1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: vii - vii

2. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: ix - x

3. Diel periodicity in phytoplankton productivity

   • Barbara B. Prézelin

   Part One: The Daily Growth Cycle Pages: 1 - 35

4. The daily pattern of nitrogen uptake by phytoplankton in dynamic mixed layer environments

   • Warwick F. Vincent

   Part One: The Daily Growth Cycle Pages: 37 - 52

5. Influence of medium frequency light/dark cycles of equal duration on the photosynthesis and respiration of Chlorella pyrenoidosa

   • Johan U. Grobbelaar
   • Bernd M. A. Kroon
   • Luuc R. Mur

   Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 53 - 62

6. An algal cyclostat with computer-controlled dynamic light regime

   • Bernd M. A. Kroon
   • Udo M. van Hes
   • Luuc R. Mur

   Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 63 - 70

7. The effect of dynamic light regimes on Chlorella

   • Bernd M. A. Kroon
   • Mikel Latasa
   • Luuc R. Mur

   Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 71 - 78

8. The effect of dynamic light regimes on Chlorella II. Minimum quantum requirement and photosynthesis-irradiance parameters

   • Bernd M. A. Kroon
   • Tineke Burger-Wiersma
   • Luuc R. Mur

   Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 79 - 88

9. Flow cytometry: instrumentation and application in phytoplankton research

   • Hans W. Balfoort
   • Thomas Berman
   • Tamar Zohary

   Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 89 - 97

10. Characterization of the light field in laboratory scale enclosures of eutrophic lake water (Lake Loosdrecht, The Netherlands)

    • Herman J. Gons
    • Jacco Kromkamp
    • Oscar Schofield

    Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 99 - 109

11. Influence of the mixing regime on algal photosynthetic performance in laboratory scale enclosures

    • Jacco Kromkamp
    • Ferdinand Schanz
    • Herman J. Gons

    Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 111 - 118

12. Diel changes in dark respiration in a plankton community

    • Stiig Markager
    • Anne-Mette Jespersen
    • Richard Weisburd

    Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 119 - 130

13. Picoplankton photosynthesis and diurnal variations in photosynthesis-irradiance relationship in a eutrophic and meso-oligotrophic lake

    • A. Schweizer
    • R. E. Heusel

    Part Two: Daily Patterns of Growth in Culture and Lake Pages: 131 - 138

14. Variations in biochemical parameters of Heterocapsa sp. and Olisthodiscus luteus grown in 12:12 light:dark cycles I. Cell cycle and nucleic acid composition

    • E. Berdalet
    • M. Latasa
    • M. Estrada

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 139 - 147

15. Variations in biochemical parameters of Heterocapsa sp. and Olisthodiscus luteus grown in 12:12 light:dark cycles II. Changes in pigment composition

    • Mikel Latasa
    • Elisa Berdalet
    • Marta Estrada

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 149 - 157

16. Effect of Si-status on diel variation of intracellular free amino acids in Thalassiosira weissflogii under low-light intensity

    • Véronique Martin-Jézéquel

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 159 - 167

17. The ‘true’ growth efficiency of phytoplankton as influenced by light attenuation and insolation: implications of the photosynthesis-irradiance relationship

    • Herman J. Gons
    • Machteld Rijkeboer

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 169 - 176

18. Nutrients versus physical factors in determining the primary productivity of waters with high inorganic turbidity

    • Johan U. Grobbelaar

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 177 - 182

19. Deep chlorophyll a maxima in the Red Sea observed by in-vivo flash fluorometry

    • U. Hansen
    • G. Pätzold
    • R. Sachse

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 183 - 188

20. Dynamic versus static models for photosynthesis

    • Claudia Pahl-Wostl

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 189 - 196

21. Interspecific variation in pigmentation: implications for production estimates for shallow eutrophic lakes using an incubator

    • Machteld Rijkeboer
    • Wim A. de Kloet
    • Herman J. Gons

    Part Three: Cell Cycle and Productivity Pages: 197 - 202