Tropical river deltas, and the social-ecological systems they sustain, are changing rapidly
due to anthropogenic activity and climatic change. Baseline data to inform sustainable …

Ecological preferences and distribution of Aulacoseira species in southeastern Brazilian
reservoirs with varying trophic states were studied. One hundred and fourteen plankton …

Guarapiranga Reservoir is the second most important public water supply in São Paulo,
Brazil and has been eutrophic for several decades. We inferred the major ecological shifts …

Eutrophication is one of the most widespread causes of biotic homogenization in freshwater
ecosystems. Biotic homogenization can be characterized as reductions in local diversity …

Interactions among multiple stressors, legacies of past perturbations, and the lack of
historical information make it difficult to determine the influence of individual anthropogenic …

Fresh water biodiversity is an increasing concern due to growing human impact. Herein, we
report a long-term survey (ca. 90 years) of sedimentary diatoms and the modern flora from …

Tota is an Andean lake located in the Altiplano of the Eastern Andes of Colombia where
socio-politically hierarchical societies of the Herrera and Muisca, flourished for millennia. To …

Algae have a long history of use in indicating ecological condition of streams and lakes.
Various algae-based indicators have been developed and used in stream and lake water …

Biodiversity changes in response to eutrophication, climate variability and species
invasions. These pressures have been shown to reduce community heterogeneity at various …

Reservoirs hold a detailed record of the changes in the input of sediments and nutrients over
decades to centuries. Paleolimnological multi-proxy analysis makes it possible to …