Published: 30 September 2015

Preface

A word from the Guest Editor

Zrinka Ljubesic

Articles

How to define a diatom genus? Notes on the creation and recognition of taxa, and a call for revisionary studies of diatoms

John Patrick Kociolek, David M. Williams

Applied use of taxonomy: lessons learned from the first German intercalibration exercise for benthic diatoms

Mirko Dreßler, Geurt Verweij, Sonja Kistenich, Maria Kahlert, Petra Werner

The morphological study of Chaetoceros wighamii Brightwell (Chaetocerotaceae, Bacillariophyta) from Lake Vrana, Croatia

Suncica Bosak, Marija Gligora Udovic, Diana Sarno

A new European record of Diadesmis fukushimae and its transference to Humidophila genus (Bacillariophyta)

Csilla Kövér, János Korponai, Sándor Harangi, Krisztina Buczkó

First report of Navicula jakovljevicii Hustedt (Bacillariophyta) from Hungary: distribution, comparative morphology and a related species

Viktória B-Béres, István Bácsi, Eniko T-Krasznai, Zsuzsanna Kókai, Krisztina Buczkó

Diatom communities and vegetation of springs in the south-western Alps

Marcella Mogna, Marco Cantonati, Flora Andreucci, Graziella Berta, Luca Miserere

Halophilic diatom taxa are sensitive indicators of even short term changes in lowland lotic systems

Zsuzsanna Kókai, István Bácsi, Péter Török, Krisztina Buczkó, Eniko T-Krasznai, Csaba Balogh, Béla Tóthmérész, Viktória B-Béres

Diatom composition of the rheoplankton in a rhithral river system

Ágnes Bolgovics, Éva Ács, Gábor Várbíró, Tihamér Keve Kiss, Gábor Borics

Diatoms of the Dojkinci River (Stara Planina Nature Park, Serbia)

Jelena Krizmanic, Marija Ilic, Danijela Vidakovic, Gordana Subakov Simic, Jelena Petrovic, Katarina Cvetanovic

Diatoms in an extreme euxinic environment (Rogoznica Lake, eastern Adriatic coast)

Nikola Malesevic, Irena Ciglenecki, Elvira Bura-Nakic, Marina Caric, Iris Dupcic, Enis Hrustic, Damir Vilicic, Zrinka Ljubesic

Stratigraphic and taxonomic significance of siliceous microfossils collected from the Turiec Basin, Western Carpathians (Slovakia)

Nadja Georgieva Ognjanova-Rumenova, Radovan Pipík

Similar small-scale variation of diatom assemblages on different substrates in a mesotrophic stream

Maria Kahlert, Ivana Savatijevic Rasic

Development of periphytic diatoms on different artificial substrates in the Eastern Adriatic Sea

Tina Nenadovic, Tena Sarcevic, Hrvoje Cizmek, Jelena Godrijan, Danijela Maric Pfannkuchen, Martin Pfannkuchen, Zrinka Ljubesic

The first report on periphytic diatoms on artificial and natural substrate in the karstic spring Bunica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anita Dedic, Andjelka Plenkovic-Moraj, Koraljka Kralj Borojevic, Dubravka Hafner

Colonization of diatoms and bacteria on artificial substrates in the sea

Maja Mejdandzic, Zrinka Ljubesic, Tomislav Ivankovic, Martin Pfannkuchen, Jelena Godrijan, Daniela Maric Pfannkuchen, Jasna Hrenovic

Book reviews

Book review: Endemi u Hrvatskoj flori by Toni Nikolic, Milenko Milovic, Sandro Bogdanovic and Nenad Jasprica

Bostjan Surina