Limnology of Mountain Lakes (Developments in Hydrobiology (93))

This volume contains papers presented either in oral or poster form at the international symposium 'Limnology of Mountain Lakes', held at Stará Lesná (Slovakia) between 1 and 7 July 1991. Several papers covered contributions from the fields of physical and chemical limnology, palaeolimnology, zooplankton, phytoplankton and phytobenthos, and bacteria. Acidification, a process affecting water chemistry and biota of many mountain lakes in Europe was dealt with also. A series of papers on the lakes in Sumava has highlighted different aspects of these lakes, which are in the last stage of acidification. Other geographical areas covered extensively were the Tatras and the Alps. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Diatoms, lake acidification and the Surface Water Acidification Programme (SWAP): a review....Pages 1-7 Lipid storage in Diaptomus kenai (Copepoda; Calanoida): effects of inter- and intraspecific variation in food quality....Pages 9-16 Nitrogen in the Pyrenean lakes (Spain)....Pages 17-27 Plankton dynamics in a high mountain lake (Las Yeguas, Sierra Nevada, Spain). Indirect evidence of ciliates as food source for zooplankton....Pages 29-35 Acidification of lakes in Šumava (Bohemia) and in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)....Pages 37-47 Chemical characteristics of lakes in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia....Pages 49-56 Paleolimnological records of carotenoids and carbonaceous particles in sediments of some lakes in Southern Alps....Pages 57-64 Algal flora of lakes in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)....Pages 65-74 Acidification and weathering processes in high mountain lakes in Southern Alps....Pages 75-81 Reconstruction of pH by chrysophycean scales in some lakes of the Southern Alps....Pages 83-90 A survey on water chemistry and plankton in high mountain lakes in northern Swedish Lapland....Pages 91-100 Cyclops scutifer SARS in Lake Latnjajaure, Swedish Lapland....Pages 101-114 Comparison of diatom communities in remote high-mountain lakes using index B and cluster analysis....Pages 115-120 Zooplankton decline in the Černé Lake (Šumava Mountains, Bohemia) as reflected in the stratification of cladoceran remains in the sediment....Pages 121-126 Characterization of carbonaceous particles from lake sediments....Pages 127-132 Autotrophic picoplankton community dynamics in a pre-alpine lake in British Columbia, Canada....Pages 133-142 Chemical properties of an acidified humic headwater lake with respect to reducing acidic depositions and expected climate change....Pages 143-154 Limnological research on northern Apennine lakes (Italy) in relation to eutrophication and acidification risk....Pages 155-162 The effect of anthropogenic acidification on the hydrofauna of the lakes of the West Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)....Pages 163-170 Chlorophyll-phosphorus relationship in acidified lakes of the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)....Pages 171-177 Acidification of small mountain lakes in the High Tatra Mountains, Poland....Pages 179-182 This volume contains papers presented either in oral or poster form at the international symposium `Limnology of Mountain Lakes', held at Stara Lesna (Slovakia) between 1 and 7 July 1991. A series of papers on the lakes in Sumava has highlighted different aspects of these lakes, which are in the last stage of acidification.