Ecologists often group organisms based on similar biological traits or on taxonomic criteria.
However, the use of taxonomy in ecology has many drawbacks because taxa may include …

There is hardly any sunshine exposed surface on this Earth, be it water or terrain, which
would not support some biota. Still, many habitats offer harsh conditions requiring …

Toxic cyanobacterial blooms are a water quality issue worldwide whose incidence and
severity are predicted to increase due to climate change and eutrophication. Argentina is not …

Biological species can be assembled into functional groups based on functional traits, which
are keys to understanding the response of phytoplankton to environmental factors, such as …

The current definition of a functional trait as any trait that is linked to growth, reproduction
and survival is problematic. With this logic all traits within an organism can be defined as …

Abstract The Central Plains of Argentina is a heterogeneous environment, but the lakes
there share some fundamental features: they are all shallow and polymictic as being well …

Cyanobacteria dominance is often associated with economic, ecological and health
problems. The potential production of toxic compounds calls for frequent monitoring of …

Identifying the drivers that impact phytoplankton biomass and dynamics of functional groups
(FGs) is crucial to the management of lake aquatic systems. To explore the interactive effects …

Functional groups of phytoplankton make possible various classifications among taxa and
this approach has been receiving a growing scientific interest. We compared three …

During the past decade, basic hydrological conditions of a floodplain lake in the middle
Danube section have been altered with long-lasting extremely high flooding. The objective …