
Zooplankton & Their Parasites
Zooplankton are critical members of aquatic food webs. Ceriodaphnia (small) and Daphnia (large) compete with each other and interfere with transmission of each other's parasites. Photo credit: Meg Duffy
Zooplankton are critical members of aquatic food webs. Ceriodaphnia (small) and Daphnia (large) compete with each other and interfere with transmission of each other's parasites. Photo credit: Meg Duffy
Sampling plankton communities at VIP pond in Whitehall Forest, UGA. Microsporidian parasites infect high proportions of populations of Daphnia ambigua in the spring. Photo credit: Jay Shelton
Sampling the herbaceous community in an experimental herbivore exclusion plot. Exclusion impacts diversity, productivity, and disease. Photo credit: Eric Seabloom
Rust fungi infecting the leaves of a grass host (quackgrass; Agropyron repens), altering tissue chemistry and photosynthetic rates. Photo credit: Katie Schroeder