Chapter 1 Introduction: Meromictic Lakes, Their Terminology and Geographic Distribution

Chapter 2 Physical Features of Meromictic Lakes: Stratification and Circulation

Chapter 3 Chemical Setting and Biogeochemical Reactions in Meromictic Lakes

Chapter 4 Biological and Ecological Features, Trophic Structure and Energy Flow in Meromictic Lakes

Chapter 5 Comparative Study of the Stability of Stratification and the Food Web Structure in the Meromictic Lakes Shira and Shunet (South Siberia, Russia)

Chapter 6 Rogoznica Lake, a Euxinic Marine Lake on the Adriatic Coast (Croatia) that Fluctuates Between Anoxic Holomictic and Meromictic Conditions

Chapter 8 Lake La Cruz, an Iron-Rich Karstic Meromictic Lake in Central Spain

Chapter 9 Meromictic Pit Lakes: Case Studies from Spain, Germany and Canada and General Aspects of Management and Modelling

Chapter 10 Tropical Meromictic Lakes: Specifics of Meromixis and Case Studies of Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Matano

Chapter 11 Mono Lake: Plankton Dynamics over Three Decades of Meromixis or Monomixis

Chapter 12 Mexican Meromictic Lakes: What We Know So Far

Chapter 13 Conclusion: Ecology of Meromictic Lakes