25th International Diatom Symposium
25–30 June 2018 | Berlin | Seminaris & Botanical Garden
Session topics
Keynote talks
1. Nils Kröger
CMCB, Center for Molecuar and Cellular Bioengineering, TU Dresden, Germany
From analysis of silica biogenesis in diatoms to the synthesis of functional materials.
2. Peter G. Kroth
Ecophysiology, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Bacteria - diatom interactions in freshwater biofilms.
3. IRENA KACZMARSKA
Mount Allison University, Canada
Evolutionary diversification in diatoms: an auxospore perspective.
4. Karine Leblanc
CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, & MIO, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Small is beautiful but overlooked: role for nanoplanktonic diatoms in spring blooms and carbon export.
5. Sarah Spaulding
US Geological Survey & INSTAAR, University of Colorado, USA
All polluted waters are alike; but clean waters are clean in their own way.
6. NICHOLAS TURLAND
Chair, Editorial Committee, International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, BGBM Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
The Shenzhen Code: what’s in it for diatoms?
Taxonomy & Phylogeny (talks)
Nakov, Teofil; BeaulieuJeremy M. & Alverson, Andrew J.
Diatom diversification through the lense of large sequence, fossil, trait, and diversity databases: Examining the roles of life history strategies and environmental gradients
Sato, Shinya; Yoshikawa, Shinya; Yamada, Kazumasa; Nagumo, Tamotsu; Idei, Masahiko; Kuwata, Akira; Ichinomiya, Mutsuo
Morphology, phylogeny and whole genome sequence of a hitherto undescribed scaly Parmales – reminiscent of pre-diatom?
Mann, David G.
Diatoms: the Third Dimension
Edlund, Mark; Burge, David; Massa, Eric; Wu, Shelly & Lee, Sylvia
Sex and size in diatoms
Medlin, Linda & Desdevises, Yves
Re-analysis of the Theriot et al. 2016 7 Gene Data Set using multiple outgroups
Kulichová, Jana; Levkov, Zlatko; Kopalová, Kateřina & Neustupa, Jiří
What can cryptic asymmetry say about diatoms?
Jordan, Richard W.; Abe, Kenta & Uezato, Yuki
How Proboscia valve features evolved through time
Van de Vijver, Bart; Kochman-Kędziora, Natalia; Houk, Vaclav & Kusber, Wolf-Henning
What do we know about the genus Orthoseira?
Gaonkar, Chetan C.; Montresor, Marina; Sarno, Diana; Mann, David G. & Kooistra, Wiebe H.C.F.
Diversity of introns in the marine planktonic diatom family Chaetocerotaceae
Ashworth, Matt; Theriot, Edward & Sims, Patricia
Using fossil and DNA data to investigate the biddulphioid diatom genera Biddulphia, Stoermeria, Tabulina and Biddulphiella gen. nov.
Theriot, Edward C.; Spanbauer, Trisha & Lee, Chanhee
Stephanodiscus – evidence for recent speciation and dispersal
Rott, Eugen; Le Cohu; René, Kofler; Werner & Kling, Hedy
Reassessment of centric diatoms from Austrian lakes with special reference to the updating of Cyclotella sensu lato and the Urosolenia gracilis/longiseta complex
Nakamura, Noriaki & Sato, Shinya
Organellar genome Inheritance in araphid diatom Pseudostaurosira trainorii
Pennesi, Chiara; Majewska, Roksana; Sterrenburg, Frithjof A.S.; Totti, Cecilia; Romagnoli,Tiziana & de Stefano, Mario
Revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Anorthoneis
Kulikovskiy, Maxim; Maltsev, Yevhen; Andreeva, Svetlana & Irina Kuznetsova
Molecular phylogeny, morphology and biogeography of genera from the family Mastogloiaceae Mereschkowsky
Cox, Eileen J.
Proschkinia Karayeva: a marine diatom genus with some unusual wall features
Mayama, Shigeki; Hirabayasi, Yui; Sato, Fuminao; Moriuchi, Yuko; Yuasa, Tomoko; Nakamura, Noriaki
What are you? Non-Navicula-like species included in Navicula clade.
Kollár, Jan; Pinseel, Eveline; Vanormelingen, Pieter; Poulíčková, Aloisie; Souffreau, Caroline; Dvořák, Petr; Vyverman, Wim
A polyphasic approach to the delimitation of diatom species: a case study for the genus Pinnularia
Herrera-Herrera, Nadia V. & Hernández-Becerril, David U.
Morphological and molecular characterization of Pleurosigma sp. (Bacillariophyceae), isolated from Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, tropical Mexican Pacific
Kloster, Michael; Glemser, Barbara; Salazar, Katherine & Beszteri, Bánk
Cryptic species in Fragilariopsis kerguelensis unveiled by morphometry and genetics
Mucko, Maja; Bosak, Sunčica; Nakov, Teofil; Ruck, Elizabeth; Gligora Udovič, Marija & Ljubešić, Zrinka
˝Planktonic lifestyle lovers˝: a story of eight new marine Entomoneis species
Freshwater Biogeography (talks)
Brady, Mariska C. & Theriot, Edward C.
