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FOREWORD
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The 9th International Conference on Copepoda (ICOC) was organized for the first time in a country of the Mediterranean basin and in a country of the African continent. It took place in Hammamet, Tunisia, 1115 July 2005. This was a good occasion to bring together more than 220 participants from 50 different countries and to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the first ICOC, which took place in Amsterdam in 1981.
In order to consider the most promising topics related to copepod (and more generally to ecosystem) research, the scientific programme of the 9th ICOC included four plenary sessions on the following topics: (i) behaviour of copepods: role of small scale processes; (ii) use of copepods as bioindicators; (iii) role of copepods in climate change studies and (iv) role of copepods in aquaculture. The papers in this Special Issue of the Journal of Plankton Research represent a diverse asset of presentations