News tagged with freshwater habitats

Researchers map fish species at risk from dams

Dams are believed to be one of the biggest threats to freshwater organisms worldwide: They disrupt normal patterns of water and sediment flow, impede migration, and alter the character of spawning and feeding grounds. A shortage ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why are there so few fish in the Earth's oceans?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Stony Brook University researcher has found that, contrary to popular belief, there are not plenty of fish in the sea.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

A new species of a tiny freshwater snail collected from a mountainous spring in Greece

A new minute freshwater snail species belonging to the genus Daphniola was found by a researcher from University of Athens (Canella Radea) in a spring covered by snow on Mt. Parnassos, central Greece. This study was publis ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers study threats to white sturgeon

University of Georgia researchers are working to understand why the nation's largest freshwater fish, the white sturgeon, is struggling in northern California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, an environmentally endangered ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Environmental Change Impacts Oklahoma Rivers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems

Researchers are exploring extreme conditions for life in a place not known for extremes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New study identifies economies that will suffer most as climate change imperils fisheries

With climate change threatening to destroy coral reefs, push salt water into freshwater habitats and produce more coastal storms, millions of struggling people in fishery-dependent nations of Africa, Asia and South America ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2