Comparative single-cell diatom population genomics across the world's largest lakes and across the world.
Cocquyt, Christine
Diatom biodiversity and endemism in tropical Africa
Kock, Anrich; Taylor, Jonathan & Malherbe, Wynand
Diatom diversity and water quality in the Makuleke Wetlands, Kruger National Park, South Africa
Otto, Mia; Van As, Jo; Van As, Liesl & Taylor, Jonathan
Diatom community composition across ecological gradients in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Verma, Jyotti & Nautiyal, Prakash
Role of historical factors in diatom biogeography of the geologically ancient Vindhya and recent Himalaya (Indian subcontinent)
Kheiri, Somayyeh; Solak, Cüneyt Nadir; Sabouri, Jafar; Spaulding, Sarah; Edlund, Mark & Kocioleck, John Patrick
Reports of new diatom species from the hottest point of the world (Lut Desert), Iran
Kryvosheia, Olha
Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) of the high-mountain lakes of the Ukrainian Carpathians
Wolin, Julie & Bixby, Rebecca
Diatom Assemblages of the Jemez River, New Mexico, USA
Keck, François & Kahlert, Maria
Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic diversity in freshwater diatom communities
Chattová, Barbora; Lebouvier, Marc; Syrovátka, Vít & Van de Vijver, Bart
Moss-inhabiting diatom communities from Ile Amsterdam (TAAF, southern Indian Ocean)
Bishop, Jordan; Katerina Kopalová; Bart Van de Vijver; Donna Roberts; Andrew McMinn & John Gibson
The state of the diatom flora of the Vestfold Hills within East Antarctica
Pinseel, Eveline; Vanormelingen, Pieter; Janssens, Steven B.; Harper, Margaret; Dickinson, Warren; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Lewis, Adam R.; Ashworth, Allan C., TERDIA & ANTDIAT consortia; Sabbe, Koen; Verleyen, Elie; Van de Vijver, Bart & Vyverman, Wim
The evolutionary and biogeographical history of diatoms in Antarctica: a tale of fossils, eDNA and molecular phylogenies
Bioindication (talks)
Ribeiro, Lourenço; Le Bris, Anthony; Hernandez-Fariñas, Tania; Buchet, Rémi; LeRouxel, Astrid; Dutertre, Mickaël; Metzger, Edouard & Barillé, Laurent
Ecological status assessment in estuaries using diatom-based metrics: Could microphytobenthos become a new biological quality element?
Marella, Thomas K.; Datta, Aviraj; Tiwari, Archana & Wani, Suhas P.
Diatoms: from eutrophic indicators to mitigators
Olszyński, Rafał M. & Żelazna-Wieczorek, Joanna
Post-mining open pit reservoirs – ‘blind’ spots of environmental degradation or the diatom hotspots for taxonomical and ecological studies?
Hausmann, Sonja; Charles, Donald F.; Gerritsen, Jeroen & Belton Thomas J.
A diatom-based biological condition gradient (BCG) approach for assessing impairment and developing nutrient criteria for streams.
Knysak, Piotr & Żelazna-Wieczorek, Joanna
Anthropogenic impact on springs with various level of isolation from direct & indirect human influence based on diatom analysis
Szczepocka Ewelina; Kruk, Andrzej & Nowicka-Krawczyk, Paulina
Bioindication values of diatoms as a tool for assessing the human pressure in urban streams
Ossyssek, Stefan & Raeder, Uta
A training set for diatom – phosphorous quantitative reconstructions for montane to alpine lakes of the northern Alps
Guéguen, Julie; Chardon, Cécile; Crepin, Laura; Demir, Rabia; Domaizon, Isabelle; Hustache, Jean-Christophe; Jacas, Louis; Lacroix, Sonia; Perney, Pascal; Perret-Gentil, Laure; Rimet, Frédéric; Pawlowski, Jan & Bouchez, Agnès
SYNAQUA: a French-Swiss program for biomonitoring and preservation of Geneva lake ecosystems
Jüttner, Ingrid; Kelly, Martyn; Evans, Simon & Marsh-Smith, Stephen
Acidification of streams and recovery after liming in Wales, United Kingdom
Bixby, Rebecca J.; Burdett, Ayesha S.; Gregory, Angela E.; AuBuchon, Jonathan & Schroeder, Nathan
The role of scale and hydraulics/hydrology in shaping diatom communities in an aridland river
Main, Stephen P.
Plankton diatom response to environmental change in a mid-sized hardwater stream (Midwestern USA)
Salinas-Camarillo, Victor Hugo; Carmona-Jiménez, Javier & Lobo, Eduardo A.
Diatoms as indicators of ecological quality in Mexico's Basin rivers
Grana, Lorena
Diatoms as bioindicators of prehistoric dams: Water-Management in arid zones in Argentina.
Perez, Laura; Sunesen, Inés; Sar, Eugenia; Hanebuth, Till & García-Rodríguez, Felipe
Inferring salinity changes of the Rio de la Plata during the last 1000 years, through the study of modern and fossil diatoms
Burge, D.R.L.1, Lee, S.; Bishop, I.; Tyree, M.; Edlund, M.B.; Spaulding, S.A.; Mitchell, R. & Yuan, L.
