The ecology of the freshwater phytoplankton — communities of freely-dispersed, plant-functioning microbes — has attracted attention in Britain for over 100 years. Here an outline history is given, with reference to persons and places, types of water-body involved, and the approaches adopted. The last include taxonomic resolution and composition with range of morphotypes; physiology of growth, photosynthesis and nutrition in relation to environmental variables; population sampling, dynamics and controlling factors; experimental mesocosms; and synecological aspects of communities. Reductionist and autecological approaches have been accompanied by more abstract generalisation, including phytoplankton viewed as a model community.
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1 June 2012
Freshwater Phytoplankton Ecology: The British Contribution in Retrospect
J.F. Talling
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Freshwater Reviews
Vol. 5 • No. 1
June 2012
Vol. 5 • No. 1
June 2012
algal periodicity
chytrid parasitism
clear-water phase
grazing
models
Nutrient budget
phytoplankton