Submerged macrophytes are declining in many shallow lakes around the world, with more algae and free-floating plants taking their place. But an opposite trend is also emerging: water bodies with ...
Freshwater ecosystems in Canada and around the world are under siege. Lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands face many environmental threats, but one that is changing them most rapidly is the spread of ...
As their natural environments dwindle and disappear, freshwater species are going extinct faster than terrestrial and marine ones. In the last 300 years, 87% of wetlands have been lost globally, with ...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 6, 2025) A study in Ecology Letters finds “severe degradation of ecosystem functioning in the form of loss of organic matter consumption and dramatic shifts in primary ...
Authors Brooke E. Penaluna, Deanna H. Olson, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Matthew A. Weber, J. Ryan Bellmore, Steven M. Wondzell, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri L. Johnson, Gordon ...