Phytoplankton and Equilibrium Concept: The Ecology of Steady-State Assemblages: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology (IAP), held in Castelbuono, Italy, 1–8 September 2002

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
From IAAP to IAP....Pages 1-2
Are there steady-state phytoplankton assemblages in the field?....Pages 3-12
Life strategies, dominance patterns and mechanisms promoting species coexistence in phytoplankton communities along complex environmental gradients....Pages 13-36
Phytoplankton assemblage at equilibrium in large and deep subalpine lakes: a case study from Lago Maggiore (N. Italy)....Pages 37-48
Steady state phytoplankton in a deep pre-alpine lake: species and pigments of epilimnetic versus metalimnetic assemblages....Pages 49-64
Steady state phytoplankton assemblages during thermal stratification in deep alpine lakes. Do they occur?....Pages 65-72
The Effect of perturbations on phytoplankton assemblages in a deep reservoir (Vouglans, France)....Pages 73-83
Factors influencing the phytoplankton steady state assemblages in a drinking-water reservoir (Ömerli reservoir, Istanbul)....Pages 85-95
Steady-state assemblages of phytoplankton in four temperate lakes (NE U.S.A.)....Pages 97-109
Phytoplankton assemblages and steady state in deep and shallow eutrophic lakes — an approach to differentiate the habitat properties of Oscillatoriales....Pages 111-121
Equilibrium phase conditions in shallow German lakes: How Cyanoprokaryota species establish a steady state phase in late summer....Pages 123-132
Steady-state assemblages in a Mediterranean hypertrophic reservoir. The role of Microcystis ecomorphological variability in maintaining an apparent equilibrium....Pages 133-143
Algal assemblage types of bog-lakes in Hungary and their relation to water chemistry, hydrological conditions and habitat diversity....Pages 145-155
Dominant species, functional assemblages and frequency of equilibrium phases in late summer phytoplankton assemblages in Hungarian small shallow lakes....Pages 157-168
Steady-state phytoplankton assemblages in shallow Bulgarian wetlands....Pages 169-176
Controlling factors of phytoplankton assemblages in wetlands: an experimental approach....Pages 177-186
Steady state of phytoplankton assemblage in the tropical Lake Catemaco (Mexico)....Pages 187-196
Do steady state assemblages occur in shallow lentic environments from wetlands?....Pages 197-209
The role of physical stability on the establishment of steady states in the phytoplankton community of two Maritime Antarctic lakes....Pages 211-224
A companion to the identification of cryptomonad flagellates (Cryptophyceae = Cryptomonadea)....Pages 225-270
Taxonomic notes on some freshwater planktonic Cryptophyceae based on light microscopy....Pages 271-283
Ecological and taxonomic observations on the flagellate algae characterising four years of enclosure experiments in Lake Tovel (Southern Alps)....Pages 285-296
How diverse are planktonic cryptomonads in Brazil? Advantages and difficulties of a taxonomic-biogeographical approach....Pages 297-306
Occurrence of Cryptophyceae and katablepharids in boreal lakes....Pages 307-314
Dominance patterns of planktonic algae in Swedish forest lakes....Pages 315-324
Distribution and seasonal dynamics of Cryptomonads in Sicilian water bodies....Pages 325-329
Flagellate algae (Chrysophyceae, Dinophyceae, Cryptophyceae) in 48 high mountain lakes of the Northern and Southern slope of the Eastern Alps: biodiversity, taxa distribution and their driving variables....Pages 331-348
Redefinition of Peridinium lomnickii Wołoszynska (Dinophyta) by scanning electronmicroscopical survey....Pages 349-355
Long-term trends in species composition and diurnal migration of dinoflagellates in Lake Tovel (Trentino, Italy)....Pages 357-366
Planktic oscillatorialean cyanoprokaryotes (short review according to combined phenotype and molecular aspects)....Pages 367-382
A new planktic species of Pseudanabaena (Cyanoprokaryota, Oscillatoriales) from North American large lakes....Pages 383-388
Estimation of minimum sedimentary inoculum (akinete) pool of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii : a morphology and life-cycle based method....Pages 389-394
Equilibrium/steady-state concept in phytoplankton ecology....Pages 395-403