Phytoplankton in Turbid Environments: Rivers and Shallow Lakes

The ecology of potamoplankton has received less attention than lake plankton. These proceedings produce a synthesis of the composition, community structure and dynamics of lotic phytoplankton, which are intuitively submitted to a strong physical control in the flowing environment, perceived as much more `disturbed'' than a lake, even than a well-mixed shallow one. It turns out that the bounda...