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OBITUARY
Stanley Ivan Dodson: a distinguished ecologist, naturalist, and teacher
John E. Havel
7-10
Opinion paper
Alternative metrics to measure journal impacts: entering in a “free market” era
Sidinei M. Thomaz and Koen Martens
11-34
Primary research paper
The fish zonation of the Itanhaém river basin in the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil
Fabio Cop Ferreira and Miguel Petrere
35-47
Primary research paper
Temperature and food interact to influence gamete development in freshwater mussels
Heather S. Galbraith and Caryn C. Vaughn
49-64
Primary research paper
The influence of external perturbations on the functional composition of phytoplankton in a Mediterranean reservoir
A. B. Hoyer, E. Moreno-Ostos, J. Vidal, J. M. Blanco and R. L. Palomino-Torres, et al.
65-76
Primary research paper
Effect of single-species and mixed-species leaf leachate on bacterial communities in biofilms
Lan Wu, Christopher B. Blackwood and Laura G. Leff
77-88
Primary research paper
Composition changes of phototrophic microbial communities along the salinity gradient in the solar saltern evaporation ponds of Eilat, Israel
Klára Řeháková, Eliška Zapomělová, Ondřej Prášil, Jana Veselá and Hana Medová, et al.
89-100
Primary research paper
Open AccessGrowth, biomass, and production of two small barbs (Barbus humilis and B. tanapelagius, Cyprinidae) and their role in the food web of Lake Tana (Ethiopia)
Eshete Dejen, Jacobus Vijverberg, Leopold A. J. Nagelkerke and Ferdinand A. Sibbing
101-117
Primary Research Paper
Weak diurnal changes in the biochemical properties and benthic macrofauna of urbanised mangrove forests and mudflats
T. J. Tolhurst
119-128
Primary research paper
Movement behaviour of the small benthic Rhine sculpin Cottus rhenanus (Freyhof, Kottelat & Nolte, 2005) as revealed by radio-telemetry and pit-tagging
Michaël Ovidio, Aurélie Detaille, Charlotte Bontinck and Jean-Claude Philippart
129-136
Primary Research Paper
Growth of Mytilus galloprovincialis (mollusca, bivalvia) close to fish farms: a case of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture within the Tyrrhenian Sea
G. Sarà, A. Zenone and A. Tomasello
137-151
Primary research paper
Benthic diatom assemblages and their correspondence with ecoregional classifications: case study of rivers in north-eastern France
Frédéric Rimet
153-162
Primary research paper
Different methods and storage duration affect measurements of epilithic extracellular enzyme activities in lotic biofilms
Nathan J. Smucker, Jared L. DeForest and Morgan L. Vis
163-172
Primary research paper
The role of niche measures in explaining the abundance–distribution relationship in tropical lotic chironomids
Tadeu Siqueira, Luis Mauricio Bini, Marcus Vinicius Cianciaruso, Fabio Oliveira Roque and Susana Trivinho-Strixino
173-178
Primary research paper
The effects of leaf toughness on feeding preference by two Tasmanian shredders
L. Ratnarajah and L. A. Barmuta
179-190
Primary Research Paper
Fish habitat use response to anthropogenic induced changes of physical processes in the Elwha estuary, Washington, USA
J. Anne Shaffer, M. Beirne, T. Ritchie, R. Paradis and D. Barry, et al.
191-201
Primary research paper
Influence of urban tributaries on freshwater mussel populations in a biologically diverse piedmont (USA) stream
Michael M. Gangloff, Lynn Siefferman, Wendy Seesock and E. Cliff Webber
203-217
Primary research paper
Resuspension behaviour of aluminium treated lake sediments: effects of ageing and pH
Sara Egemose, Gerlinde Wauer and Andreas Kleeberg
219-232
Primary research paper
Dynamics of sexual and parthenogenetic populations of Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in three temporary ponds
Maria João Fernandes Martins, Jochen Vandekerkhove, Francesc Mezquita, Olivier Schmit and Juan Rueda, et al.
233-248
Primary Research Paper
Diversity of microbial eukaryotes in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
Wei Luo, Huirong Li, Minghong Cai and Jianfeng He
249-256
Primary research paper
Diel patterns of grazing by pigmented nanoflagellates on Synechococcus spp. in the coastal ecosystem of subtropical western Pacific
Tsai An-Yi, Wen-Mei Chin and Kuo-Ping Chiang
257-269
Primary Research Paper
Onshore–offshore variations of copepod community in northern South China Sea
Wuchang Zhang, Danling Tang, Bo Yang, Shangwu Gao and Jun Sun, et al.
