Invited review-fight on plankton! Or, phytoplankton shape and size as adaptive tools to get ahead in the struggle for life

L Naselli-Flores, R Barone - Cryptogamie, Algologie, 2011 - BioOne
A renewed interest in investigating the relationships existing between body size and
environmental variables is pervading ecological studies. Phytoplankton has a long tradition …

Water-level fluctuations in Mediterranean reservoirs: setting a dewatering threshold as a management tool to improve water quality

L Naselli-Flores, R Barone - Hydrobiologia, 2005 - Springer
Water-level fluctuations, often linked to seasonal climatic trends, are a natural phenomenon
which occur in almost all aquatic ecosystems. In some climatic regions, as the …

Phytoplankton assemblages in twenty-one Sicilian reservoirs: relationships between species composition and environmental factors

L Naselli-Flores - The Trophic Spectrum Revisited: The Influence of …, 2000 - Springer
Data collected in a limnological survey, carried out between 1987 and 1988 on 21 Sicilian
reservoirs of varying trophic state, were ordinated using CANOCO 3.1 to generalise the way …

Man-made lakes in Mediterranean semi-arid climate: the strange case of Dr Deep Lake and Mr Shallow Lake

L Naselli-Flores - Hydrobiologia, 2003 - Springer
The lack of any protection against eutrophication is progressively compromising the water
quality of Sicilian reservoirs. These water bodies provide the population with an adequate …

Pollution characterization and multi-index ecological risk assessment of microplastics in urban rivers from a Chinese megacity

H Yang, F Sun, H Liao, L Huang, Q Zhao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Currently, a comprehensive understanding of the pollution risks of microplastics (MPs) in
urban river ecosystems is still lacking. This study investigated the spatial distribution and …

Phytoplankton dynamics and structure: a comparative analysis in natural and man-made water bodies of different trophic state

L Naselli-Flores, R Barone - Hydrobiologia, 2000 - Springer
Previous investigations on Sicilian man made lakes suggested that physical factors, along
with the specific morphology and hydrology of the water body, are important in selecting …

Ecological health evaluation of rivers based on phytoplankton biological integrity index and water quality index on the impact of anthropogenic pollution: A case of …

Z Li, C Ma, Y Sun, X Lu, Y Fan - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Based on the phytoplankton community matrices in the Ashi River Basin (ASRB), Harbin city,
we developed an evaluation method using the phytoplankton index of biotic integrity (P-IBI) …

[PDF][PDF] A numerical index for evaluating phytoplankton response to changes in nutrient levels in deep mediterranean reservoirs

A Marchetto, BM Padedda, MA Mariani, A Luglie… - Journal of …, 2009 - Citeseer
This paper proposes a new ecological index based on phytoplankton (MedPTI) as
suggested by the European Directive 2000/60/CE, Water Framework Directive (WFD). The …

Cyanobacterial blooms in stratified and destratified eutrophic reservoirs in semi-arid region of Brazil

ÊW Dantas, AN Moura… - Anais da Academia …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
This study investigated the dynamics of cyanobacteria in two deep, eutrophic reservoirs in a
semi-arid region of Brazil during periods of stratification and destratification. Four collections …

[HTML][HTML] Study on the effect of habitat function change on waterbird diversity and guilds in Yancheng coastal wetlands based on structure–function coupling

C Wang, G Wang, L Dai, H Liu, Y Li, C Qiu, Y Zhou… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, due to human activities and global climate change, the number and area of
waterbird habitats in Yancheng coastal wetlands, a newly established world natural heritage …