaculture....Pages 245-255
Production and nutritional quality of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis fed marine Chlorella sp. at different cell densities....Pages 257-261
The use of marine yeast ( Candida sp.) and bakers’ yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) in combination with Chlorella sp. for mass culture of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 263-268
A consideration of why mass culture of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis with baker’s yeast is unstable....Pages 269-270
The components of feeding behavior in rotifers....Pages 271-281
Effect of feeding on the respiration rate of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 283-288
A laboratory study of feeding and assimilation in Euchlanis dilatata lucksiana ....Pages 289-296
The potential for population growth of Ascomorpha ecaudis ....Pages 297-301
Further nutritional studies on the marine rotifer Encentrum linnhei ....Pages 303-306
Planktonic rotifers and temperature....Pages 307-317
Effect of algal diet and temperature on the embryonic development time of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis in culture....Pages 319-322
Factors influencing the occurrence of males in natural populations of Synchaeta spp.....Pages 323-327
Fertilization and male fertility in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 329-334
Effect of incubation temperature on the hatching of rotifer resting eggs collected from sediments....Pages 335-338
Movements in rotifers: correlations of ultrastructure and behavior....Pages 339-359
Ultrastructure and histochemistry, of the stomach of Asplanchna sieboldi ....Pages 361-371
Neuropharmacology of rotifer feeding, oviposition, and anesthesia....Pages 373-373
Combined influences of particulate and dissolved factors in the toxicity of Microcystis aeruginosa (NRC-SS-17) to the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 375-378
A centrifugation method for measuring the relative density (specific gravity) of planktonic rotifers (Rotifera), with values for the relative density of Polyarthra major Burckhardt and Keratella cochlearis (Gosse)....Pages 379-381