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Claudia Ricci and L. Garibaldi; Adaptive Strategies in Rotifera Bdelloidea. Simposio Dinamica Popolazioni 4:31-39, 1984
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Life table experiments have been performed on six species of Rotifera Bdelloidea under controlled conditions. Population dynamics parameters such as intrinsic rate of increase, age specific fecundity and net reproduction rate have been calculated. Species coming from uncertain and unpredictable environments reproduce many times, while species from certain and rather stable environments reproduce fewer times with higher reproductive effort. This seems to result from adaptations exerted by different selective pressures. An increased capacity for being propagules, and for determining energy allocations might be found to explain the two reproductive strategies.