Diatom taxonomic consistency in the 21st century: Lessons, directions, and updated methodologies
Marine & Brackish Biodiversity (talks)
Pfannkuchen, Martin; Baricevic, Ana; Smodlaka Tankovic Mirta; Kuzat Natasa, Ivancic, Ingrid, Pustijanac, Emina; Gasparovic, Blazenka; Novak, Tihana; Kuspilić, Grozdan & Maric Pfannkuchen Daniela
How diatoms win: Livestrategies of Diatoms in the northern Adriatic
Maric Pfannkuchen, Daniela; Baricevic, Ana; Smodlaka Tankovic, Mirta; Kuzat, Natasa; Pustijanac, Emina; Zimmermann, Jonas; Jahn, Regine & Pfannkuchen, Martin
The species composition and ecology of the genus Leptocylindrus Cleve in the Northern Adriatic Sea
Kuzat, Natasa; Smodlaka Tankovic, Mirta; Baricevic, Ana; Ivancic, Ingrid; Pustijanac, Emina; Kuspilic, Grozdan; Novak, Tihana; Gasparovic, Blazenka; Medic, Nikola; Maric Pfannkuchen, Daniela & Pfannkuchen, Martin
Morpho physiological reactions to phosphate limitation and resulting implications for diatom life strategies
KRYK, ADRIAN; BĄK, MAŁGORZATA; GÓRECKA, EWA; LI, CHUNLIAN; RIAUX-GOBIN, CATHERINE; BEMIASA, JOHN; BEMENAJA, ETIENNE; LANGE-BERTALOT, HORST; SEDDON, ALISTAIR & WITKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ
Biodiversity and preliminary results on molecular phylogeny of diatom assemblages of the tropical Indian Ocean Island – Nosy Be, NW Madagascar
Armand, Leanne K.
Life cycle observations of Eucampia anatrctica, Odontella weisflogii and the discovery of living diatoms on tintinnid loricae from the Southern Ocean
Dąbek, Przemysław; Bornman, Thomas, George; Li, Chunlian; Górecka, Ewa; Krzywda, Marta; Cotiyane, Pumlile; Zgłobicka, Izabela; Gastineau, Romain; Surma, Michał & Witkowski, Andrzej
Biodiversity and taxonomy of the South African marine coasts diatom floras – what we know 30 years after M.H. Giffen?
Lei, Yuanda; Du, Xiaoqin; Wang, Yasu; Wen, Xu; Yan, Hongyu; Tang, Hongqu & Jiang, Shijun
The ecological response of diatom assemblage in sediment traps to the mariculture activity (Gracilaria lemaneiformis cultivation) in Shen’ao Bay, Nan’ao Island, China
Park, Jinsoon
A review on the studies of Korean marine benthic diatoms
Romero, Oscar E. & Fischer, Gerhard
Shift in the species composition of the diatom community in the eutrophic Mauritanian coastal upwelling: Results from a multi-year sediment trap experiment (2003–2010)
Nevrova, Elena
Benthic diatom taxocenes off the Crimean coast (the Black Sea): analysis of diversity and taxonomic structure
Pędziński, Jarosław & Witak, Małgorzata
Are the Vistula River waters reaching the Hel Peninsula slope? Diatom data from the Gulf of Gdańsk (southern Baltic Sea, Poland)
Paleoclimatology (talks)
Reavie, Euan D.; Edlund, Mark B.; Kovalenko, Katya E. & Ramstack Hobbs, Joy M.
Regional diatom paleolimnology reveals widespread stressors
Hong, Isabel; Horton, Benjamin, P.; Hawkes, Andrea, D.; O’Donnell III, Robert J.; Engelhart, Simon E. & Padgett, J. Scott
Assessing environmental controls on diatom variability in paleomarsh reconstructions
Menking, Kirsten & Bixby, Rebecca
Response of diatoms to abrupt changes in late Pleistocene hydrology in the Estancia Basin, USA
Caballero, Margarita; Lozano, Ma Socorr; Ortega, Beatriz & Correa, Alexander
Diatom-based transfer functions for Central Mexico and their use in the interpretation of Lake Chaco’s 35 ka record.
Cuña Rodríguez, Carolina; Sylvestre, Florence; García-Rodríguez, Felipe & Piovano, Eduardo
Environmental changes of a highly variable saline lake (Laguna Mar Chiquita, Argentina) since Last Glacial Maximum
Chandra, Anil; Fenner, Juliane; Saxena, Ramesh K. & Rüthnik, Martina
Diatoms from the Neogene sediments of Neill Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Ghosh, Amit K.; Chakraborty, Arindam; Saxena, Stuti & Dey, Rikee
Variations of Indian Summer Monsoon during the Miocene: Evidences from diatom assemblages of northern Indian Ocean
Harding, Poppy; Mackay, Anson; Leng, Melanie; Kostrova, Svetlana; Bezrukova, Elena & Shchetnikov, Alexander
Diatom responses to abrupt Late Quaternary climate change in southern Siberia
Gladenkov, Andrey Yu.
