Ostracodology - Linking Bio- and Geosciences: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda, Berlin, 2005 (Developments in Hydrobiology Book 197)

Ostracods, small aquatic Crustacea, occur in almost every marine, brackish and freshwater habitat. Their calcified bivalved carapaces readily fossilize and their record in earth history is long, dense and diverse. Ostracod species are particularly useful as tools in marine and limnic (palaeo- ) ecology, in (palaeo- ) biogeography, and biostratigraphy. Their reproductive morphology is as extraordinary as their reproductive modes, and many of their physiological peculiarities remain mysterious. Ostracod taxonomy and phylogeny contribute to general studies of crustacean evolution. The diversity of ostracod applications in both biology and palaeontology is clearly illustrated by the eighteen papers of the 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda (Berlin, Germany) in 2005, which are grouped in the present proceedings, one of three volumes resulting from this meeting Front Matter....Pages i-vi Ostracodology in time and space: looking back on fifteen International Symposia on Ostracoda, and the times in between....Pages 1-11 Ostracod recovery in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic crisis: Palaeozoic-Mesozoic turnover....Pages 13-27 The influence of El Ninñ 1997–98 on pelagic ostracods in the Humboldt Current Ecosystem off Peru....Pages 29-41 A new, interstitial species of Terrestricythere (Crustacea: Ostracoda) and its microdistribution at Orito Beach, northeastern Sea of Japan....Pages 43-56 Non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) of Banat district in Serbia....Pages 57-66 A year round comparative study on the population structures of pelagic Ostracoda in Admiralty Bay (Southern Ocean)....Pages 67-77 Water quality and diversity of the Recent ostracod fauna in lowland springs from Lombardy (northern Italy)....Pages 79-87 Factors affecting spatial and temporal distribution of Ostracoda assemblages in different macrophyte habitats of a shallow lake (Lake Fehér, Hungary)....Pages 89-98 Groundwater Ostracods from the arid Pilbara region of northwestern Australia: distribution and water chemistry....Pages 99-118 Ecological requirements of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in a heavily polluted shallow lake, Lake Yeniçağa (Bolu, Turkey)....Pages 119-133 Food selection in Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) under experimental conditions....Pages 135-140 Extra-lobal and complex dimorphic features in Middle Devonian palaeocopine ostracods....Pages 141-157 Evolutionary and taxonomic aspects within the species group Pseudocandona eremita (Vejdovský) (Ostracoda, Candonidae)....Pages 159-180 On the origin of the putative furca of the Ostracoda (Crustacea)....Pages 181-200 Ultrastructure of the carapace margin in the Ostracoda (Arthropoda: Crustacea)....Pages 201-211 Ultrastructure of hepatopancreas and its possible role as a hematopoietic organ in non-marine cypridoidean ostracods (Crustacea)....Pages 213-223 Copulatory behaviour and sexual morphology of three Fabaeformiscandona Krstić, 1972 (Candoninae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) species from Japan, including descriptions of two new species....Pages 225-248 Early release of eggs and embryos in a brooding ancient asexual ostracod: brood selection or a gambling strategy to increase fecundity?....Pages 249-253 The ontogeny of appendages of Heterocypris salina (Brady, 1868) Ostracoda (Crustacea)....Pages 255-272