Phytoplankton in extreme environments: importance and consequences of habitat permanency

J Padisak, L Naselli-Flores - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Invited review-fight on plankton! Or, phytoplankton shape and size as adaptive tools to get ahead in the struggle for life

L Naselli-Flores, R Barone - Cryptogamie, Algologie, 2011 - BioOne
A renewed interest in investigating the relationships existing between body size and
environmental variables is pervading ecological studies. Phytoplankton has a long tradition …

Environmental heterogeneity determines the ecological processes that govern bacterial metacommunity assembly in a floodplain river system

P Huber, S Metz, F Unrein, G Mayora… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
How diversity is structured has been a central goal of microbial ecology. In freshwater
ecosystems, selection has been found to be the main driver shaping bacterial communities …

Classification of Reynolds phytoplankton functional groups using individual traits and machine learning techniques

C Kruk, M Devercelli, VLM Huszar… - Freshwater …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Reynolds Functional Groups (RFG) classification scheme is an informative and
widely used method in ecological studies of freshwater phytoplankton. It clusters species …

Phytoplankton of the River Loire, France: a biodiversity and modelling study

JP Descy, M Leitao, E Everbecq… - Journal of plankton …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Most studies of phytoplankton dynamics in lowland rivers have been conducted in regulated
rivers. This study deals the phytoplankton of the River Loire, a relatively unregulated river in …

Reynolds Functional Groups: a trait-based pathway from patterns to predictions

C Kruk, M Devercelli, VL Huszar - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Reynolds Functional Groups (RFG) were designed to represent the diversity of
phytoplankton assemblages of freshwater ecosystems and are among the most enduring …

Phytoplankton functional responses induced by extreme hydrological events in a tropical reservoir

MRA Costa, MML Cardoso, GB Selmeczy, J Padisák… - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
Climate change is affecting the global hydrological cycle, causing drastic changes in
precipitation patterns. Extreme climatic events are becoming more frequent and intense than …

Unravelling the role of determinism and stochasticity in structuring the phytoplanktonic metacommunity of the Paraná River floodplain

M Devercelli, P Scarabotti, G Mayora, B Schneider… - Hydrobiologia, 2016 - Springer
One of the ongoing debates around metacommunity ecology is to what extent stochastic and
deterministic processes act on community assembly. We explored the influence of both …

From historical backgrounds towards the functional classification of river phytoplankton sensu Colin S. Reynolds: what future merits the approach may hold?

A Abonyi, JP Descy, G Borics, E Smeti - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
River phytoplankton has been studied to understand its occurrence and composition since
the end of the nineteenth century. Later, pioneers addressed mechanisms that affected river …

Phytoplankton in the physical environment: beyond nutrients, at the end, there is some light

T Zohary, J Padisák, L Naselli-Flores - Hydrobiologia, 2010 - Springer
This article summarizes the outcomes of the 15th Workshop of the International Association
for Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology. Four major issues dealing with the role of …