The examination of correlates of diatom community structure has long been centred on local
environmental factors instead of broad-scale biogeographical factors largely because …

A high number of species often represents a relevant redundancy in terms of ecological
adaptation strategies. Collecting species to groups based on their functional adaptations …

Benthic diatoms are relevant indicators of the ecological status of the littoral zone of lakes.
Their use as bio-indicators is based on their morphological identification at species level …

Lake phytoplankton studies outnumber studies on lake periphyton by an order of magnitude,
and most periphyton research has been done in streams. Most benthic algal taxa found in …

Both natural and anthropogenic processes can lead to the increasing salinity of surface
waters. The knowledge about the ecological consequences of salinization on the biota is …

Abstract The European Union's Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that all water
bodies in Europe achieve good ecological status (GES) by 2015. We developed an …

Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea has become a serious concern in recent decades. To
provide a potential means for quality assessments of coastal waters in this area, we …

Historically, limnological and paleolimnological research has focused on large and typically
deep lakes but in the last two decades there has been a growing interest in smaller and …

Assessment of ecological integrity is the basis for sustainable management of the ecosystem
services lakes provide. Periphyton is used in stream assessment, but lake assessment is …

We examined the impact of lake trophic state on the taxonomic and functional structure of
cladoceran communities and the role of nutrient loading in structuring both cladoceran and …