As the primary consumers in aquatic organisms, zooplankton play an important role ecosystems. It is valuable for management and researchers to have insight into responses of community patterns environmental factors. In this study, RDA variation partitioning analysis were adopted determine factors affecting abundance biomass, as well relative importance different The findings reveal that TN (tot...

1. It has been proposed that growth and reproduction of animals is frequently limited by multiple nutrients simultaneously. To improve our understanding of the consequences of multiple nutrient limitations (i .e. co-limitation) for the performance of animals, we conducted standardized popUlation growth experiments using an important aquatic consumer, the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. 2. We c...

Abstract Brachionus calyciflorus is a species complex consisting of four recently described species. Although several lines evidence support their status, hybridization between two the sibling B. s.s. and elevatus has been inferred from both field laboratory studies. In this study, we tested for existence prezygotic barriers these by performing types cross-fertilization experiments. ‘mate compe...