Fossil diatom flora from the marine Cenozoic stratigraphic key section of West Kamchatka at the Kvachina Bay, Russian Far East
Agafonova, Elizaveta & Polyakova, Yelena
New data on the postglacial development of the Kandalaksha Bay coast (White Sea) inferred from diatom assemblages
Pellegrino, Luca; Dela Pierre, Francesco; Natalicchio, Marcello & Carnevale, Giorgio
Linking the Messinian diatomaceous deposition in the Meditrerranian and the latest Miocene biogenic bloom event
Tichá, Anna; Moravcová, Alice; Buczkó, Krisztina; Hrubá, Jolana; Carter, Vachel; Vondrák, Daniel & Kuneš, Petr
Diatom assemblage responses to environmental change during the Holocene from a mountain lake (Prášilské jezero, Czech Republic)
Tofilovska, Slavica; Reed, M. Jane; Cvetkoska, Aleksandra; Francke, Alexander; Wagner, Bernd & Levkov, Zlatko
Diatom community response to climate change during the interglacial/glacial cycle MIS 11-10 in ancient Lake Ohrid
Küfner, Wolfgang & Raeder, Uta
Mountain lake diversity reflects multiplicity of climate change effects – paleolimnological studies in various Alpine lakes
Grudzinska, Ieva; Rey, Fabian & Heiri, Oliver
Climate- and human-induced changes in lake ecosystems in the mid-Holocene inferred by diatom analysis swiss
Environmental DNA & High Throuput Sequencing (eDNA & HTS) (talks)
Tapolczai, Kálmán; Vasselon, Valentin; Bouchez, Agnès; Stenger-Kovács, Csilla; Padisák, Judit & Rimet, Frédéric
The significance of OTU sequence similarity threshold as a proxy for taxonomic resolution in diatom based bioassessment: a case study on the rivers of Mayotte (France, Indian Ocean)
Vasselon, Valentin; Rivera, Sinziana F.; Domaizon, Isabelle; Rimet, Frédéric & Bouchez, Agnès
Freshwater quality assessment using diatom DNA metabarcoding: progress and propsects in the frame of French rivers monitoring networks
Chonova, Teofana; Kurmayer, Rainer; Vasselon, Valentin; Keck, Francois; Rimet, Frederic; Labanowski, Jerome; Illmar, Paul & Bouchez, Agnes
Diatoms metabarcoding to evaluate community changes in river biofilms linked to pharmaceutical loads from a wastewater treatment plant
Bailet, Bonnie; Bouchez, Agnès; Chaumeil, Philippe; Franc, Alain; Frigerio, Jean-Marc; Karjalainen, Satu-Maaria; Ólafsson, Jón; Rimet, Frederic; Salin, Franck; Schneider, Susanne; Kahlert, Maria
Pipelines for diatoms metabarcoding in water quality assessment
Kahlert, Maria; Bouchez, Agnès; Kelly, Martyn; Mann, David G. & Rimet, Frederic
Unravelling the relation of the morphological species concept to the molecular one in the genus Fragilaria
Collections & further topics (talks)
Williams, David M.
Diatom names, diatom taxa and diatom herbaria as sources of discovery
Majewska, Roksana; Tessier, Stéphanie; Scheinberg, Lauren; Robinson, Nathan; Lazo-Wasem, Eric; Rojas, Lourdes; Pinou, Theodora; Zyskowski, Krzysztof; Van de Vijver, Bart; Hamilton, Paul & Poulin, Michel
A forgotten treasure: how zoological museum collections can contribute to epizoic diatom research
Beszteri, Bánk; Kloster, Michael & Nattkemper, Tim
Combining slide scanning microscopy, web-based virtual slide annotation and machine learning for diatom collection mobilization
Blommaert, Lander & Bailleul, Benjamin
Regulation of the xanthophyll cycle in diatoms
Oschatz, Cathleen; Oschatz, Martin; Kaskel, Stefan; Brunner, Eike & Fratzl, Peter
Diatom Biosilica – A promising alternative to synthetic silica materials in different applications
Poster (in alphabetical order)
Al-Handal, Adil Y.; Frankovich, Tomas; Pennesi, Chiara & Wulff, Angela
Revision of the genus Sieminskia with description of valve ultrastructure
Ashworth, Matt; Frankovich, Thomas; Sullivan, Michael; Majewska, Roksana; Arendt, Mike; Schwenter, Jeffrey; Theriot, Edward & Stacy, Nicole
Molecular phylogeny of “marine gomphonemoid” diatoms, with particular reference to the epizoic genus Poulinea Majewska, De Stefano & Van de Vijver
* Avendaño-Villeda, D. A.; Caballero, M.; Ortega-Guerrero, B.; Lozano-García, M. S. & Brown E.
Paleoclimate reconstruction for the transition MIS 6 to MIS 5 from Lake Chalco, Central Mexico
Bácsi, István; Borics, Gábor; Török, Péter; Kókai, Zsuzsanna; Lukács, Áron; Stenger-Kovács, Csilla & B-Béres, Viktória
Protected shallow lakes in Hungary – is nature protection indicated by diatom assemblages?
