Aquatic Ecology

Palaeoecology of marine systems; species richness in vegetation along river margins; patchiness, species interactions and disturbance in the stream benthos; community ecology and patchy freshwater habitats; disturbance, succession and ecosystem processes in streams - a case-study from the desert; longitudinal patterns and processes along streams - modelling ecological responses to physical gradients; the role of fluid motion in the dynamics of phytoplankton in lakes and rivers; spatial and temporal scaling and the organization of limnetic communities; aquatic community persistence and variability - a palaeolimnological perspective; biodiversity and speciation of freshwater fishes with particular reference to African cichlids; community landscape - scale and stability in hard bottom marine communities; patchiness and disturbance in shallow-water benthic assemblages; scale-determining biological-physical interactions; long-term, large-scale patterns in marine pelagic systems; scale-dependent patterns and species interactions in marine nekton; patch dynamics in the deep-sea benthos - the role of a heterogeneous supply of organic matter; notes from the abyss - the effects of a patchy supply of organic material and larvae on soft-sediment communities; biogeographic patterns in shallow-water systems and the controlling processes at different scales; pattern, process and scale in freshwater systems - some unifying thoughts; scale, pattern and process in marine ecosystems; scale, pattern and process in aquatic systems.