Browsing by Subject "Dormancy"

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Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience

Pinceel, Tom; Brendonck, Luc; Buschke, Falko; Weckx, Margo; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram (BioMed Central, 2018)

Background: Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, ...
An empirical test of the impact of drying events and physical disturbance on wind erosion of zooplankton egg banks in temporary ponds

Pinceel, Tom; Brendonck, Luc; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram; Weckx, Margo (Springer, 2020)

Most temporary pond zooplankton species produce drought-resistant eggs that accumulate in the sediment and form an egg bank. When a pond dries and the egg bank is exposed, wind erodes eggs and wind action has been suggested ...