Ecology of Meromictic Lakes

1. Introduction: Meromictic Lakes, Their Terminology and Geographic Distribution
Egor S. Zadereev, Bertram Boehrer, Ramesh D. Gulati

Part I. Special Features of Meromictic Lakes

2. Physical Features of Meromictic Lakes: Stratification and Circulation
Bertram Boehrer, Christoph Rohden, Martin Schultze

3. Chemical Setting and Biogeochemical Reactions in Meromictic Lakes
Martin Schultze, Bertram Boehrer, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Sergei Katsev, Erik T. Brown

4. Biological and Ecological Features, Trophic Structure and Energy Flow in Meromictic Lakes
Egor S. Zadereev, Ramesh D. Gulati, Antonio Camacho

Part II. Case Studies

5. Comparative Study of the Stability of Stratification and the Food Web Structure in the Meromictic Lakes Shira and Shunet (South Siberia, Russia)
Denis Rogozin, Egor Zadereev, Igor Prokopkin, Alexander Tolomeev, Yuri Barkhatov, Elena Khromechek, Nadezhda Degermendzhi, Anton Drobotov, Andrei Degermendzhi

6. Rogoznica Lake, a Euxinic Marine Lake on the Adriatic Coast (Croatia) that Fluctuates Between Anoxic Holomictic and Meromictic Conditions
Irena Ciglenečki, Zrinka Ljubešić, Ivica Janeković, Mirna Batistić

7. Lake Cadagno: Microbial Life in Crenogenic Meromixis
Mauro Tonolla, Nicola Storelli, Francesco Danza, Damiana Ravasi, Sandro Peduzzi, Nicole R. Posth, Raymond P. Cox, Mårten F. Jørgensen, Lea H. Gregersen, Niels Daugbjerg, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard

8. Lake La Cruz, an Iron-Rich Karstic Meromictic Lake in Central Spain
Antonio Camacho, María R. Miracle, Lidia Romero-Viana, Antonio Picazo, Eduardo Vicente

9. Meromictic Pit Lakes: Case Studies from Spain, Germany and Canada and General Aspects of Management and Modelling
Martin Schultze, Bertram Boehrer, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Javier Sánchez-España, Devin Castendyk

10. Tropical Meromictic Lakes: Specifics of Meromixis and Case Studies of Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Matano
Sergei Katsev, Piet Verburg, Marc Llirós, Elizabeth C. Minor, Brittany R. Kruger, Jiying Li

11. Mono Lake: Plankton Dynamics over Three Decades of Meromixis or Monomixis
John M. Melack, Robert Jellison, Sally MacIntyre, James T. Hollibaugh

12. Mexican Meromictic Lakes: What We Know So Far
Javier Alcocer

Part III. Conclusions

13. Conclusion: Ecology of Meromictic Lakes
Ramesh D. Gulati, Egor S. Zadereev

Keywords: Life Sciences, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Biogeosciences, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Geophysics and Environmental Physics