Charophyte Biology

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in various fields of Charology. Papers are taken from the Second International Symposium on extant and fossil charophytes held at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, on July 7-13, 1996, organised by the International Research Group of Charophyte specialists.

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Contents

Redefinition of European Oligo-Miocene Charophyte biozonation
(JP Berger)

Revision of some Eocene Charophytes from the Zaysan Basin, eastern Zazakstan (AK Zhamangara & SG Lucas)

Epiphytic overgrowth of charophyte thalli by stromatolite-like structures and fungi in the Lower Cretaceaous of the Iberian Ranges (Spain) (B Martin-Closas)

Charophyte population dynamics during the late quaternary at Lake Bibersee, Switzerland (JN Hass)

Mechanisms underlying the decline and recovery of a characean community in fluctuating light in a large oligotrophic lake (A-M Schwarz, I Hawes & C Howard-Williams)

Salinity tolerance in Nitellopsis obtusa (U Winter, GO Kirst, SJ Grabowski, U Heinemann, I Plettner & S Wiese)

Phylogeny and biology of Chara (Charophyta) inferred from 185 rDNA sequences (ST Meiers, VW Proctor & RL Chapman)

Monophyly of genera and species of Characeae based on rbcL sequences, with special reference to Australian and European Lychnothamnus barbatus (Characeae : Charophyceae) (RM McCourt, KG Karol, MT Casanova & M Feist)

Extant gyrogonite populations of Chara zeylanica and Chara haitensis: implications for taxonomy and paleoecology
(I Soulie-Marsche)

Life histories of charophytes from permanent and temporary wetlands in eastern Australia (MT Casanova & MA Brock)

Charophytivory : Playas y papalotes: a local paradigm of global relevance (VW Proctor)

Charophyte flora of south-eastern South Australia and south-western Victoria: systematics, distribution and ecology (A Garcia)

Chara braunii (Charales, Charophyta) in an arid rainfed waterbody, Saudi Arabia (MI Hussain & TM Khoja)

Charophyte occurrence, seed banks and establishment in farm dams in New South Wales (MT Casanova & MA Brock)

Towards a biogeography of North American charophytes (DH Mann, VW Proctor & AS Taylor)