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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

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Nicole Lair; The rotifer fauna of the River Loire (France), at the level of the nuclear power plants. Hydrobiologia 73:153-160, 1980

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In the heated effluents of nuclear power plants of the river Loire, rotifers are abundant. Cosmopolitan species are numerically dominant, but a tropical fauna is also present, among which the genus Brachionus, representing 20% of the total species, is best represented. From a comparison between water upstream and downstream of the power plants, it further appears that in downstream warmed-up waters, some species show an important development, but not in colder upstream waters.