Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration of the Work of Rex Lowe was written by students and colleagues of Rex Lowe to acknowledge his esteemed career that included exceptional contributions to research and teaching. Papers in the book cover a variety of topics in algal ecology, focusing on benthic algal ecology in freshwater ecosystems. The studies provide an unusual combination of small-scale experiments and large-scale regional surveys that bridge both basic and applied ecology. Ecologists, limnologists, phycologists, and environmental scientists will find valuable contributions to the development and application of algal research.

Algology and algologists at Bowling Green, a short history.- Rexia erecta gen. et sp. nov. and Capsosira lowei sp. nov., two newly described cyanobacterial taxa from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (USA).- Large-scale regional variation in diatom-water chemistry relationships: rivers of the eastern United States.- Short-term effects of elevated velocity and sediment abrasion on benthic algal communities.- The effects of pH on a periphyton community in an acidic wetland, USA.- Food limitation affects algivory and grazer performance for New Zealand stream macroinvertebrates.- Benthic diatom communities in subalpine pools in New Zealand: relationships to environmental variables.- The relationships among disturbance, substratum size and periphyton community structure.- Relationships between environmental variables and benthic diatom assemblages in California Central Valley streams (USA).- Response of periphytic algae to gradients in nitrogen and phosphorus in streamside mesocosms.- Comparing effects of nutrients on algal biomass in streams in two regions with different disturbance regimes and with applications for developing nutrient criteria.- Differential heterotrophic utilization of organic compounds by diatoms and bacteria under light and dark conditions.- Using diatom assemblages to assess urban stream conditions.- Developing and testing diatom indicators for wetlands in the Casco Bay watershed, Maine, USA.- Diatom assemblages and their associations with environmental variables in Oregon Coast Range streams, USA.- Algal assemblages in multiple habitats of restored and extant wetlands.- Ecology and assessment of the benthic diatom communities of four Lake Erie estuaries using Lange-Bertalot tolerance values.