Future of freshwater ecosystems in a 1.5 C warmer world

SJ Capon, B Stewart-Koster, SE Bunn - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Freshwater ecosystems are highly vulnerable to global warming because 1) their chief
drivers, water quality and flow regimes, are highly sensitive to atmospheric warming, and 2) …

Warming undermines emergence success in a threatened alpine stonefly: A multi‐trait perspective on vulnerability to climate change

AA Shah, S Hotaling, AB Lapsansky… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Vulnerability to warming is often assessed using short‐term metrics such as the critical
thermal maximum (CTMAX), which represents an organism's ability to survive extreme heat …

Tropical and temperate differences in the trophic structure and aquatic prey use of riparian predators

LN Nash, P Kratina, FC Recalde, JI Jones… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of aquatic resource‐inputs on terrestrial communities is poorly understood,
particularly in the tropics. We used stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen to trace …

Warming and top predator loss drive direct and indirect effects on multiple trophic groups within and across ecosystems

PAP Antiqueira, OL Petchey, F Rezende… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interspecific interactions within and between adjacent ecosystems strongly depend on
the changes in their abiotic and biotic components. However, little is known about how …

Multigenerational resilience of the marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis to high temperature after additive exposure to high salinity and nanoplastics

DS Yoon, E Byeon, AEDH Sayed, HG Park, JS Lee… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
To study multigenerational resilience to high temperature (HT) conditions, we exposed
Brachionus plicatilis marine rotifers to HT, high salinity (HS), and nanoplastics (NPs), and …

Effects of Interspecific Interactions on Aquatic Macrophyte Litter Decomposition and Its Influencing Factors

S Bao, L Jin, Q Wu, S Xie, J Xu, S Peng, C Liu… - ACS ES&T …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aquatic macrophyte litter decomposition (AMD) is essential for material cycling and energy
flow in freshwater ecosystems. This decomposition process encompasses several stages …

Microplastics alter the leaf litter breakdown rates and the decomposer community in subtropical lentic microhabitats

WG Borges, ER Cararo, R de Brito, AN Pazini… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics, pervasive pollutants in aquatic environments, have been primarily studied for
their impact on marine ecosystems. However, their effects on freshwater systems …

Effects of warming on the structure of aquatic communities in tropical bromeliad microecosystems

M Progênio, PAP Antiqueira, FR Oliveira… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwaters are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to climate warming, with projected
temperature increases over the coming decades leading to significant losses of aquatic …

Hypothesised life cycle adaptation of stonefly (Plecoptera) in response to increased water temperatures

M Yoshimura - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Water temperature is the most important and critical factor for freshwater invertebrates and it
fluctuates with an increase in air temperature. In this study, the effect of water temperature on …

Impacts of warming on reciprocal subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

EJ O'Gorman, I Chemshirova… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cross-ecosystem subsidies are important as their recipients often rely on them to
supplement in situ resource availability. Global warming has the potential to alter the quality …