Quantitative global assessments of aquatic vegetation dynamics in lakes are lacking despite
reports of the losses of submerged aquatic vegetation. We conducted a comprehensive …

Introduced invasive alien aquatic plants (IAAPs) threaten ecosystems due to their excessive
growth and have both ecological and economic impacts. To minimize these impacts …

Over the last 40 years there has been substantial evidence that high biomasses of
submerged aquatic plants and phytoplankton rarely occur together in shallow lakes, but it is …

Until the 1990s, herbivory on aquatic vascular plants was considered to be of minor
importance, and the predominant view was that freshwater and marine macrophytes did not …

Eutrophication resulting from high nutrient loading has been the paramount environmental
problem for lakes world-wide for the past four decades. Efforts are being made in many parts …

Submerged macrophyte restoration is the key stage in the reestablishment of an aquatic
ecosystem. Previous studies have paid considerable attention to the effect of multiple …

In the past decade, research on long‐term persistence of phytoplankton resting stages has
intensified. Simultaneously, insight into life‐cycle variability in the diverse groups of …

Submerged macrophytes play a key role in north temperate shallow lakes by stabilizing
clear-water conditions. Eutrophication has resulted in macrophyte loss and shifts to turbid …

Shallow lake ecosystems are widely impaired by eutrophication. Lake restoration projects
frequently fail or are only partially successful, reflecting that environmental managers face …

Herbivory is a fundamental process that controls primary producer abundance and regulates
energy and nutrient flows to higher trophic levels. Despite the recent proliferation of small …