Bąk, Małgorzata; Halabowski, Dariusz; Kryk, Adrian; Lewin, Iga & Sowa, Agnieszka
Diatom assemblages in rivers differing in extent of their anthropogenic transformation (Upper Silesia and adjacent areas, southern Poland)
Baricevic, Ana; Chardon Cécile; Maric - Pfannkuchen, Daniela; Kuzat, Natasa; Vasselon, Valentin; Smodlaka - Tankovic Mirta; Rimet, Frédéric; Bouchez, Agnès & Pfannkuchen, Martin
Two-way insight into diatom diversity of the Northern Adriatic. High throughput sequencing in marine phytoplankton research
Beauger, Aude; Wetzel, Carlos E.; Voldoire, Olivier; Allain, Elisabeth & Ector, Luc
A new diatom genus from a thermo-mineral spring of the French Massif Central (France)
Ben Khelifa, Leila
Modern diatoms in Tunisia as indicators of water chemistry and their use for hydrologic and climatic reconstruction
Bilous, Olena; Abarca, Nélida; Jahn, Regine & Zimmermann, Jonas
Refined diatom biodiversity assessment of Southern Bug River (Ukraine) via eDNA-Metabarcoding
Biskaborn, Boris K.; Bacher, Saskia; Funck, Kim L.; Herzschuh, Ulrike & Diekmann, Bernhard
A data analytics system for Late Quaternary diatom records in the Russian Arctic
Bolgovics, Ágnes; B-Béres, Viktória; Várbíró, Gábor; Ács, Éva; Kiss, Keve Tihamér & Borics, Gábor
SLOSS debate: a new perspective on an old paradigm
Bosak, Sunčica; Majewska, Roksana; Frankovich, Thomas A.; Ashworth, Matt P. & Van de Vijver, Bart
New Proschkinia species associated with sea turtles
Buczkó, Krisztina; Magyari, Enikő; Béres, Viktória; Ács, Éva & Stenger-Kovács, Csilla
Use of traits: Reconciling diverse diatom-based lake responses to climate change in the Carpathian lakes – (CRYPTIC: CRYPtogams’ Traits In the Carpathians)
Burfeid Castellanos, Andrea M.; Benito, Xavier; Vossel, Hannah
YOUNG ISDR, a new international platform for early career diatomists
* Burfeid-Castellanos, Andrea M.; Cambra-Sánchez, Jaume, Kloster, Michael & Beszteri, Bánk
Size matters: the importance of transapical valve width in diatom biomonitoring
Čalić, Marijeta; Dupčić Radić, Iris & Car, Ana
Effect of thermohaline circulation on diatom distribution in the open South Adriatic Sea
Car, Ana; Hafner, Dubravka; Jasprica, Nenad; Dupčić Radić, Iris, Ljubimir, Stijepo & Batistić, Mirna
The influence of environmental factors on diatom colonization on glass slides in the marine lake Mrtvo More (Island of Lokrum, Adriatic Sea coast)
Card, Virginia M.
Ecological factors and micromechanics of valve structure in loculate centrics
* Chabaca, Hasna,Tadjine, Aicha & Marniche, Faiza
Diatom inventory and description of El Mellah lagoon
Chakraborty, Arindam & Ghosh, Amit K.
Diatoms - the indicator of past sea-level changes: A case study from the Neogene sediments of Andaman and Nicobar Basin, India
Chudaev, Dmitry
Volutin distribution pattern as a valuable taxonomic character in the genus Navicula
Cvetkoska, Aleksandra; Jovanovska, Elena; Hauffe, Torsten; Tofilovska, Slavica; Donders, H. Timme; Francke, Alexander; Vogel, Hendrik; Wagner, Bernd; Wilke, Thomas & Levkov, Zlatko
Changing contribution of global climate and local environmental influence on diatom community structure over time in ancient Lake Ohrid
Davidovich, Nickolai; Podunay, Yulia; Davidovich, Olga & Kulikovskiy, Maxim
Reproductive compatibility of Eurasian populations of Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta)
Davidovich, Olga; Davidovich, Nickolai & Witkowski, Andrzej
Sexual reproduction of diatom species Climaconeis scalaris (Brébisson) E.J. Cox from the Black Sea
Demidova, Svetlana
The Byelovezhian Interglacial diatom flora of Belarus: new data.
Demidova, Svetlana & Khursevich, Galina
Overview of study background of the fossil diatom flora of Belarus
Fenner, Juliane & Lepetit, Petra
Latest Miocene diatoms from lacustrine sediments in Cappadocia, Turkey
Fernandéz-Moreno, David; Luís, Ana Teresa & Sánchez-Castillo, Pedro M.
Pinnularia baetica sp. nov. (Bacillarophyceae): a new diatom species found in an alkaline mountain lagoon in the south of Europe (Granada, Spain)
* Ferreira, Paula Carolina & Ludwig, Thelma Alvim Veiga
Eunotiaceae (Diatomeae) biodiversity from Serra of Itabaiana, Sergipe, northeastern Brazil
* Foets, Jasper; Pfister, Laurent;Teuling, Ryan & Wetzel, Carlos E.
