Survival strategies of planktonic organisms in alpine lakes and beyond: Baldi Memorial Award Lecture presented at the 37th Congress of the International Society of Limnology.

ABSTRACT: Recent research on alpine lakes has revealed both novel adaptive strategies and established ones, now examined from a new perspective, that planktonic organisms use to persist under the harsh environmental conditions characteristic of these ecosystems. The 2024 Edgardo Baldi lecture addresses 3 major topics, namely, the multifactorial drivers of photoprotection, emerging mechanisms of microbial solar energy utilization, and virus-mediated facilitation of host survival. Photoprotective phenotypes, including the accumulation of mycosporine-like amino acids and carotenoids, are increasingly recognized as outcomes of complex interactions among ultraviolet radiation exposure, nutrient (particularly nitrogen) availability, temperature fluctuations, and predation pressure. Deciphering this interp

SUBMITTER: Sommaruga R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306673 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature