Preface: Patterns and processes of meiofauna in freshwater ecosystems
Preface: Patterns and processes of meiofauna in freshwater ecosystems
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前言：淡水生态系统中小型底栖动物的模式和过程
作者：
N. Majdi;J. M. Schmid;W. Traunspurger
没听说过harpacticoids，介形类，腹毛类或微型turbellarians？这并不奇怪，它们太小了！然而，这些类群和许多其他更著名的（线虫，轮虫，或缓步动物）显示出复杂的行为和非凡的生理，使他们能够殖民内陆沃茨世界各地。这种丰富的动物群更好地称为小型底栖动物（或小型底栖动物）。小型底栖生物自17世纪以来一直是动物学家的研究对象，最近的研究表明它们在底栖食物网中扮演着中间角色。这份特刊强调了小型底栖生物如何帮助淡水生态学家描述和预测物种分布模式，评估生物量的生产和特征功能关系，以及研究微观和宏观世界之间的营养联系，更好地了解物种对极端环境的适应能力。总的来说，小型底栖生物是连接尺度的桥梁，因此它们应该更好地整合，以发展更全面的生态学概念和理论。
Never heard of harpacticoids, ostracods, gastrotrichs or microturbellarians? This is no surprise, they are so tiny! Yet these taxa and many others more famous (nematodes, rotifers, or tardigrades) show complex behaviours and extraordinary physiologies that allow them to colonize inland waters worldwide. This exuberant fauna is better known as the meiofauna (or meiobenthos). Meiofaunal organisms have been fascinating study objects for zoologists since the seventeenth century and recent research has demonstrated their intermediate role in benthic food webs. This special issue highlights how meiofauna can help freshwater ecologists to describe and predict species distribution patterns, to assess production of biomass and trait functions relationships, as well as to examine the trophic links between microscopic and macroscopic worlds and to better understand species’ resilience to environmental extremes. Overall, meiofaunal organisms are bridging scales, and as such they deserve better integration to develop more comprehensive concepts and theories in ecology.
不同营养状态湖泊附生小型底栖动物的时间变化
影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Schroeder;Traunspurger;Pettersson;L. Peters
通讯作者：
L. Peters