Brief history of long-term ecological research into aquatic ecosystems and their catchments in the Czech Republic. Part II: Glacial lakes: 32 p. Biology Centre CAS, v. v. i., Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, ISBN 978–80–86668–35–2.

0467691 - BC 2017 RIV CZ eng O - Others
Vrba, Jaroslav - Kopáček, Jiří - Čtvrtlíková, Martina - Znachor, Petr (ed.)
Brief history of long-term ecological research into aquatic ecosystems and their catchments in the Czech Republic. Part II: Glacial lakes: 32 p. Biology Centre CAS, v. v. i., Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, ISBN 978–80–86668–35–2.
2016
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP504/12/1218
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/9
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : long-term ecological research * glacial lakes * Bohemian Forest * acidification * recovery
Subject RIV: DA - Hydrology ; Limnology

The Bohemian Forest catchment–lake ecosystems represent valuable central European LTER sites that document the rapidly changing world. They are sensitive indicators of environmental changes, such as long-distance transboundary pollution, large-scale forest dieback, and ongoing climate change. Differences in the lake chemistry and biota enable biological processes and biodiversity to be studied along a gradient of various limiting conditions, such as pH, aluminum concentration, nutrient status, and food webs. Whole-ecosystem studies involving atmospheric deposition, soil, water and sediment compositions enable the present and historical status of nutrient availability to be investigated for both terrestrial and aquatic biota and their future development to be predicted. Ongoing biological recovery is a process of amazing complexity, driven by a synergistic interplay of environmental factors, resource stoichiometry, and complex biotic interactions, which results in the reconstruction of aquatic food webs, though not necessarily in the same way as in the pre-acidification period. Further research into these unique ecosystems may help both understand the mechanisms and verify the conceptual frameworks of biological recovery from acidic stress.
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