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Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs
Plastic debris is thought to be widespread in freshwater ecosystems globally1. However, a lack of comprehensive and comparable data makes rigorous assessment of its distribution challenging2,3. Here we present a ...
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Open AccessCladocera paleocommunity to disentangle the impact of anthropogenic and climatic stressors on a deep subalpine lake ecosystem (Lake Iseo, Italy)
In big lakes with strong anthropogenic pressure, it is usually difficult to disentangle the impacts of climate variability from those driven by eutrophication. The present work aimed at the reconstruction of c...
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Phytoplankton and anthropogenic changes in pelagic environments
“Phytoplankton” is a loosely defined functional term, indicating a group of organisms distributed into several taxonomic groups ranging from oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria to a number of eukaryotic classes i...
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Large and deep perialpine lakes: a paleolimnological perspective for the advance of ecosystem science
The present paper aims at reviewing general knowledge of large European perialpine lakes as provided by sediment studies, and at outlining the contribution, from several lines of evidence, of modern paleolimno...
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Open AccessEffects of long term nutrient and climate variability on subfossil Cladocera in a deep, subalpine lake (Lake Garda, northern Italy)
Albeit subfossil Cladocera remains are considered as a reliable proxy for tracking historical lake development, they have been scarcely studied in large subalpine lakes south of the Alps. In this study, subfos...
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Comparison between natural and impacted Alpine lakes six years after hydropower exploitation has ceased
Many lakes in mountain regions have been used for hydropower generation since the 1950s. It has been estimated that as many as 79% of the rivers in the Alps have been affected by the presence of hydropower pla...
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Preface: phytoplankton responses to human impacts at different scales
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Temperature modulated effects of nutrients on phytoplankton changes in a mountain lake
Piburger See, a dimictic mountain lake in Austria, experienced moderate cultural eutrophication in the 1950s. Lake restoration led to a re-oligotrophication in the 1990s with a decrease in seasonal phytoplankt...
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Preface: phytoplankton responses to human impacts at different scales
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Temperature modulated effects of nutrients on phytoplankton changes in a mountain lake
Piburger See, a dimictic mountain lake in Austria, experienced moderate cultural eutrophication in the 1950s. Lake restoration led to a re-oligotrophication in the 1990s with a decrease in seasonal phytoplankt...
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Defining ecological and chemical reference conditions and restoration targets for nine European lakes
This paper aims to determine the ecological and chemical reference conditions (~1800–1850 AD) and degree of floristic change at nine enriched lakes, covering a range of types across Europe, using fossil diatom...
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Comparative analysis of phytoplankton patterns in two modified lakes with contrasting hydrological features
Hydrological management represents one of the main factors controlling physical and chemical characteristics as well as biodiversity and productivity of planktonic communities in artificial and modified lakes....
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Structure of the diatom community of the River Adige (North-Eastern Italy) along a hydrological gradient
Physical constrains such as water discharge, suspended solids and turbidity act as dominant factors in driving the planktonic diatom assemblages of the River Adige (North-Eastern Italy). Two sampling stations,...
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Weather-driven ecology of planktonic diatoms in Lake Tovel (Trentino, Italy)
The seasonal development of planktonic diatoms in Lake Tovel has been studied from 2002 to 2004 within the SALTO research project. The objective was to investigate the role of weather conditions and lake hydro...
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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
Survey samplings on late summer phytoplankton communities were carried out on 48 high mountain lakes located on the Austrian and Italian slopes of the Eastern Alps. The lakes of North Tyrol (A) and South Tyrol...
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Steady state phytoplankton in a deep pre-alpine lake: species and pigments of epilimnetic versus metalimnetic assemblages
The vertical distribution pattern of algal species, chlorophylls and specific carotenoids present in the dimictic pre-alpine Ammersee (Bavaria, Germany) are given for the year 2001. A detailed taxonomic list o...
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Ecological and taxonomic observations on the flagellate algae characterising four years of enclosure experiments in Lake Tovel (Southern Alps)
Lake Tovel (Italian Alps, Brenta Dolomites, 1178 m a.s.l.), with a dimictic mixolimnion, is a meromictic and oligotrophic mountain lake, once notorious for the summer reddening of its waters due to dinoflagell...
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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
Survey samplings on late summer phytoplankton communities were carried out on 48 high mountain lakes located on the Austrian and Italian slopes of the Eastern Alps. The lakes of North Tyrol (A) and South Tyrol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Steady state phytoplankton in a deep pre-alpine lake: species and pigments of epilimnetic versus metalimnetic assemblages
The vertical distribution pattern of algal species, chlorophylls and specific carotenoids present in the dimictic pre-alpine Ammersee (Bavaria, Germany) are given for the year 2001. A detailed taxonomic list o...
