Environmental warming in shallow lakes: a review of potential changes in community structure as evidenced from space-for-time substitution approaches

M Meerhoff, F Teixeira-de Mello, C Kruk… - Advances in ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Shallow lakes, one of the most widespread water bodies in the world landscape, are very
sensitive to climate change. Several theories predict changes in community traits, relevant …

Shallow lakes from the Central Plains of Argentina: an overview and worldwide comparative analysis of their basic limnological features

N Diovisalvi, VY Bohn, MC Piccolo, GME Perillo… - Hydrobiologia, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Central Plains of Argentina is a heterogeneous environment, but the lakes
there share some fundamental features: they are all shallow and polymictic as being well …

Climate change impacts on lakes: an integrated ecological perspective based on a multi-faceted approach, with special focus on shallow lakes

E Jeppesen, M Meerhoff, T Davidson… - Journal of …, 2014 - avesis.metu.edu.tr
Freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity are presently seriously threatened by global
development and population growth, leading to increases in nutrient inputs and …

Impacts of climate warming on lake fish community structure and potential effects on ecosystem function

E Jeppesen, M Meerhoff, K Holmgren… - Hydrobiologia, 2010 - Springer
Fish play a key role in the trophic dynamics of lakes, not least in shallow systems. With
climate warming, complex changes in fish community structure may be expected owing to …

Effects of dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on the replacement and nestedness components of β‐diversity

AT Gianuca, SAJ Declerck, P Lemmens… - Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally metacommunity studies have quantified the relative importance of dispersal
and environmental processes on observed β‐diversity. Separating β‐diversity into its …

The habitat template of phytoplankton morphology-based functional groups

C Kruk, AM Segura - Phytoplankton responses to human impacts at …, 2012 - Springer
The identification of the main factors driving phytoplankton community structure is essential
to understand and adequately manage freshwater ecosystems. We hypothesize that …

High predation is of key importance for dominance of small-bodied zooplankton in warm shallow lakes: evidence from lakes, fish exclosures and surface sediments

C Iglesias, N Mazzeo, M Meerhoff, G Lacerot… - Hydrobiologia, 2011 - Springer
The mean body size of limnetic cladocerans decreases from cold temperate to tropical
regions, in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. This size shift has been …

Phytoplankton community composition can be predicted best in terms of morphological groups

C Kruk, ETHM Peeters, EH Van Nes… - Limnology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We explored how well the aggregated biovolume of groups of species can be predicted from
environmental variables using three different classification approaches: morphology‐based …

Effects of dams decrease zooplankton functional β‐diversity in river‐associated lakes

LSM Braghin, BA Almeida, DC Amaral… - Freshwater …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In river–floodplain systems, the construction of dams causes environmental changes in the
natural dynamics of rivers and the associated wetlands, which can affect both the taxonomic …

Classification of Reynolds phytoplankton functional groups using individual traits and machine learning techniques

C Kruk, M Devercelli, VLM Huszar… - Freshwater …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Reynolds Functional Groups (RFG) classification scheme is an informative and
widely used method in ecological studies of freshwater phytoplankton. It clusters species …