Planktonic cyclopoids - victims or predators?

Abstract

As a part of the prohject BIOPOOL (Eurocores/Eurodiversity) we have created 20 small pools in inundation area of small stream Libechovka. As a part of the colonisation survey, we have conducted an experiment to ecaluate an effect of invertebrate predators (Chaoborus, Cyclops) on Daphnia populations.

Keywords

• zooplankton
• vernal pools
• temorary pools
• dispersion
• colonisation
• Copepoda
• Cladocera
• predation
• experiment