Preface

Contributors

Section 1. General Themes

1. Fish-Habitat Interactions Mediated via Ontogenetic Niche Shifts

Lennart Persson

Larry B. Crowder

2. Influence of Submerged Macrophytes on Trophic Interactions Among Fish and Macroinvertebrates

Sebastian Diehl

Ryszard Kornijow

3. Complex Fish-Snail-Epiphyton Interactions and Their Effects on Submerged Freshwater Macrophytes

Christer Bronmark

Jan Vermaat

4. Interactions Between Periphyton, Nonmolluscan Invertebrates, and Fish in Standing Freshwaters

John Iwan Jones

Brian Moss

Johnstone O. Young

5. Impact of Submerged Macrophytes on Fish-Zooplankton Interactions in Lakes

Erik Jeppesen

Torben L. Lauridsen

Timo Kairesalo

Martin R. Perrow

6. Impact of Submerged Macrophytes on Phytoplankton in Shallow Freshwater Lakes

Martin Sondergaard

Brian Moss

7. Role of Submerged Macrophytes for the Microbial Community and Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Aquatic Ecosystems

Robert G. Wetzel

Morten Sondergaard

8. Impact of Herbivory on Plant Standing Crop: Comparisons Among Biomes, Between Vascular and Nonvascular Plants, and Among Freshwater Herbivore Taxa

David M. Lodge

Greg Cronin

Ellen van Donk

Adrienne J. Froelich

9. Interactions Between Grazing Birds and Macrophytes

Stuart F. Mitchell

Martin R. Perrow

10. Effects of Submerged Aquatic Macrophytes on Nutrient Dynamics, Sedimentation, and Resuspension

John W. Barko

William F. James

Section 2. Case Studies

11. Macrophyte Structure and Growth of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): Design of a Multilake Experiment

Stephen R. Carpenter

Mark Olson

Paul Cunningham

Sarig Gafny

Nathan Nibbelink

Tom Pellett

Christine Storlie

Anett Trebitz

Karen Wilson

12. Vertical Distribution of In-Benthos in Relation to Fish and Floating-Leaved Macrophyte Populations

Ryszard Kornijow

Brian Moss

13. Horizontal Migration of Zooplankton: Predator-Mediated Use of Macrophyte Habitat

Torben L. Lauridsen

Erik Jeppesen

Martin Sondergaard

David M. Lodge

14. Changing Perspectives on Food Web Interactions in Lake Littoral Zones

Larry B. Crowder

Elizabeth W. McCollum

Thomas H. Martin

15. Bacterioplankton and Carbon Turnover in a Dense Macrophyte Canopy

Morten Sondergaard

Jon Theil-Nielsen

Kirsten Christoffersen

Louise Schluter

Erik Jeppesen

Martin Sondergaard

16. Cascading Effects on Microbial Food Web Structure in a Dense Macrophyte Bed

Klaus Jurgens

Erik Jeppesen

17. Abundance, Size, and Growth of Heterotrophic Nanoflagellates in Eutrophic Lakes with Contrasting Daphnia and Macrophyte Densities

Kirsten Christoffersen

18. What Do Herbivore Exclusion Experiments Tell Us? An Investigation Using Black Swans (Cygnus atratus) and Filamentous Algae in a Shallow Lake

Robert T. Wass

Stuart F. Mitchell

19. Switches Between Clear and Turbid Water States in a Biomanipulated Lake (1986-1996): The Role of Herbivory on Macrophytes

Ellen Van Donk

20. Macrophyte-Waterfowl Interactions: Tracking a Variable Resource and the Impact of Herbivory on Plant Growth

Martin Sondergaard

Torben L. Lauridsen

Erik Jeppesen

Lise Bruun

21. Influence of Macrophyte Structure, Nutritive Value, and Chemistry on the Feeding Choices of a Generalist Crayfish

Greg Cronin

22. Concordance of Phosphorus Limitation in Lakes: Bacterioplankton, Phytoplankton, Epiphyte-Snail Consumers, and Rooted Macrophytes

Robert E. Moeller

Robert G. Wetzel

Craig W. Osenberg

23. Sources of Organic Carbon in the Food Webs of Two Florida Lakes Indicated by Stable Isotopes

Mark V. Hoyer

Binhe Gu

Claire L. Schelske

24. Importance of Physical Structures in Lakes: The Case of Lake Kinneret and General Implications

Avital Gasith

Sarig Gafny

25. Clear Water Associated with a Dense Chara Vegetation in the Shallow and Turbid Lake Veluwemeer, The Netherlands

Marcel S. Van den Berg

Hugo Coops

Marie-Louise Meijer

Marten Scheffer

Jan Simons

26. Alternative Stable States in Shallow Lakes: What Causes a Shift?

Irmgard Blindow

Anders Hargeby

Gunnar Andersson

27. Clear and Turbid Water in Shallow Norwegian Lakes Related to Submerged Vegetation

Bjorn A. Faafeng

Marit Mjelde

28. Macrophytes and Turbidity in Brackish Lakes with Special emphasis on the Role of Top-Down Control

Erik Jeppesen

Martin Sondergaard

Jens Peder Jensen

Eva Kanstrup

Birgitte Petersen

Section 3. Interdisciplinary Discussions

29. Structuring Role of Macrophytes in Lakes: Changing Influence Along Lake Size and Depth Gradients

Avital Gasith

Mark V. Hoyer

30. Nutrient-Loading Gradient in Shallow Lakes: Report of the Group Discussion

Stephen R. Carpenter

Ellen van Donk

Robert G. Wetzel

31. Alternative Stable States

Marten Scheffer

Erik Jeppesen

Index