In recent years, trait-based research on plankton has gained interest because of its potential to uncover general roles in ecology. While trait categories for phytoplankton and crustaceans have been posited, rotifer assessment lagged behind. Here, we reviewed the literature assess traits key their life histories provided a data matrix 138 valid genera phylum Rotifera. We considered seven traits...

We report a dataset of all known and published occurrence records animals the phylum Rotifera, including Bdelloidea, Monogononta, Seisonacea (with exclusion Acanthocephala) for Africa surrounding islands archipelagos. The includes 24,704 914 taxa (subspecies: 38; species: 783; genus: 76; family: 17), gathered from 610 papers. literature spans 1854 to 2022, with highest number in decades 1990-19...

In the present study, water samples from 3 stations of Kor river, Iran were analyzed for seasonal fluctuation of physico-chemical parameters, i.e. air and water temperature, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD, total nitrogen, total hardness, pH, alkalinity, acidity, total dissolved solid and water current. Effect of physico-chemical parameters on surface water density of rotifers was also studied. Duri...