We review the literature on the relationship between water temperature and size of
freshwater phytoplankton, to examine the hypothesis that freshwater phytoplankton, like …

The unicellular freshwater alga Micrasterias denticulata is an exceptional organism due to
its complex star-shaped, highly symmetric morphology and has thus attracted the interest of …

This paper presents an illustrated guide to the identification of non-pollen palynomorphs
(NPPs) preserved in lake-sediment archives from equatorial East Africa. Modern NPPs were …

Terrestrial microalgae evolved a variety of photoprotective strategies enabling a life on land.
This includes the production of sunscreen compounds, which shield cells from excess …

Mining potash for fertilizer produces vast amounts of highly saline waste that is deposited in
potash tailings piles. Rainfall washes the salts out, affecting the surrounding ecosystems …

The competition-relatedness hypothesis (CRH) predicts that the strength of competition is
the strongest among closely related species and decreases as species become less related …

Although conjugating algae are considered to have a cosmopolitan freshwater distribution,
numerous ecological and taxonomic investigations revealed that many desmid taxa (at the …

The temperature‐size rule (TSR) describes the inverse relationship between organism size
and environmental temperature in uni‐and multicellular species. Despite the TSR being …

Morphological disparity has increasingly been used as an alternative measure of biological
diversity based on the shape features of organisms. In this study, we investigated the …

Dinoflagellates are a major component of marine ecosystems, and very cold and hot water
may affect their survival. Global warming has amplified the magnitude of water temperature …