Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small, mostly freshwater crustaceans of the order Cladocera, which includes the water fleas.
- adj. Of or belonging to the order Cladocera.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Cladocera.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the small crustaceans of the order Cladocera
Etymologies
- Cladocera + -an (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Cladocera, order name : Greek klados, branch + Greek keras, horn; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, in the freshwater cladoceran Daphnia spp., growth rates are correlated with the concentration of eicosapentaenoic acid in the water column [43].”
“Likewise, diatom and cladoceran evidence suggest dry warm summers during the period dominated by pine (~7,000 – 3,500 years BP).”
“Functional ecology and palaeolimnology: using cladoceran remains to reconstruct anthropogenic impact.”
“In the European Arctic, combined evidence from oxygen isotope and pollen-inferred precipitation records, cladoceran-inferred lake levels, diatom-inferred lake-water ionic strength, and elemental flux records of erosion intensity into lakes, all suggest more oceanic conditions in the region during the early part of the Holocene than today, with a shift towards drier conditions between approximately 6,000 and 4,500 years BP [34].”
“The very dry period corresponding to shifts from birch to pine corresponds to increasing frequency of diatom and cladoceran taxa indicating lake-level reduction and vegetation overgrowth of numerous lakes [43].”
“Daphnia retrocurva, a common cladoceran in the Great Lakes of North America, has a rounded head from fall to early spring.”
“One of the most obvious features of a cladoceran is its single, large compound eye.”
“Under high P: Si ratios, the increased time between phytoplankton and cladoceran peaks opened a loophole for filamentous cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriales) in warm years to establish dominance after the diatoms, which are silicate limited.”
“Overall, the cladoceran, D. pulex has a wide range of CYPs with the same clans as insects and nematodes, but with distinct changes in the size and composition of each clan.”
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clado-, clad-
of or relating to a branch or branching
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Crustaceans
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