Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis

By Colin S. Reynolds, J. Padisák, Ulrich Sommer. Hydrobiologia, 2004

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Life in the salinity gradient: Discovering mechanisms behind a new biodiversity pattern (2013, background): “As postulated by the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (Connell, 1978; Reinolds et al., 1993), the variability of external stress must be related to generation time of organisms; in case the environmental factor fluctuates more frequently, the period during which an organism lives under the…”
Why plankton communities have no equilibrium: solutions to the paradox (2004, background): “…imposed disturbance the algal succession should in one or two months lead to a stable state in which most species have been outcompeted by one or a few dominants: " . . . undisturbed successions should eventually approach competitive exclusion and ecological equilibrium " (Reynolds et al., 1993).”
Revisiting Remane’s concept: evidence for high plankton diversity and a protistan species maximum in the horohalinicum of the Baltic Sea (2011, result): “This viewpoint is supported by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (Connell 1978, Reinolds et al. 1993) as well as by the body-size dependency of the evolutionary rate (Fenchel & Finlay 2004).”
Seasonal patterns in plankton communities in a pluriannual time series at a coastal Mediterranean site (Gulf of Naples): an attempt to discern recurrences and trends (2004, background): “This dynamics would keep the system far from the equilibrium (Huston, 1979; Reynolds, 1993; Reynolds et al., 1993), allowing a quick alternation of different species as well as the overlapping of populations transported to the station from adjacent sites (Zingone et al., 1990).”
Distribution of phytoplankton in a German lowland river in relation to environmental factors (2010, background): “Possible factors may be physical [climate, water temperature (WT), light intensity], chemical (nutrient concentrations) (Reynolds et al., 1993; Torremorell et al., 2009), hydrological (river morphology, discharge, water residence time, precipitation) (Descy and Gosselain, 1994; Kiss et al., 1994;…”
Shallow lakes: the absolute, the relative, the functional and the pragmatic (2003, background): “In the first place, it is essential to make distinction between the forcing and response elements of disturbance (Juhász-Nagy, 1993; Reynolds et al., 1993).”
Phytoplankton composition, dominance and abundance as indicators of environmental compartmentalization in Jurumirim Reservoir (Paranapanema River), São Paulo, Brazil (2000, background): “High diversity in summer could support the intermediate disturbance processes (Gaedeke & Sommer, 1986; Reynolds et al., 1993), since at this time of year there is high flow, with continuous nutrient pulses, and quick changes in water level and transparency.”
Seasonal variation in the diversity and species richness of phytoplankton in a tropical eutrophic reservoir (2001, unknown): “As a result of a rapid succession process, the dominance of the K-strategist prokaryote cyanobacterium Microcystis viridis was observed (see Reynolds et al., 1993; Calijuri & Dos Santos, 1996; Dos Santos & Calijuri, 1998).”
Trait-based ecological classifications for benthic algae: review and perspectives (2016, background): “reproduction of organisms (Grime, 1989), disturbance is considered as an unpredictable, stochastic event that interferes with the community development towards an ecological climax (Reynolds et al., 1993).”