Abstract According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released in
September 2014, unprecedented changes in temperature and precipitation patterns have …

In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

Water levels of lakes fluctuate naturally in response to climatic and hydrological forcing.
Human over-exploitation of water resources leads to increased annual and interannual …

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii is a cyanobacterial species extensively studied for its toxicity,
bloom formation and invasiveness potential, which have consequences to public and …

Similar to the increased number of studies on invasive plants and animals in terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems, many reports were recently published on the invasion of Nostocales …

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

Research aimed at identifying indicators of persistent abrupt shifts in ecological
communities, aka regime shifts, has led to the development of a suite of early warning …

Abstract Dolichospermum (formerly Anabaena) and Microcystis cause harmful
cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Input reduction of both nitrogen …

The current ecosystem paradigm in limnology is represented by the cold temperate,
stratifying lake and the single-channelled river. However, the variety of inland water …

We quantify the role of zooplankton in nutrient cycles in Lake Kinneret, Israel, using field
data and a numerical model. A coupled ecological and hydrodynamic model (Dynamic …