Cyanobacteria possess many adaptations to develop population maxima or “blooms” in
lakes and reservoirs. A potential consequence of freshwater blooms of many cyanobacterial …

Functional traits are ecologically relevant characteristics of species. They are relevant to
community structuring in face of environmental drivers (response traits) and to ecosystem …

This paper reports on the response by amphibians, benthic macroinvertebrates, and
zooplankton in naturally fishless alpine lakes to fish introductions and subsequent fish …

Fish have a major structuring impact on the Zooplankton communities in lakes (Hrbacek et
al., 1961; Brooks and Dodson, 1965) that may cascade to the lower trophic levels and …

Human activities, such as land use change and eutrophication, threaten freshwater
biodiversity and ecosystem function. In this study, we examined both the α-and β-diversity of …

Recent investigations have shown that the presence of Daphnia can substantially alter the
structure and functioning of microbial food webs in freshwater ecosystems. Due to its ability …

Lake Vela is a polymictic shallow lake exhibiting some characteristics typical of an advanced
trophic state, namely, the permanently turbid water, the reduction in biodiversity, and the …

The effects of major reductions in organic matter, total phosphorus (TP), and total nitrogen
(TN) loading on the chemical environment, trophic structure, and dynamics of the …

We performed a mesocosm experiment to investigate the structuring and cascading effects
of two predominant crustacean mesozooplankton groups on microbial food web …

Composition and seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton, bacteria, and zooplankton (including
heterotrophic flagellates, ciliates, rotifers and crustaceans) were studied in 55 lakes in …