ReviewHydrobiologia2021
Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties.
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- Phytoplankton Community Structure and Aquatic Ecological Health in the Tongyang River Basin (China) and Their Response to Nutrients Reduction Project.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2026Article
- Benthic diatoms and phytoplankton diversity in urban streams and ponds: charting a course for conservation.Biodiversity and conservation · 2026Article
- Multi-Millennial Genetic Resilience of Baltic Diatom Populations Disturbed in the Past Centuries.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Shifts in phytoplankton communities in response to water parameters and large branchiopod filter feeders in kettle hole ponds of farmland landscape.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Environmental Applications of GM Microorganisms: Tiny Critters Posing Huge Challenges for Risk Assessment and Governance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Changes in environmental conditions regulate the biodiversity of planktonic microeukaryotes mediated by the dispersal-selection relationships in river: an example of the Beipan River, Guizhou, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Maintenance of High Phytoplankton Diversity in the Danubian Floodplain Lake over the Past Half-Century.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Diversity Patterns of Eukaryotic Phytoplankton in the Medog Section of the Yarlung Zangbo River.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Lakes-scale pattern of eukaryotic phytoplankton diversity and assembly process shaped by electrical conductivity in central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Trophic State Drives the Diversity of Protists in a Tropical River (New River, Belize).Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Phytoplankton community structure of Tang-Pu Reservoir: status and ecological assessment in relation to physicochemical variability.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2022Article
- Phytoplankton Community Structure in Highly-Mineralized Small Gypsum Karst Lake (Russia).Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Dynamics of phytoplankton community in seasonally open and closed wetlands in the Teesta-Torsa basin, India, and management implications for sustainable utilization.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Trait convergence and trait divergence in lake phytoplankton reflect community assembly rules.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Our understanding on phytoplankton diversity has largely been progressing since the publication of Hutchinson on the paradox of the plankton. In this paper, we summarise some major steps in phytoplankton ecology in the context of mechanisms underlying phytoplankton diversity. Here, we provide a framework for phytoplankton community assembly and an overview of measures on taxonomic and functional diversity. We show how ecological theories on species competition together with modelling approaches and laboratory experiments helped understand species coexistence and maintenance of diversity in phytoplankton. The non-equilibrium nature of phytoplankton and the role of disturbances in shaping diversity are also discussed. Furthermore, we discuss the role of water body size, productivity of habitats and temperature on phytoplankton species richness, and how diversity may affect the functioning of lake ecosystems. At last, we give an insight into molecular tools that have emerged in the last decades and argue how it has broadened our perspective on microbial diversity. Besides historical backgrounds, some critical comments have also been made.
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