Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in Phytoplankton Ecology: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology held in Baja (Hungary), 5–15 July 1991

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Hutchinson’s heritage: the diversity-disturbance relationship in phytoplankton....Pages 1-7
Disturbance events affecting phytoplankton biomass, composition and species diversity in a shallow, eutrophic, temperate lake....Pages 9-14
Stress and disturbance in the phytoplankton community of a shallow, hypertrophic lake....Pages 15-24
Diversity and succession of the phytoplankton in a small lake over a two-year period....Pages 25-32
Phytoplankton succession and diversity in a warm monomictic, relatively shallow lake: Lake Volvi, Macedonia, Greece....Pages 33-42
Hypertrophic phytoplankton and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis....Pages 43-57
Disturbance-diversity relationships in two lakes of similar nutrient chemistry but contrasting disturbance regimes....Pages 59-65
Importance of intermediate disturbances for the species composition and diversity of phytoplankton in two very different Berlin lakes....Pages 67-92
Seasonal succession of phytoplankton and its diversity in two highly eutrophic lakes with different conditions of stratification....Pages 93-100
Seasonal fluctuations in the diversity and compositional stability of phytoplankton communities in small lakes in upper Bavaria....Pages 101-109
Ecology of the phytoplankton of the River Moselle: effects of disturbances on community structure and diversity....Pages 111-116
Some notes about the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and its effects on the phytoplankton of the middle Orinoco river....Pages 117-124
Effects of the water discharge on periphyton abundance and diversity in a large river (River Danube, Hungary)....Pages 125-133
The influence of different disturbance frequencies on the species richness, diversity and equitability of phytoplankton in shallow lakes....Pages 135-156
Scales of disturbance and their role in plankton ecology....Pages 157-171
Notes on compositional diversity....Pages 173-182
Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis....Pages 183-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-199