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Do submerged macrophytes facilitate the development of large crustacean zooplankton in tropical shallow lakes?
In temperate shallow lakes, submerged macrophytes facilitate zooplankton development by providing refuge against fish predation and, thereby,...
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Differences in food web structure and composition between new and nearby older lakes in West Greenland suggest succession trajectories driven by glacier retreat
With the retreat of glaciers, new ponds and lakes are often formed. These are gradually colonised and become more productive as vegetation develops...
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Patterns of Seasonal Stability of Lake Phytoplankton Mediated by Resource and Grazer Control During Two Decades of Re-oligotrophication
Human-induced changes in external nutrient loading affect the phytoplankton community and abundance directly by changing the amount of nutrients...
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Impact of zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton in north temperate coastal lakes: changes along gradients in salinity and nutrients
Zooplankton grazing at similar nutrient levels is generally regarded as lower in brackish than in freshwater lakes, but experimental evidence of this...
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Drivers assessment of zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton under different scenarios of fish predation and turbidity in an in situ mesocosm experiment
Zooplankton play a key role in energy transfer within lake food webs, but we have a poor knowledge concerning their role as phytoplankton grazers in...
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Spring and autumn rotifer community structure differentiates shallow water bodies in two European ecoregions: Poland and Croatia
Rotifer structure may serve as predictor of environmental features, including temperate subclimates between water bodies. The difference in latitude...
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Assessing the relevance of top-down and bottom-up effects as phytoplankton structure drivers in a subtropical hypereutrophic shallow lake
Although several studies explain the trophic cascade in water systems, we lack knowledge about top-down–bottom-up effects on phytoplankton from...
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The Role of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control for Phytoplankton in a Subtropical Shallow Eutrophic Lake: Evidence Based on Long-Term Monitoring and Modeling
Lake ecosystems are exposed to a range of anthropogenic pressures, particularly eutrophication, and in some cases also stocking and/or overfishing of...
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Alteration in microcrustacean secondary production and herbivory effects between the River Danube and its floodplain lake
The aim of this study was to determine microcrustacean secondary production (P/B) and a herbivory ratio (ZB:PB) in the River Danube and a floodplain...
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Consumer adaptation mediates top–down regulation across a productivity gradient
Humans have artificially enhanced the productivity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on a global scale by increasing nutrient loading. While the...
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Role of predation in biological communities in naturally eutrophic sub-Arctic Lake Mývatn, Iceland
Effects of fish predation on consumers tend to be particularly strong in oligotrophic Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes. However, it remains unclear...
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Simulating eutrophication in a metacommunity landscape: an aquatic model ecosystem
Aquatic habitats are often characterized by both high diversity and the threat of multiple anthropogenic stressors. Our research deals with temporal...
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The structuring role of fish in Greenland lakes: an overview based on contemporary and paleoecological studies of 87 lakes from the low and the high Arctic
Lakes in Greenland are species-poor ecosystems and many are fishless. We studied the structuring role of fish in lakes in high- and low-Arctic...
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Fish shift the feeding behaviour and trophic niche diversification of their prey in subarctic Lake Mývatn, Iceland
Fish can alter food web structure through trophic cascades. While most studies conducted in oligotrophic subarctic lakes show strong top–down control...
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Long-term trends in seasonal plankton dynamics in Lake Mead (Nevada-Arizona, USA) and implications for climate change
Over the past few decades, Lake Mead (Nevada-Arizona, USA) has experienced multiple ecosystem stressors including drought, increased water demand,...
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Patterns of microbial food webs in Mediterranean shallow lakes with contrasting nutrient levels and predation pressures
To elucidate the specific and combined effects of bottom-up and top-down control on the microbial community in warm lakes, we sampled microbial...
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Effects of nutrient and water level changes on the composition and size structure of zooplankton communities in shallow lakes under different climatic conditions: a pan-European mesocosm experiment
Lentic ecosystems act as sentinels of climate change, and evidence exists that their sensitivity to warming varies along a latitudinal gradient. We...
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Biomanipulation-induced reduction of sediment phosphorus release in a tropical shallow lake
Biomanipulation via fish regulation combined with submerged plant introduction is an effective measure to restore eutrophic shallow lakes. Improved...
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The response of Vallisneria spinulosa (Hydrocharitaceae) and plankton to pulse addition of inorganic nitrogen with different loading patterns
The global climate change may lead to more extreme climate events such as severe flooding creating excessive pulse-loading of nutrients, including...
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Submerged macrophytes facilitate dominance of omnivorous fish in a subtropical shallow lake: implications for lake restoration
Biomanipulation based on removal of coarse fish, piscivorous fish stocking and sometimes also planting of submerged macrophytes has been used to...
