Rotifers are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter.

Rotifers eat partuculate organis detritus, dead bacteria, algae, and protozoans.

Rotifers have bilateral symmetry and a variety of different shapes.

Rotifers have a small brain, located just above the mastax, from which a number of nerves extend throughout the body.

Rotifers typically possess one or two pairs of short antennae and up to five eyes.

Rotifers may be in competition with cladocera and copepods for phytoplanktonic food sources.

Rotifers are dioecious and reproduce sexually or parthenogenetically.

Rotifers fall prey to many animals, such as copepods, fish ( e. g. herring, salmon ), moss animals, comb jellies, jellyfish, and starfish.

Other important constituents include motile and sedentary Rotifers.

Antibacterials can also affect the vaginal flora, and may lead to overgrowth of yeast species of the genus Candida in the vulvo-vaginal area.

It considers how such interactions, along with interactions between species and the abiotic environment, affect community structure and species richness, diversity and patterns of abundance.

Anthropogenic factors that can affect forests include logging, urban sprawl, human-caused forest fires, acid rain, invasive species, and the slash and burn practices of swidden agriculture or shifting cultivation.

This information is important when looking at breeding patterns or tracking the spread of disease, parasites or how changes to the movement can affect other species.

The chemical processes that affect the removal are dependent on the ability of atmospheric chemistry to oxidize the smoke, via reactions with oxidative species such as ozone and nitrogen oxides, both of which are found at all levels of the atmosphere.

Factors such as climate, seasons and soil composition may affect the aromatic oils present, and this effect may be greater than the differences between the various species of plants.

Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species ' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments.

The scope of veterinary medicine is wide, covering all animal species, both domesticated and wild, with a wide range of conditions which can affect different species.

Post-genomic research, such as metabolomics, has also provided useful insights to the metabolism of this species and how environmental perturbations can affect metabolic processes.

While many of these analyses have been performed on the common chimpanzee rather than the bonobo, the differences between the two chimpanzee species are unlikely to be substantial enough to affect the Pan-Homo comparative data significantly.

Supplement restrictions that have been imposed are: trawling for Hake is not allowed in waters less than 200 m in depth so as not to affect the natural habitat of non-targeted species, and minimizing by-catch.

Androgenic steroids are known to affect the growth and formation of bones, and a connection is possible between this species-specific trait and the " male " genital apparatus in female moles of many mole species ( gonads with testicular and ovary tissues ).

Raised sea levels, sea temperature and changed currents are expected to affect marine mammals by altering the distribution of important prey species, and changing the suitability of breeding sites and migratory routes.

* The first definition, the most used, applies to introduced species ( also called " non-indigenous " or " non-native ") that adversely affect the habitats and bioregions they invade economically, environmentally, and / or ecologically.

Edge effect can also affect the physical and chemical conditions of the species on the borders.

The virus can lay dormant, affect the entire plant and be passed to next generations and to other species.

Some Penicillium species affect the fruits and bulbs of plants, including P. expansum, apples and pears ; P. digitatum, citrus fruits ; and P. allii, garlic.

These concerns can include how animals are killed for food, how they are used for scientific research, how they are kept as pets, and how human activities affect the survival of endangered species.

Different lengths and curvatures of the corolla tubes can affect the efficiency of extraction in hummingbird species in relation to differences in bill morphology.

In addition to poor process control which may affect inter-and intra-batch homogeneity, species, plant part, extraction method, and contamination or adulteration with other products all lead to variability between products.

Red-billed Choughs can acquire blood parasites such as Plasmodium, but a study in Spain showed that the prevalence was less than one percent, and unlikely to affect the life history and conservation of this species.

Amastigotes multiply in infected cells and affect different tissues, depending in part on which Leishmania species is involved ( 4 ).

For any source material of specific composition, the main variables that affect the purity of products in continuous distillation are the reflux ratio and the number of theoretical equilibrium stages ( practically, the number of trays or the height of packing ).

Experimental conditions that can affect the efficiency and specificity of hybridization include ionic strength, viscosity, duplex length, mismatched base pairs, and base composition.

These cells affect the genetic composition of the host in order to regulate the increasing population of the endosymbionts and ensuring that these genetic changes are passed onto the offspring via vertical transmission ( heredity ).

Team size and composition affect the team processes and outcomes.

Therefore, when changes to the composition and processing are made, it will affect the vitrification process.

Because many changes in body composition ( such as fat and muscle loss or gain ) do not affect the weight of cremated remains, the weight of the remains can be more closely predicted from the person's height and sex ( which predicts skeletal weight ), than it can be predicted from the person's simple weight.

Several factors affect the ability of a teratogen to contact a developing conceptus, such as the nature of the agent itself, route and degree of maternal exposure, rate of placental transfer and systemic absorption, and composition of the maternal and embryonic / fetal genotypes.

* Cervical mucus, a substance which plugs the opening of the cervix, changes in whose composition may affect conception

These changes, in turn, affect, among others, water quality and biological community composition of rivers and water systems in the surrounding environment.

The temperature of the metals being welded and their composition will also affect the penetration depth.

Diaper rash is also most likely to be diagnosed in infants 8 – 12 months old, perhaps in response to an increase in eating solid foods and dietary changes around that age that affect fecal composition.

He points out that the Court's decision in McKinney was far more complex, having the potential to affect " the entire composition of the workforce ; the ability of younger people to secure jobs ; access to university resources ; promotion of academic freedom, excellence and renewal ; collective bargaining rights ; and the structure of pension plans.

It is possible, of course, that we are mistaken about the chemical composition of water, but that does not affect the necessity of identities.

The Doctrine of Affections ), in which a composition ( or movement ) would have the same affect, or emotion, throughout.

The main factors that affect thrust include freestream air temperature, pressure, density, and composition.

Many factors like the dust particle size, dust composition and the amount of ventilation in the attic will affect how dust accumulates and the ultimate performance of radiant barrier in the attic.

The composition of the motor unit, the number of muscle fibres per motor unit, the metabolic type of muscle fibres and many other factors affect the shape of the motor unit potentials in the myogram.

There was considerable concern that this would affect the result of the trial, possibly by skewing the composition of the jury, and the decision was appealed by Harris County prosecuters.

In La Salle Blanche ( The White Room ) ( 1975 ), a life-size copy of a room and a half in Broodthaers ' home in Brussels, the wooden walls of the empty, unfurnished rooms are covered with printed words in French -- such as museum, gallery, oil, subject, composition, images, and privilege -- all intended to examine " the influence of language on perceptions of the world and the ways museums affect the production and consumption of art.

Almost forty percent ( 40 %) of the waste left at the glacier is of plastic and metal composition, including toxins like cobalt, cadmium and chromium which eventually affect the water of the Shyok River ( that finally enters the Indus River near Skardu.

The process is reversible and does not affect the chemical composition.

In Robbins ' view, the decision to place a single piton is a matter of " enormous importance " because " like a single word in a poem, it can affect the entire composition ".

Health workforce research is the investigation of how social, economic, organizational, political and policy factors affect access to health care professionals, and how the organization and composition of the workforce itself can affect health care delivery, quality, equity, and costs.