Papers presented at 20th IDS, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 7–13, 2008.

-edited by Nenad Jasprica

Published: 21 October 2009

Preface

Preface

Nenad Jasprica

Articles

Historical abundance and morphology of Didymosphenia species in Naknek Lake, Alaska

Danielle P. Pite, Kelly A. Lane, Anna K. Hermann, Sarah A. Spaulding, Bruce P. Finney

Fossil diatom flora from the marine Paleogene stratigraphic key section of Northeast Kamchatka, Russia

Andrey Yurievich Gladenkov

Middle Miocene record of Pliocaenicus changbaiense sp nov. from Changbai (Jilin Province, China)

Katarzyna Stachura-Suchoples, Regine Jahn

Two new Mesodictyopsis species, M. akitaensis sp. nov. and M. miyatanus sp. nov., from a Late Miocene to Pliocene freshwater sediment, Japan

Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tamotsu Nagumo

A new species of Sellaphora (Sellaphoraceae) from Hannaberry Lake, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Mihaela D. Enache, Marina Potapova

Cytological characteristics of the Sellaphoraceae

David G. Mann, Alan J. Stickle

Diatom biodiversity in Mongolia: A new amphoroid diatom from saline lakes in western Mongolia, Amphora soninkhishigae sp. nov.

Mark B. Edlund, Avery L.C. Shinneman, Zlatko Levkov

Epilithic diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from cloud forest and alpine Epilithic diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from cloud forest and alpine streams in Bolivia, South America 3: diatoms from Sehuencas, Carrasco National Park, Department of Cochabamba

Eduardo A. Morales, Erika Fernandez, J. Patrick Kociolek

Periphytic diatom community in a Mediterranean salt wedge estuary: the Ebro Estuary (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Laia Torres Rovira, Rosa Pujadas Trobajo, Carles Marta Ibanez

Distribution of periphytic diatoms in the rivers of the Lake Ladoga basin (Northwestern Russia)

Alexander G. Rusanov, Elena V. Stanislavskaya, Eva Acs

Morphological variability of the planktonic diatom Thalassiosira delicatula Ostenfeld emend. Hasle from the Mexican Pacific, in culture conditions

David U. Hernandez-Becerril, Sara P. Moreno-Gutiérrez, Sofía A. Barón-Campis

The diatom Chaetoceros in ships ballast waters survivorship of stowaways

Georgia Klein, Irena Kaczmarska, James M. Ehrman

New diatom taxa from the world’s first marine Bioblitz held in New Zealand: Skeletomastus a new genus, Skeletomastus coelatus nov. comb. and Pleurosigma inscriptura a new species

Margaret A. Harper, John E. Patterson, John F. Harper

Seasonal distribution of plankton diatoms in Lim Bay, northeastern Adriatic Sea

Suncica Bosak, Zrinka Buric, Tamara Djakovac, Damir Vilicic

Influence of environmental and spatial variables on the distribution of surface sediment diatoms in an upland loch, Scotland

Hong Yang, Roger J. Flower, Richard W. Battarbee

Diatom preservation: differential preservation of sedimentary diatoms in two saline lakes

Roger J. Flower, David B. Ryves

Morphotype variations in subfossil diatom species of Aulacoseira in 24 Michigan Lakes, USA

Kalina M. Manoylov, Nadja Ognjanova-Rumenova, Robert J. Stevenson

Variability of the pennatae diatom Gomphonema ventricosum Gregory from far eastern lakes

Sakiko Yoshitake, Hiroshi Fukushima, Tsutomu Kimura, Ekatarina V. Lepskaya, Tuyako Ko-Bayashi

Microfluidic simulation of a colonial diatom chain reveals oscillatory movement

Johannes Srajer, Burhanuddin J. Majlis, Ille C. Gebeshuber

What is in a name? Diatom classification should reflect systematic relationships.

Eileen J. Cox

"Araphid Diatom Classification" and The "Absolute Standard"

David M. Williams

Short communications

Oligotrophy: the forgotten end of an ecological spectrum

John P. Kociolek, Eugene F. Stoermer