Ecology of Meromictic Lakes

Volume EditorsRamesh D. Gulati, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands, r.gulati@nioo.knaw.nl Egor S. Zadereev, Institute of Biophysics, SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, egor@ibp.ru Andrei G. Degermendzhi, Institute of Biophysics, SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, ibp@ibp.ru

• Introduction: Meromictic Lakes, their Terminology and Geographic Distribution.- Physical Features of Meromictic Lakes: Stratification and Circulation .- Chemical Setting and Biogeochemical Reactions in Meromictic Lakes.- Biological and Ecological Features, Trophic Structure and Energy Flow in Meromictic Lakes.- Comparative Study of the Stability of Stratification and the Food Web Structure in the Meromictic Lakes Shira and Shunet (South Siberia, Russia).- Rogoznica Lake, an Euxinic Marine Lake on the Adriatic Coast (Croatia) that Fluctuates Between Anoxic-Holomictic and Meromictic Conditions.- Lake Cadagno, Microbial Life in Crenogenic Meromixis.- Laguna de La Cruz, an Iron-Rich Karstic Meromictic Lake in Central Spain.- Meromictic Pit Lakes: Case Studies from Spain, Germany and Canada, and General Aspects of Management and Modeling.- Tropical Meromictic Lakes: Specifics of Meromixis and Case Studies of Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Matano.- Mono Lake: Plankton Dynamics over Three Decades of Meromixis or Monomixis.- Mexican Meromictic Lakes: What we Know so far?- Conclusion: Ecology of Meromictic Lakes.