Natural riverine and aquatic ecosystems harbor diverse and dynamic microbial communities that are central to biogeochemical cycling, organic matter ...

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 ...

The ecology of an upstate New York stream rebounded to its natural state within three years after a small dam was removed, highlighting how quickly aquatic ecosystems can recover, according to a new ...

(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 ...

Hippo experts have discovered the very significant part hippos play ecologically in the African aquatic ecosystem. For ...