Hutchinson's heritage: the diversity-disturbance relationship in phytoplankton

By Ulrich Sommer, J. Padisák, Colin S. Reynolds, P. Juhász-Nagy. Hydrobiologia, 2004

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Phytoplankton species succession in a shallow Mediterranean lake (L. Kastoria, Greece): steady-state dominance of Limnothrix redekei, Microcystis aeruginosa and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (2006, background): “For identification of equilibrium states in phytoplankton seasonal succession, Sommer et al. (1993) set three criteria: (i) a maximum of three species of algae contribute more than 80% of total biomass, (ii) their dominance persists for more than 1–2 weeks and (iii) during that period the total…”
Equilibrium/steady-state concept in phytoplankton ecology (2003, background): “In particular, higher diversity values are attained when environmental and internal disturbances can prevent the establishment of equilibrium conditions (Sommer et al., 1993).”
Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis (2004, unknown): “Several of the papers in this volume (Sommer, 1993; Trifonova, 1993; Holzmann, 1993; Chorus & Schlag, 1993), in fact, contrast the effects of what are assumed to be the same stimuli acting upon pairs of nearby lakes, in each case differing mutually either in area, depth or exposure.”
Seasonal variation in the diversity and species richness of phytoplankton in a tropical eutrophic reservoir (2001, unknown): “There is no general consensus about the best quantification method for the calculation of phytoplankton diversity, which is based on the number of individuals, number of cells or biomass ( Sommer et al., 1993 ).”
Steady-state assemblages in a Mediterranean hypertrophic reservoir. The role of Microcystis ecomorphological variability in maintaining an apparent equilibrium (2003, background): “In particular, higher diversity values are attained when environmental and internal disturbances can prevent the establishment of equilibrium conditions ( Sommer et al., 1993 ).”
Temporal changes in the phytoplankton community structure in a tropical and eutrophic reservoir (Barra Bonita, S.P.—Brazil) (2002, methodology): “…Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH; proposed by Connell (Connell, 1978) and, as applied to phytoplankton, critically discussed by Sommer et al. (Sommer et al., 1993)], which tries to explain the ‘Paradox of Plankton’ (Hutchinson, 1961), has been used because it approaches two aspects of the…”