Environmental factors influencing the composition of soil diatom communities: preliminary results
Fránková, Markéta; Šumberová, Kateřina; Vild, Ondřej & Potužák, Jan
Epiphytic diatom communities in a eutrophic reservoir in the second year of the management cycle
* Funck, Kim L.; Biskaborn, Boris K.; Diekmann;. Bernhard; Meyer, Hanno; Pestryakova, Liudmila A.; Warmke, Vanessa & Herzschuh, Ulrike
Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction by downcore diatom variability in Lake Bolshoe Toko sediments, Yakutia (Russia)
* García, M. Luján; Morales, Eduardo A.; Guerrero, José M. & Maidana, Nora I.
Re-examination of type material of Melosira perpusilla Freng. (Bacillariophyta) and description of two new Aulacoseira species from Santa Cruz Province (Argentina)
Gargas, Cory B.; Theriot, Edward C.; Ashworth, Matt; Johansen, Jeffrey R.
Phylogenetic analysis reveals that the ‘radial centric’ genus Orthoseira Thwaites is a member of a ‘multipolar’ diatom lineage
* Górecka, Ewa; Davidovich, Nickolai; Davidovich, Olga; Ashworth, Matt; Sabir, Jamal; Hajrah, Nahid Hassan & Witkowski, Andrzej
Influence of the cell size and life cycle on the lipid content of the selected set of diatom strains
* Hoshina, Kazuki; Jordan, Richard W. ; Abe, Miho & Tada, Ryuji
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Japan Sea during the Mid-Brunhes Event using microfossils
* Jacques, Olivier; Pienitz, Reinhard & Ibrahim, Ghassen
Diatom-based evidence of limnological changes in two subarctic lakes (Quebec, Canada) following the onset of the industrial era
Jüttner, Ingrid; Williams, David M.; Gurung, Smriti; Van de Vijver, Bart; Levkov, Zlatko; Sharma, Chhatra M.; Sharma, Subodh & Cox, Eileen J.
The genus Odontidium in the Himalayas, morphology of four new species and their distribution in alpine freshwater habitats
Kapustin, Dmitry & Kulikovskiy, Maxim
Morphology and distribution of the new diatom genera from Indonesia
Kelly, Martyn G.; Mann, David G.; Walsh, Kerry; Glover, Rachel; Juggins, Steve; Sato, Shinya; Boonham, Neil & Jones, Tim
Development and adoption of a high-throughput-sequencing approach to diatom-based ecological assessments in the UK
Kloster, Michael; Nattkemper, Tim W. & Beszteri, Bánk
MobiDiC - MOBIlization of a DIatom Collection
Kopalová, Kateřina; Bulínová, Marie; Píšková, Anna; Roman, Matěj; Čejka, Tomáš; Lirio, Juan. M. & Nývlt, Daniel
The Holocene evolution of freshwater diatoms within two lakes from Vega Island, Antarctica
* Krahn, Kim J.; Wojewódka, Marta; Hamerlik, Ladislav; Macario-Gonzalez, Laura; Cohuo Duran, Sergio; Hoelzmann, Philipp; Rose, Neil L.; Yang, Handong; Zawisza, Edyta; Pérez, Liseth & Schwalb, Antje
Aquatic ecosystem response to late Holocene environmental variability recorded in Lake Apastepeque (Central El Salvador)
* Krzywda, Marta; Aydin, Kaleli; Solak, Cüneyt; Suncica, Bosak; Ana, Car; Nenad, Jasprica & Witkowski, Andrzej
The influence of sea turtles on the biogeography of marine diatoms based on a case study from the Mediterranean coasts
* Küttim, Liisa; Küttim, Martin; Puusepp, Liisa; Umbleja, Kadri; & Sugita, Shinya
Patterns of diatom flora in Northern European bogs: a case study in Estonia
Kulichová, Jana; Urbánková, Pavla; Funke, Elisabeth & Monaghan, Michael T.
Meta-barcoding insights into the spatial patterns in community structure of freshwater diatoms in oligotrophic habitats
Kusber, Wolf-Henning; Kohlbecker, Andreas; Güntsch, Anton; Berendsohn, Walter & Jahn, Regine
Registration of diatom novelties in Phycobank.org
* Lee, Hojun; Park, Jihae; Pandey, Lalit; Depuydt, Stephen & Han, Taejun Han
Two new endpoint metrics of diatoms for ecotoxicological studies
* Lehmkuhl, Elton A.; Morales, Eduardo A. & Bicudo, Carlos E. de M.
The complex Nitzschia amphibia-semirobusta-amphibiodies: a bibliographic revision.
