Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

Lakes are complex ecosystems composed of distinct habitats coupled by biological, physical
and chemical processes. While the ecological and evolutionary characteristics of aquatic …

While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas
and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the" matrix"—are equally …

1. Landscape ecology deals with the influence of spatial pattern on ecological processes. It
considers the ecological consequences of where things are located in space, where they …

The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining
some" minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent …

In highly urbanized areas, wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent can represent a
significant component of freshwater ecosystems. As it is impossible for the composition of …

Human society has used freshwater from rivers, lakes, groundwater, and wetlands for many
different urban, agricultural, and industrial activities, but in doing so has overlooked its value …

Estuaries and coastal wetlands are critical transition zones (CTZs) that link land, freshwater
habitats, and the sea. CTZs provide essential ecological functions, including decomposition …

Sediment fingerprinting is a technique that is increasingly being used to improve the
understanding of sediment dynamics within river basins. At present, one of the main …

Articles ductivity and heterotrophic bacterial productivity rather than biomass because we
were interested in energy flow in lake food webs. However, we found measurements of …