Search results for aquatic ecology

Plants & Animals Oct 18, 2024

Q&A: Experts discuss the beaver, a controversial mammal

When an endangered species succeeds in repopulating its former habitat, the immediate reaction is one of joy. In the long term, however, its spread is often associated with conflict. One example is the beaver, a keystone ...

Ecology Oct 17, 2024

How the invasive spiny water flea spread across Canada, and what we can do about it

Across the tranquil waters of Canada's vast network of lakes and rivers, a quiet invader is on the move. The spiny water flea, Bythotrephes cederströmii, is a microscopic predator that is forever altering the ecological fabric ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 15, 2024

Targeting bacteria: Auxiliary metabolic genes expand understanding of phages and their reprogramming strategy

Viruses that infect bacteria—known as bacteriophages—could be used in a targeted manner to combat bacterial diseases. They also play an important ecological role in global biogeochemical cycles. Recent research by researchers ...

Ecology Oct 15, 2024

Airborne DNA tech transforms endangered wildlife monitoring

University of Queensland researchers have created new tools that could change how conservation experts monitor and protect some of Australia's most endangered species.

Environment Oct 7, 2024

Stalking a pollutant: Researchers comb river for secrets of Great Lakes microplastics

Ali Shakoor took a break from his morning field work to lay two small bluegill in his palm, displaying the catch his colleagues had netted from a riffling nook of the Huron River.

Ecology Oct 4, 2024

Low stream diatom biodiversity potentially decreases stream oxygen production in remote islands

Benthic diatoms are the most important and biodiverse primary producers in streams and comprise the basis for the food webs, fueling animals such as insects and stream fishes including trout.

Ecology Sep 26, 2024

Grazing zooplankton severely impacted by nanoplastic particles, researchers find

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are studying how nanoplastics affect aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. Their findings are surprising, and the researchers are the first to show that some species are being wiped ...

Plants & Animals Sep 24, 2024

Tree frog tadpoles have a unique way of not contaminating their water supply: Not pooping

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental stages. This finding by ...

Biochemistry Sep 24, 2024

Bio-based insecticidal ingredients have the potential to drive ecologically safer pesticides

Fresh hope is on the horizon for ecologically safer pesticide ingredients, thanks to the ingenuity of a research team at the University of Delaware.

Ecology Sep 16, 2024

Monitoring the health of lakes through the microbes that live in them

A lake is much more than a body of water where we bask on sunny summer days. It's also more than just a source of fresh water surrounded with nature and tranquility.

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