Rotifera VII: Proceedings of the Seventh Rofifer Symposium, held in Mikołajki, Poland, 6–11 June 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
One hundred years of Polish rotiferology — scientists and their work....Pages 1-14
Dispersal-limited Zooplankton distribution and community composition in new ponds....Pages 15-20
Rotifer occurrence in relation to age, depth and trophic state of quarry lakes....Pages 21-28
Rotifers from the Canadian High Arctic (Devon Island, Northwest Territories)....Pages 29-34
Additions to the rotifer fauna of south-east Asia: new and rare species from north-east Thailand....Pages 35-45
Associations of planktonic and periphytic rotifers in a Malaysian estuary and two nearby ponds....Pages 47-56
Rotifer assemblages in the Neva Bay, Russia: principles of formation, present state and perspectives....Pages 57-62
Periphytic rotifer communities of an Australian seasonal floodplain pool....Pages 63-67
Factors affecting the distribution of benthic and littoral rotifers in a large marine lagoon, together with the description of a new species....Pages 69-74
Distribution and ecology of rotifer communities in high-altitude alpine sites — a multivariate approach 1....Pages 75-89
Rotatory apparatus in Bdelloids....Pages 91-98
Numerical taxonomic studies of the genus Notholca ....Pages 99-104
Mating behavior and mate recognition pheromone blocking of male receptors in Brachionus plicatilis Müller (Rotifera)....Pages 105-110
Behavioral reproductive isolation among sympatric strains of Brachionus plicatilis Müller 1786: insights into the status of this taxonomic species....Pages 111-119
Nomenclatural consequences of some recent studies on Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera, Brachionidae)....Pages 121-122
Localization and neuroanatomy of catecholaminergic neurons in some rotifer species....Pages 123-128
SEM of internal structures of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera)....Pages 129-132
Larval metamorphosis in sessile rotifers....Pages 133-138
Influence of temperature on morphological variation in populations of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in Rybnik Reservoir....Pages 139-146
Oxygen consumption rate in rotifers....Pages 147-156
Growth pattern of four strains of a Bdelloid rotifer species: egg size and numbers....Pages 157-163
Egg size in relation to body size in rotifers: an indication of reproductive strategy?....Pages 165-170
Enzyme activity measurements on isolated organs of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera)....Pages 171-174
Physiological adaptations in the survival of rotifers ( Brachiounus plicatilis , O. F. Müller) at low temperatures....Pages 175-183
Effect of diets containing γ-linolenic acid on n-6 highly unsaturated fatty acid content of rotifer ( Brachionus plicatilis )....Pages 185-190
Near-coronal fluid flow patterns and food cell manipulation in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 191-195
Modification of the swimming behaviour of Brachionus calyciflorus (Pallas) according to food environment and individual nutritive state....Pages 197-204
Habitat-specific predation susceptibilities of a littoral rotifer to two invertebrate predators....Pages 205-211
Predatory behavior of Cupelopagis vorax (Rotifera; Collothecacea; Atrochidae) on protozoan prey....Pages 213-217
Feeding biology of two brachionid rotifers: Brachionus quadridentatus and Brachionus plicatilis ....Pages 219-221
Resting eggs of the marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller: development, and effect of irradiation on hatching....Pages 223-229
Rotifers in ecotoxicology: a review....Pages 231-247
Relative importance of the trophic and direct pathways on PCB contamination in the rotifer species Brachionus calyciflorus (Pallas)....Pages 249-257
The conservation value of English urban ponds in terms of their rotifer fauna....Pages 259-266
Relation to habitat in rotifers....Pages 267-278
Disturbance and population dynamics of rotifers in bed sediments....Pages 279-290
Population dynamics of oxiclinal species in lake Arcas-2 (Spain)....Pages 291-301
Temporal and vertical distribution of planktonic rotifers in a meromictic crater lake, Lake Nyahirya (Western Uganda)....Pages 303-312
Dominant rotifers of Võrtsjärv (Estonia)....Pages 313-317
Rotifers of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa....Pages 319-324
Comparison of rotifer communities in Maranhão Reservoir (Portugal) before its complete emptying and on refilling....Pages 325-332
The effect of lake fertilisation on the rotifers of Seathwaite Tarn, an acidified lake in the English Lake District....Pages 333-340
Inter-annual variation of rotifer biomass in two coastal lagoons of the Southern Baltic differing by degree of trophy....Pages 341-344
Induction of diapausing amictic eggs in Synchaeta pectinata ....Pages 345-350
The genus Polyarthra in Lake Peipsi....Pages 351-357
Effects of fluctuating temperatures on the population dynamics of Hexarthra bulgarica (Wiszniewski) from high mountain lakes in Sierra Nevada (Spain)....Pages 359-363
Mictic patterns of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller in small ponds....Pages 365-371
Desiccation survival of the eggs of the rotifer Adineta vaga (Davis, 1873)....Pages 373-375
Epizoic mode of life in Brachionus rubens Ehrenberg as a deterrent against predation by Asplanchna intermedia Hudson....Pages 377-380
Influence of the filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii on population growth and reproductive pattern of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus ....Pages 381-386
Effects of interference and exploitative competition from large-bodied cladocerans on rotifer community structure....Pages 387-393
Use of swimming speed and egg ratio as predictors of the status of rotifer cultures in aquaculture....Pages 395-398
Population growth dynamics of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis cultured in non-limiting food condition....Pages 399-405