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Aspects of the Feeding Behavior and Trophic Ecology of Suspension-Feeding Rotifers

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Rotatoria

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 1))

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While the evidence is not yet adequate to provide a general assessment of rotifer feeding in the dynamics of planktonic communities, there can be no question but that the feeding biology of this group is a rich and exciting field for freshwater ecologists and natural historians. Two recent reviews, those of Dumont (1977) and Pourriot (1977), provide ample evidence for this assertion, together summarizing some 70 years of research on rotifer feeding behavior. This paper is a further discussion of certain aspects of the feeding behavior and feeding ecology of free-swimming, suspension-feeding rotifers. I will deliberately omit consideration of sessile or predacious genera since the feeding biology of these forms has been reviewed very recently; sessile rotifers are examined by Wallace (1980) and the predacious genus Asplanchna by Gilbert (1979).

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Starkweather, P.L. (1980). Aspects of the Feeding Behavior and Trophic Ecology of Suspension-Feeding Rotifers. In: Dumont, H.J., Green, J. (eds) Rotatoria. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9209-2_13

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