2023
DOI: 10.3390/w15081459
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Trait-Based Research on Rotifera: The Holy Grail or Just Messy?

Abstract: 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 trait assessment has lagged behind. Here, we reviewed the literature to assess traits key to their life histories and provided a data matrix for the 138 valid genera of phylum Rotifera. We considered seven traits: habitat type, trophi type, presence of lorica and foot, predation defense attributes,… Show more

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“…Our combination of morphological, behavioural and physiological traits yielded nine functional groups, of which seven may be considered autochthonous for the periphyton and two as more or less planktonic. In comparison, Obertegger and Wallace [62] clustered all 138 rotifer genera into ten groups using a somewhat different trait selection (e.g., including corona type but not diet) and non-fuzzy coding. For the 54 genera in common, only one of their clusters matched entirely with one of our functional groups (cluster 1 and FG7, bdelloids).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Our combination of morphological, behavioural and physiological traits yielded nine functional groups, of which seven may be considered autochthonous for the periphyton and two as more or less planktonic. In comparison, Obertegger and Wallace [62] clustered all 138 rotifer genera into ten groups using a somewhat different trait selection (e.g., including corona type but not diet) and non-fuzzy coding. For the 54 genera in common, only one of their clusters matched entirely with one of our functional groups (cluster 1 and FG7, bdelloids).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Grouping of traits within these categories was not always clear-cut. Habitat specificity may be considered an overarching trait [62], which we classified here as behavioural. Likewise, size is also a key trait relating to a range of organismal properties, including behavioural and physiological features.…”
Section: Trait Data Functional Groups and Guild Ratiomentioning
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“…While sessile Collothecaceae are all raptorial macrophages with uncinate trophi, Flosculariaceae are microphages filter feeders with malleoramate trophi (Obertegger & Wallace 2023). Currently nine genera of Flosculariidae are recognized: Beauchampia, Floscularia, Lacinularia, Lacinularoides, Limnias, Octotrocha, Pentatrocha, Ptygura, and Sinantherina (Meksuwan et al 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, while the theoretical basis of species diversity, namely the species concept, is well established, the same cannot be said about functional diversity (Moretti et al, 2017). Nonetheless, over the last decade, the focus of diversity‐based analyses shifted from taxonomic to trait‐based approaches (Obertegger & Wallace, 2023). Using functional diversity constrains the possible parameter space (there are more species than species traits), but enables generalizations across communities and ecosystems that are needed to investigate the general consequences of the various changes—often due to anthropogenic stressors—for ecosystem processes (Hortal et al, 2015; Kunstler et al, 2016; McGill et al, 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%