Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in Phytoplankton Ecology

1. Front Matter

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2. Hutchinson’s heritage: the diversity-disturbance relationship in phytoplankton

   • U. Sommer, J. Padisák, C. S. Reynolds, P. Juhász-Nagy

   Pages 1-7

3. Disturbance events affecting phytoplankton biomass, composition and species diversity in a shallow, eutrophic, temperate lake

   • Bodil Aavad Jacobsen, Peter Simonsen

   Pages 9-14

4. Stress and disturbance in the phytoplankton community of a shallow, hypertrophic lake

   • Kirsten Olrik, Arnold Nauwerck

   Pages 15-24

5. Diversity and succession of the phytoplankton in a small lake over a two-year period

   • Pertti Eloranta

   Pages 25-32

6. Phytoplankton succession and diversity in a warm monomictic, relatively shallow lake: Lake Volvi, Macedonia, Greece

   • Maria Moustaka-Gouni

   Pages 33-42

7. Hypertrophic phytoplankton and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis

   • C. Rojo, M. Alvarez Cobelas

   Pages 43-57

8. Disturbance-diversity relationships in two lakes of similar nutrient chemistry but contrasting disturbance regimes

   • Ulrich Sommer

   Pages 59-65

9. Importance of intermediate disturbances for the species composition and diversity of phytoplankton in two very different Berlin lakes

   • Ingrid Chorus, Gertrud Schlag

   Pages 67-92

10. Seasonal succession of phytoplankton and its diversity in two highly eutrophic lakes with different conditions of stratification

    • Irina Trifonova

    Pages 93-100

11. Seasonal fluctuations in the diversity and compositional stability of phytoplankton communities in small lakes in upper Bavaria

    • Roswitha Holzmann

    Pages 101-109

12. Ecology of the phytoplankton of the River Moselle: effects of disturbances on community structure and diversity

    • J.-P. Descy

    Pages 111-116

13. Some notes about the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and its effects on the phytoplankton of the middle Orinoco river

    • Humberto I. Carvajal-Chitty

    Pages 117-124

14. Effects of the water discharge on periphyton abundance and diversity in a large river (River Danube, Hungary)

    • Éva Ács, Keve T. Kiss

    Pages 125-133

15. The influence of different disturbance frequencies on the species richness, diversity and equitability of phytoplankton in shallow lakes

    • Judit Padisák

    Pages 135-156

16. Scales of disturbance and their role in plankton ecology

    • Colin S. Reynolds

    Pages 157-171

17. Notes on compositional diversity

    • Pál Juhász-Nagy

    Pages 173-182

18. Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis

    • C. S. Reynolds, J. Padisák, U. Sommer

    Pages 183-188

19. Back Matter

    Pages 189-199

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This volume gives an insight into what a group of contemporary plankton biologists think about the utility, virtues, strengths and theoretical and practical weaknesses of J.H. Connell's Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis within the context of phytoplankton ecology. The sequence of papers in this volume moves from particular case studies to more general and finally theoretical approaches.

• Danube
• Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
• compositional diversity
• ecology
• eutrophic lakes
• hypertrophic lake
• phytoplankton
• phytoplankton ecology
• plankton ecology
• shallow lakes
• species diversity
• the species richness

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