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Freshwater Zooplankton species differ in their consumption of live and dead algal cells when tested in situ. Using isotopicallylabeled living and heat-killed Chlamydomonas reinhardti as models for phytoplankton and detrital ses ton, respectively, we tested differential feeding on these foods by 3 rotifers and 2 microcrustaceans. Keratella cochlearis selectively feeds on ‘detrital’ materials while 2 sympatric rotifer species, Conochilus dossuarius and Kellicottia bostoniensis show no ability to discriminate between the living and dead foods. Both the copepod Diaptomus spatulocrenatus and a cladoceran, Bosmina sp., differentially consume living cells.
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Starkweather, P.L., Bogdan, K.G. (1980). Detrital Feeding in Natural Zooplankton Communities: Discrimination Between Live and Dead Algal Foods. 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_16
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