Crustacean zooplankton (Cladocera, Copepoda) distribution patterns, community composition and response to altitude, temperature, pH and surface area were studied in 17 fishless subarctic ponds in the ...

A seven-year experiment shows that pond communities bear the imprint of random events in their past, such as the order in which species were introduced into the ponds. This finding locates one of the ...

In graduate school, Jon Chase worked in a lab that set up small pond ecosystems in order to run experiments on species interactions and food webs. "And because this was an experimental science, we ...

To larger aquatic creatures, copepods are either food or something your food eats. Of the thousands of species of the tiny zooplankton -- ranging from docile algae eaters, to vicious carnivores known ...