Levkov, Zlatko; Hamilton, Paul B.; Tofilovska, Slavica & Melovski Ljupco
High species diversity of Neidium Pfitzer in an alpine intermittent pond on Mt. Shar Planina, Republic of Macedonia
Liu, Yan; Kociolek, John Patrick; Mu, Weijie & Fan, Yawen
A new genus of cymbelloid diatoms from Yunnan Province, China
Luís, Ana Teresa, Teixeira, Manuela; Durães, Nuno; Pinto, Raquel; Almeida, Salomé F. P., Ferreira da Silva, Eduardo & Figueira, Etelvina
Extreme acid environments: biogeochemical effects on algal biofilms
Maier B., Dominique; Gälman, Veronika; Renberg, Ingemar; Diehl, Sebastian & Bigler, Christian
Lake monitoring and sediment trapping in a varved lake reveals inter-annual variations in seasonal responses recorded in diatom sediment records
Majewska, Roksana; Van de Vijver, Bart; Frankovich, Thomas A.; Ashworth, Matt P.; Sullivan, Michael & Bosak, Suncica
Morphological variations in sea turtle-associated “gomphonemoid” diatoms
Maltsev, Yevhen; Andreeva, Svetlana & Kulikovskiy, Maxim
Molecular phylogeny and morphology of the diatom genus Nupela Vyverman & Compère
Manoylov, Kalina
Variability within indicator species populations from Georgia, US
Matting, Sabine; Liesegang, Moritz; Milke, Ralf & Wirth, Richard
Photonic structures created by diatom frustule infilling
Mayama, Nagisa; Miura, Haruna; Kamikawa, Ryoma & Mayama, Shigeki
Sigmoid Nitzschia species in girdle view
* Minerovic, Alison; Potapova, Marina; Price, Jacob & Sales, Chris
Molecular and morphological characterization of diatom diversity and community structure for stream biomonitoring in New Jersey, USA
* Mucko, Maja; Bosak, Sunčica; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa; Wetzel, Carlos; Peharec Štefanić, Petra & Ljubešić, Zrinka
Novel clades of intriguing Nitzschia species from marine plankton
Nakov, Teofil ; Ruck, Elizabeth C. ; Downey, Kala M.; Kourtchenko, Olga; Kremp, Anke; Sjöqvist, Conny; Töpel, Mats; Godhe, Anna; Hahn, Matthew & Alverson, Andrew J.
Using population genomics and experimental transcriptomics to understand local adaptation by the diatom Skeletonema marinoi across the Baltic Sea salinity gradient
Palagushkina, Olga; Nazarova, Larisa; Svendsen, John-Inge; Regnell, Carl & Haflidason, Haflidi
Diatoms of Maloye Shchuchye Lake (Polar Ural, Russia)
Parks, Matthew B.; Nakov, Teofil; Ruck, Elizabeth C.; Wickett, Norman J. & Alverson, Andrew J.
Phylogenomics reveals an extensive history of genome duplication in diatoms (Bacillariophyta)
* Pędziński, Jarosław & Witak, Małgorzata
Pauliella taeniata as a bioindicator of the recent environmental changes in the Gulf of Gdańsk
Pereira, Andreia C.; Raieli C. R. L.; Melo, Sérgio & Torgan, Lezilda C.
Pinnularia Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) species from Amazonian region (Santarém, Pará State, Brazil)
Perez Coca, John Jaime, Chang, Yu-Tan & Wang, Min-Ying
The Marine Diatoms of Kenting National Park and Taichung Port, Taiwan R.O.C.
* Piatrou, Uladzimir
A new species of the genus Eunotia Ehrenb. for algal flora the Republic of Belarus
* Pinseel, Eveline & Van de Vijver, Bart
The Nagoya Protocol: implications for diatom research
Potapova, Marina
Ecological and biogeographical drivers of diatom diversity in the Kolyma Lowland, Northeastern Siberia
Renaudie, Johan; Lazarus, David
Macroevolutionary patterns in Cenozoic marine diatoms from deep-sea sediments, and their relationship with climate and marine geochemical cycles
Rioual, Patrick; Peng, Yumei; Zhang, Zhongyan; Zhang, Fei; Jin, Zhangdong & Yang, Xiaoping
New and poorly known diatoms from the Kalakuli lakes in the Pamir Mountains, Xinjiang, Western China
* Robakiewicz, E.; Bergner, A.G.N.; Mingram, J.; Trauth, M.H. & Junginger, A.
Paleolimnological changes over 25,000 years at Lake Nakuru (Kenya) using diatoms as a proxy
* Rouzbahani, Tahmineh; Theriot, Edward & Manning, Schonna
Dissecting the role of salinity on growth rate, morphology and transcriptome response of putative osmolytes in Cyclotella spp.
Sancar, Ümmühan; Çağatay, Namık; Burckle, Llyod; Okay, Nilgün; Lamy, Frank & Arz, Helge
The paleoceanographic evolution of the Black Sea during the Last Glacial-Holocene period as a proxy for diatom records
* Sauvey, Aurore; Fauchot, Juliette & Claquin, Pascal
Cell size changes linked to life cycle may influence DA production in three Pseudo-nitzschia spp.
* Schultz, Konrad; Hübener, Thomas & Dreßler, Mirko
DNA barcoding reveals a new species of the genus Stephanodiscus Ehrenberg
Shubert, Elliot
Systematics and Biodiversity: an international peer-reviewed journal
* Silva-Lehmkuhl, Angela M. & Bicudo, Denise C.
