Communities of free-living ciliates in freshwater bodies dominated by different species of cyanobacteria
Journal: Theoretical and Applied Ecology
Year: 2025

Cyanobacteria and their toxins can cause changes in the aquatic food web, affecting almost all components of plankton, including free-living ciliates. The aim of the work is to identify the ciliates diversity in different types of waterbodies in the Samara region (rivers, reservoirs, bays, and lakes with/without outflows) and to establish the dependence between the quantitative and structural characteristics of ciliate communities and the dominant species of cyanobacteria. The composition of cya