freshwater and marine ecosystems, and are common features of many green plant communities, including vascular plant assemblages, long thought to be resistant to consumer control. Although we know ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ...

A new study reveals significant changes in the global freshwater oxygen cycle. Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren’t just beautiful features of the landscape, they’re vital to life on Earth.

Every year, on 3rd of April we celebrate World Aquatic animal Day. Among these, aquatic Insects are the most important.

Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by ...

A detailed look at the preferred food and shelter of muskrats provided through a new University of Alberta study could help ...

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter, both in the soil and in aquatic ecosystems. While most bacteria digest large molecules externally, allowing other community members to share and ...

Freshwater lakes and ponds ... This shift increased the risk of ecosystem regime shifts, where clear-water states dominated by submerged plants transitioned to turbid states dominated by ...

an invasive alien aquatic plant that is a growing threat to South Africa’s freshwater ecosystems. On Monday Julie Coetzee, the deputy director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes ...