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Some suggestions for future cladoceran research

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The topics dealt with at the Cladoceran Symposium showed a largediversity. A high diversity is what characterises the world westudy, consisting of many different habitats and a rich speciesset. This easily leads to anecdotal research which then preventsthe building of a consistent and sophisticated body of knowledge.The contribution of cladoceran research to general ecologicaltheory is limited as a look in textbooks reveals. Therefore,choices have to be made for future research and a few suggestionsto this extent are shortly mentioned in this essay in consequenceof the Symposium on Cladocera held in Postojna (Slovenia), August1996.

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  1. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Limnology, Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands

    Joop Ringelberg

  2. Department of Aquatic Ecology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joop Ringelberg

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Ringelberg, J. Some suggestions for future cladoceran research. Hydrobiologia 360, 291–294 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003117419484

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