FYTOPLANKTON.CZ

Time series analysis of long-term environmental data allowed us to elucidate important general trends and interactive effects of land-use, management practices, and the ongoing climate change on community ecology and reservoir limnology and determine impacts of weather extremes (i.e. droughts and extreme rainfalls) on reservoir functioning. We also focus on the investigation of phytoplankton spatial heterogeneity, resource competition and the relationship between the physiological traits of individual taxa and their occurrence and temporal dynamics in an aquatic ecosystem... Laboratory of Phytoplankton Ecology is a specialized section of the Department of Plankton and Fish Ecology... In our laboratory, we focus on studying picoplanktonic cyanobacteria in mesoeutrophic and eutrophic freshwater environments. Strains isolated from these environments are grown under different light and temperature conditions, analysed on toxicity, their importance in the food chain and in the microbial..