Niche measures and habit of diatom species are good predictors of the distribution pattern in tropical reservoirs
Skibbe, Oliver; Zimmermann, Jonas & Jahn, Regine
From S to XXL in a day: Observations on diatom cell enlargement in cultures
Solak, Cüneyt Nadir; Bąk, Małgorzata; Wojtal, Agata Zofia; Kaleli, Aydın & Ergönül, Borga
Some new record diatoms from alpine lakes in the Black Sea region (Turkey)
Solak, Cüneyt Nadir; Wojtal, Agata Zofia; Kaleli, Aydın; Ergönül, Borga & Çetin, A. Kadri
The diatom distribution in the Tigris-Euphrates River System (Turkey)
Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R.; Pestryakova, Luidmila A. & Herzschuh, Ulrike
Diatom diversity obtained by metabarcoding using a chloroplast and a ribosomal marker on modern and Holocene lake sediments from the Siberian treeline ecotone
* Sugimoto, Nao; Gennari, Rocco; Lugli, Stefano; Jordan, Richard W.; Manzi, Vinicio; Persico, Davide & Roveri, Marco
Late Miocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Gavdos Island, Greece, using fossil diatom assemblages
Svirid, Anna; Mikheyeva, Tamara & Khursevich, Galina
The diatom plankton algae in the oxbow lakes of the National Park «Pripyatsky»
Tsutsui, H.; Takahashi, K.; Yamawaki, N.; Yagi, M.; Kusumoto, N.; Morii, Y.; Nishida, S.; & Jordan, R.W.
Biogeography of living silicoflagellates off the Japan Sea coast during summer 2016
Tuji, Akihiro & Ohtsuka, Taisuke
Are endemic diatoms the origin of cosmopolitan diatoms?
Turskaya, Svetlana; Svirid, Anna & Kavtsevich, Valentina
Class Coscinodiscophyceae Round et Crawford at Vileyskoe Reservoir
Tyree, Meredith; Bishop, Ian; Cao, Yong; Carlisle, Daren & Spaulding, Sarah
Developing alternative diatom enumeration methods to build better predictive bioassessment models
* Uezato, Yuki & Jordan, Richard W.
The morphology and taxonomy of Miocene-Quaternary Proboscia spp.
Usoltseva, Marina & Miettinnen, Arto
Aulacoseira sp. found from proboscidean bone of Deinotherium sp. in Finland
Usoltseva, Marina
Morphological variability of Alveolophora species from type material
Van de Vijver, Bart & Bosak, Suncica
A new epizoic Olifantiella species found on loggerhead sea turtles
Várbíró, Gábor ; Bouchez, Agnès; Rimet, Fredric; Tapolczai, Kálmán; Novais, Maria Helena; Morais, Maria Manuela; Usseglio-Polatera, Philippe; Bácsi, István & B-Béres, Viktoria
Limiting similarity and environmental filtering under drought stress in streams, a case study on diatoms
* Vidaković, Danijela; Krizmanić, Jelena; Levkov, Zlatko; Rakočević, Jelena; Loshkoska, Tatjana; Patceva, Suzana; Kupe, Lirika & Schneider, Susanne
How newly-described diatom species affects biomonitoring? Case of Gomphonema paratergestinum vs. G. teregestinum
* Vossel, Hannah; Litt, Thomas, Reed, Jane M. & Stone, Jeffery
Lake Kinneret (Israel): Lake-level reconstruction for the Holocene based on the Plankton/Benthos-ratio – An appropriate method?
Wishkerman, Asher; Hamilton, Paul B.
DiaCurv: curvature analysis application in diatom research
Wulff, Angela; Torstensson, Anders; Hedblom, Mikael; Andersson, Jenny; Andersson, Mats X. & Jimenez, Carlos
All about the marine and sea ice diatom Nitzschia lecointei
Zhou, Chengxu; Cao, Jiayi; Meng, Ran; Zhu, Xiaojuan; Luo, Qijun; Xu, Jilin & Yan, Xiaojun
Intraspecific variations of Thalassiosira pseudonana isolates from the East China Sea
Zimmermann, Jonas; Abarca, Nélida; Bansemer, Jana; Bettig, Juliane; Dröge, Gabriele; Kusber, Wolf-Henning; Luther, Katja; Mora, Demetrio; Proft, Sebastian; Skibbe, Oliver; Van, Anh L. & Jahn, Regine.
German Barcode of Life 2 (GBOL2) – Diatom eDNA metabarcoding in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD)
* Zinnatova, Elvira; Frolova, Larisa; Nurgaliev, Danis & Kulikovsky, Maxim
Distribution and diversity of diatom assemblages in the sediments of Lake Turgoyak (Southern Ural, Russia)
Zou, Yafei; Wang, Luo; Zang, Lizhou; Liu, Yuan; Li, Peng; Yan, Yao; Jiaoyang, Zhang; Peng, Zhiyuan & Lu, Houyuan
Seasonal diatom variability of Yunlong Lake — a case study based on sediment trap records
* Students to be evaluated for the Student Awards
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