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Journal Article 
Ecology of Freshwater Diatoms - Current Trends and Applications 
Poulickova, A; Manoylov, K 
2019 
289-309 
WOS:000526928100015 
Freshwater systems are considered vulnerable due to the relative scarcity of resources and the conflicting needs between humans and aquatic organisms, where microbial aquatic organisms remain of least concern. This review summarizes directions of the very active research in diatom ecology in the last few decades, focusing on diatom distribution and conditions influencing abundance. The influence of climate vs local environmental predictors is beginning to grow as an area of research, while understanding diatom biogeography and global ecology has been concentrated for extreme environments. The role of traditional taxonomic resolution for freshwater ecosystem biomonitoring remains relevant, but new molecular methodologies show great promise. Ecological guilds, eco-morphological functional groups, and phylogenetic signals present new understanding in the complex ecology of diatom assemblages. 
Diatoms; distribution; dispersal; diversity; assemblages; classification; metacommunities; biomonitoring