| Preface | |
| Photograph and list of participants | |
| One hundred years of Polish rotiferology - scientists and their work | p. 1 |
| Dispersal-limited zooplankton distribution and community composition in new ponds | p. 15 |
| Rotifer occurrence in relation to age, depth and trophic state of quarry lakes | p. 21 |
| Rotifers from the Canadian High Arctic (Devon Island, Northwest Territories) | p. 29 |
| Additions to the rotifer fauna of south-east Asia: new and rare species from north-east Thailand | p. 35 |
| Associations of planktonic and periphytic rotifers in a Malaysian estuary and two nearby ponds | p. 47 |
| Rotifer assemblages in the Neva Bay, Russia: principles of formation, present state and perspectives | p. 57 |
| Periphytic rotifer communities of an Australian seasonal floodplain pool | p. 63 |
| Factors affecting the distribution of benthic and littoral rotifers in a large marine lagoon, together with the description of a new species | p. 69 |
| Distribution and ecology of rotifer communities from high-altitude alpine sites - a multivariate approach | p. 75 |
| Rotatory apparatus in in Bdelloids | p. 91 |
| Numerical taxonomic studies of the genus Notholca | p. 99 |
| Mating behavior and mate recognition pheromone blocking of male receptors in Brachionus plicatilis Muller (Rotifera) | p. 105 |
| Behavioral reproductive isolation among sympatric strains of Brachionus plicatilis Muller 1786: insights into the status of this taxonomic species | p. 111 |
| Nomenclatural consequences of some recent studies on Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera, Brachionidae) | p. 121 |
| Localization and neuroanatomy of catecholaminergic neurons in some rotifer species | p. 123 |
| SEM of internal structures of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera) | p. 129 |
| Larval metamorphosis in sessile rotifers | p. 133 |
| Influence of temperature on morphological variation in populations of Keratella cochlearis (Gosse) in Rybnik Reservoir | p. 139 |
| Oxygen consumption rate in rotifers | p. 147 |
| Growth pattern of four strains of a Bdelloid rotifer species: egg size and numbers | p. 157 |
| Egg size in relation to body size in rotifers: an indication of reproductive strategy? | p. 165 |
| Enzyme activity measurements on isolated organs of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera) | p. 171 |
| Physiological adaptations in the survival of rotifers (Brachionus plicatilis, O.F. Muller) at low temperatures | p. 175 |
| Effect of diets containing [gamma]-linolenic acid on n-6 highly unsaturated fatty acid content of rotifer (Brachionus plicatilis) | p. 185 |
| Near-coronal fluid flow patterns and food cell manipulation in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus | p. 191 |
| Modification of the swimming behaviour of Brachionus calyciflorus (Pallas) according to food environment and individual nutritive state | p. 197 |
| Habitat-specific predation susceptibilities of a littoral rotifer to two invertebrate predators | p. 205 |
| Predatory behavior of Cupelopagis vorax (Rotifera; Collothecacea; Atrochidae) on protozoan prey | p. 213 |
| Feeding biology of two brachionid rotifers: Brachionus quadridentatus and Brachionus plicatilis | p. 219 |
| Resting eggs of the marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Muller: development and effect of irradiation on hatching | p. 223 |
| Rotifers in ecotoxicology: a review | p. 231 |
| Relative importance of the trophic and direct pathways on PCB contamination in the rotifer species Brachionus calyciflorus (Pallas) | p. 249 |
| The conservation value of English urban ponds in terms of their rotifer fauna | p. 259 |
| Relation to habitat in rotifers | p. 267 |
| Disturbance and population dynamics of rotifers in bed sediments | p. 279 |
| Population dynamics of oxiclinal species in lake Arcas-2 (Spain) | p. 291 |
| Temporal and vertical distribution of planktonic rotifers in a meromictic crater lake, Lake Nyahirya (Western Uganda) | p. 303 |
| Dominant rotifers of Vortsjarv (Estonia) | p. 313 |
| Rotifers of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa | p. 319 |
| Comparison of rotifer communities in Maranhao Reservoir (Portugal) before its complete emptying and on refilling | p. 325 |
| The effect of lake fertilisation on the rotifers of Seathwaite Tarn, an acidified lake in the English Lake District | p. 333 |
| Inter-annual variation of rotifer biomass in two coastal lagoons of the Southern Baltic differing by degree of trophy | p. 341 |
| Induction of diapausing amictic eggs in Synchaeta pectinata | p. 345 |
| The genus Polyarthra in Lake Peipsi | p. 351 |
| Effects of fluctuating temperatures on the population dynamics of Hexarthra bulgarica (Wiszniewski) from high mountain lakes in Sierra Nevada (Spain) | p. 359 |
| Mictic patterns of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Muller in small ponds | p. 365 |
| Desiccation survival of the eggs of the rotifer Adineta vaga (Davis, 1873) | p. 373 |
| Epizoic mode of life in Brachionus rubens Ehrenberg as a deterrent against predation by Asplanchna intermedia Hudson | p. 377 |
| Influence of the filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii on population growth and reproductive pattern of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus | p. 381 |
| Effects of interference and exploitative competition from large-bodied cladocerans on rotifer community structure | p. 387 |
| Use of swimming speed and egg ratio as predictors of the status of rotifer cultures in aquaculture | p. 395 |
| Population growth dynamics of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis cultured in non-limiting food condition | p. 399 |
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