Hepatotoxic microcystins (MCs) are the most widespread class of cyanotoxins and the one
that has most often been implicated in cyanobacterial toxicosis. One of the main challenges …

Body size is a decisive functional trait in many organisms, especially for phytoplankton,
which span several orders of magnitude in cell volume. Therefore, the analysis of size as a …

Harmful algal blooms are among the emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity that need to
be studied further in the Anthropocene. Here, we studied freshwater plankton communities …

Background Marine microalgae (phytoplankton) mediate almost half of the worldwide
photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and therefore play a pivotal role in global carbon …

Global concern about human impact on biological diversity has triggered an intense
research agenda on drivers and consequences of biodiversity change in parallel with …

Background Blooms of marine microalgae play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling. Such
blooms entail successive blooms of specialized clades of planktonic bacteria that …

Eutrophic lakes, especially shallow eutrophic lakes, disproportionately contribute to
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To investigate the effects of eutrophication on GHG …

This is the second edition of Freshwater Algae; the popular guide to temperate freshwater
algae. This book uniquely combines practical information on sampling and experimental …

Studies in laboratory-based experimental evolution have demonstrated that phytoplankton
species can rapidly adapt to higher temperatures. However, adaptation processes and their …

Plastic debris are resistant to degradation, and therefore tend to accumulate in marine
environment. Nevertheless recent estimations of plastic concentrations at the surface of the …