The impact of metazooplankton on the structure of the microbial food web in a shallow, hypertrophic lake.

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Cascading predation effects of Daphnia and copepods on microbial food web components (2003, background): “A positive correlation between copepod populations and the abundance of filamentous bacteria has been observed also in eutrophic shallow lakes (Jürgens & Jeppesen, 2000) and interpreted as a trophic cascade in which copepod predation on ciliates enhances HNF grazing pressure on bacteria and…”
Cladoceran and rotifer grazing on bacteria and phytoplankton in two shallow eutrophic lakes: in situ measurement with fluorescent microspheres (2005, background): “However, fish predation is known to affect grazer’s community composition as well as abundance and biomass and, therefore, control lower trophic levels (Christoffersen et al., 1993; Jürgens and Jeppesen, 2000).”
Biomagnification or biodilution of microcystins in aquatic foodwebs? Meta-analyses of laboratory and field studies (2012, background): “As microzooplankton (including dinoflagellates and ciliates) can successfully graze on toxic Microcystis (Davis and Gobler, 2011), which in turn are consumed by larger predatory zooplankton (Jürgens and Jeppesen, 2000; Zöllner et al., 2003), it is reasonable to assume that the”