On the occasion of Petr Marvan's 80th birthday. 2009. (Fottea, 9:2). illus. 120 p. 4to. Paper bd.

This issue of Fottea contains a collection of 11 contributionsby an international authorship on diatoms. - Contents:ELIAS, M. & NEUSTUPA, J.: Pseudomarvania, gen. nov. (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae), a new genus for "budding" subaerial green algae Marvania aerophytica NEUSTUPA et SEJNOHOVA and Stichococcus ampulliformis HANDA / LANGE-BERTALOT, H., FUMANTI, B., CAVACINI, P.& TAGLIAVENTI, N.: The genus Navigiolum (Bacillariophyceae) in Mediterranean and North African rock pool habitats: description of four new species from Algeria. /COMPERE, P. & VAN DE VIJVER, B.: Planothidium engelbrechtii (CHOLNOKY) ROUND & BUKHTIYAROVA: Identity and lectotypification (Bacillariophyta). /EVANS, K.M., CHEPURNOV, V.A. & NAGAI, S.: Morphology and formal description of Sellaphora bisexualis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta). / MANN, D.G. & POULICKOVA, A.: Incunabula and perizonium of Neidium (Bacillariophyta)/KULIKOVSKIY, M., LANGEBERTALOT, H., WITKOWSKI, A. & DOROFEYUK, N.: Morphology and taxonomy of selected cymbelloid diatoms from a Mongolian Sphagnum ecosystem with a description of three species new to science. / WOJTAL, A.Z.: Nupela marvanii sp. nov., andN. lapidosa (KRASSKE) LANGEBERTALOT in Poland GOMÀ, J., HLÚBIKOVÁ, D., NOVAIS, M.H., HOFFMANN, L. & ECTOR, L.: Taxonomy, morphology and distribution of the Sellaphora stroemii complex (Bacillariophyceae). / NOVAIS, M.H., BLANCO, S., HLUBIKOVA, D., FALASCO, E., GOMA, J., DELGADO, C., IVANOV, P., ÁCS, É., MORAIS, M., HOFFMANN, L. & ECTOR, L.: Morphological examination and biogeography of the Gomphonema rosenstockianum andG. tergestinum species complex (Bacillariophyceae). / JAHN, R., KUSBER, W.-H. & ROMERO, O.E.: Cocconeis pediculus New and recently described Gomphonema species species (Bacillariophyceae; Subclass: Coscinodiscophycidae, Fam. Hyalodiscaceae) from brackish waters of Tonga, Oceania. /VESELA, J., NEUSTUPA, J., PICHRTOVA, M. &POULICKOVA, A.: Morphometric study of Navicula morphospecies (Bacillariophyta) with respect to diatom life cycle./DENYS, L.: Palaeolimnology without a core: 153 years of diatoms and cultural environmental change in a shallow lowland lake (Belgium)./ PISKOVA, A., GRYGAR, T., VESELA, J. & OBERHÄNSLI, H. : Diatom assemblage variations in the Aral Sea core C2/2004 over the past two millennia/ KELLY, M.G., HAIGH, A., COLETTE, J. & ZGRUNDO , A. : Effect of environmental improvements on the diatoms of the River Axe, southern England./ HAJNAL, E., STENGERKOVACS, C., ÁCS, É. & PADISAK, J. : DILSTORE software for ecological status assessment of lakes based on benthic diatoms. / FRANKOVA, M., BOJKOVA, J.,POULICKOVA, A. & HAJEK, M. : The structure and species richness of the diatom assemblages of the Western Carpathian spring fens along the gradient of mineral richness