271-284
Primary research paper
Significant ecosystem-wide effects of the swiftly spreading invasive freshwater bivalve Limnoperna fortunei
Demetrio Boltovskoy, Alexander Karatayev, Lyubov Burlakova, Daniel Cataldo and Vadim Karatayev, et al.
285-293
Primary research paper
Optical properties and optical constituents of the Faroe Islands shelf and off-shelf waters, North East Atlantic
Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen, Eilif Gaard and Høgni Debes
295-305
Primary research paper
Open AccessEffects of crude oil on survival, morphology, and anatomy of two aquatic macrophytes from the Amazon floodplains
Aline Lopes, Sonia Maciel da Rosa-Osman and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
307-317
Primary research paper
Do tributaries affect loads and fluxes of particulate organic matter, inorganic sediment and wood? Patterns in an upland river basin in south-eastern Australia
Elizabeth Wallis, Ralph Mac Nally and Sam Lake
319-329
Primary Research Paper
Hatching in dabbling ducks and emergence in chironomids: a case of predator–prey synchrony?
Lisa Dessborn, Johan Elmberg, Petri Nummi, Hannu Pöysä and Kjell Sjöberg
331-351
Primary Research Paper
Evaluating ecosystem structure and functioning of the East China Sea Shelf ecosystem, China
Yunkai Li, Yong Chen, Derek Olson, Na Yu and Liqiao Chen
353-368
Primary research paper
Multifaceted approach for the analysis of the phototrophic microbial community in a freshwater recreational area of Xochimilco, México
Rosaluz Tavera and Beatriz Díez
369-378
Primary Research Paper
Macrophyte assemblage associated with an invasive species exhibiting temporal variability in its development pattern
Judith C. Klein and Marc Verlaque
379-392
Primary research paper
Relevance of abiotic criteria used in German lake typology for macroinvertebrate fauna
Armin Zenker and Beate Baier
393-400
Primary research paper
Differential expression of heat shock protein 70 in relation to stress type in the flatworm Schmidtea polychroa
Beatriz Sánchez Navarro, Nico K. Michiels, Heinz-R. Köhler and Thomas G. D’Souza
401-412
Primary research paper
Phosphorus and carbohydrate limitation of fecal coliform and fecal enterococcus within tidal creek sediments
Byron R. Toothman, Lawrence B. Cahoon and Michael A. Mallin
413-419
Primary research paper
A morphometrically based method for predicting water layer boundaries in meromictic lakes
Andreas C. Bryhn
421-438
Primary research paper
Implications of the spatial variability of macroinvertebrate communities for monitoring of ephemeral lakes. An example from turloughs
Gwendolin Porst and Kenneth Irvine
439-447
Primary Research Paper
Effects of leaf litter and its fungal colonization on the diet of Limnomysis benedeni (Crustacea: Mysida)
Christine Aßmann, Eric von Elert and René Gergs
449-461
Primary Research Paper
Diet of Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) (Mitchell) larvae in an Australian lowland river in low flow and high flow years
Simon Kaminskas and Paul Humphries
463-478
Primary research paper
Diatom evidence for the timing and causes of eutrophication in Lake Victoria, East Africa
J. Curt Stager, Robert E. Hecky, Dustin Grzesik, Brian F. Cumming and Hedy Kling
479-488
Primary research paper
Feeding habits of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis during its life cycle in the Sado estuary (Portugal)
Ana Neves, Vera Sequeira, Ana Rita Vieira, Rafaela Paiva and Leonel Serrano Gordo
489-492
Short research note
The Estela Sousa e Silva Algal Culture Collection: a resource of biological and toxicological interest
Sérgio Paulino, Filomena Sam-Bento, Catarina Churro, Elsa Alverca and Elsa Dias, et al.
493-498
Short research note
A fossil Potadoma (Gastropoda: Pachychilidae) from Pleistocene central Kalahari fluvio-lacustrine sediments
Frank Riedel, Thomas von Rintelen, Sebastian Erhardt and Annette Kossler
499-503
Short Research Note
Light preferences of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)
Pavel Kozák, José Martín Gallardo and José C. Escudero García