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Contents Preface Organizing Committee, List of participants Diatoms, lake acidification and the Surface Water Acidification Programme (SWAP): a review by R.W. Battarbee Lipid storage in Diaptomus kenai (Copepoda; Calanoida): effects of inter- and intraspecific variation in food quality by N.M. Butler Nitrogen in the Pyrenean lakes (Spain) by J. Catalan, L. Camarero, E. Garcia, E. Ballesteros & M. Felip Plankton dynamics in a high mountain lake (Las Yeguas, Sierra Nevada, Spain). Indirect evidence of ciliates as food source for zooplankton by L. Cruz-Pizarro, I. Reche & P. Carillo Acidification of lakes in Sumava (Bohemia) and in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) by J. Fott, M. Prazakova, E. Stuchlik & Z. Stuchlikova Chemical characteristics of lakes in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia by J. Kopacek & E. Stuchlik Paleolimnological records of carotenoids and carbonaceous particles in sediments of some lakes in Southern Alps by A. Lami, A. Marchetto, P. Guillizzoni, A. Giorgis & J. Masaferro Algal flora of lakes in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) by J. Lukavsky Acidification and weathering processes in high mountain lakes in Southern Alps by A. Marchetto, A. Barbieri, R. Mosello & G.A. Tartari Reconstruction of pH by chrysophycean scales in some lakes of the Southern Alps by A. Marchetto & A. Lami A survey on water chemistry and plankton in high mountain lakes in northern Swedish Lapland by A. Nauwerck Cyclops scutifer SARS in Lake Latnjajaure, Swedish Lapland by A. Nauwerck Comparison of diatom communities in remote high-mountain lakes using index B and cluster analysis by P. Niederhauser & F. Schanz Zooplankton decline in the Cerné Lake (Sumava Mountains, Bohemia) as reflected in the stratification of cladoceran remains in the sediment by M. Prazakova & J. Fott Characterization of carbonaceous particles from lake sediments by N. Rose Autotrophic picoplankton community dynamics in a pre-alpine lake in British Columbia, Canada by J.G. Stockner & K.S. Shortreed Vi Chemical properties of an acidified humic headwater lake with respect to reducing acidic depositions and expected climate change by H. Thies Limnological research on northern Apennine lakes (Italy) in relation to eutrophication and acidification risk by P. Viaroli, I. Ferrari, G. Paris, G. Rossetti & P. Menozzi The effect of anthropogenic acidification on the hydrofauna of the lakes of the West Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) i by M. Vranovsky, I. Krno, F. Sporka & J. Tomajka Chlorophyll—phosphorus relationship in acidified lakes of the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) by V. Vyhnalek, J. Fott & J. Kopacek Acidification of small mountain lakes in the High Tatra Mountains, Poland by K. Wojtan & J. Galas