Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in Phytoplankton Ecology

Hutchinson’s heritage: the diversity-disturbance relationship in phytoplankton.- Disturbance events affecting phytoplankton biomass, composition and species diversity in a shallow, eutrophic, temperate lake.- Stress and disturbance in the phytoplankton community of a shallow, hypertrophic lake.- Diversity and succession of the phytoplankton in a small lake over a two-year period.- Phytoplankton succession and diversity in a warm monomictic, relatively shallow lake: Lake Volvi, Macedonia, Greece.- Hypertrophic phytoplankton and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis.- Disturbance-diversity relationships in two lakes of similar nutrient chemistry but contrasting disturbance regimes.- Importance of intermediate disturbances for the species composition and diversity of phytoplankton in two very different Berlin lakes.- Seasonal succession of phytoplankton and its diversity in two highly eutrophic lakes with different conditions of stratification.- Seasonal fluctuations in the diversity and compositional stability of phytoplankton communities in small lakes in upper Bavaria.- Ecology of the phytoplankton of the River Moselle: effects of disturbances on community structure and diversity.- Some notes about the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and its effects on the phytoplankton of the middle Orinoco river.- Effects of the water discharge on periphyton abundance and diversity in a large river (River Danube, Hungary).- The influence of different disturbance frequencies on the species richness, diversity and equitability of phytoplankton in shallow lakes.- Scales of disturbance and their role in plankton ecology.- Notes on compositional diversity.- Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis.- Generalindex.