Rivers are increasingly recognized as providing nutritional subsidies (i.e., energy and nutrients) to adjacent terrestrial food webs via depredation of aquatic organisms (e.g., emergent aquatic ...

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Jonathan J. Cole, Christopher T. Solomon, Terrestrial support of zebra mussels and the Hudson River food web, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 57, No. 6 (2012), pp. 1802-1815 ...

Millbrook, NY – A distant relative of shrimp, zooplankton are an important food source for fish and other aquatic animals. Long characterized as algae feeders, a new study published this week in ...

‘Forever chemicals’ in wetlands In addition to directly examining the effects of PFAS on amphibians, we also conducted field-based research examining PFAS distribution and movement in an aquatic food ...

The new study investigated the microbial food web, a term that refers to the combined trophic interactions among all microorganisms in aquatic environments, including viruses, bacteria ...

Therefore, aquatic consumer reliance on terrestrial energy is altered across an environmental gradient -- consumer allochthony decreases from drown dystrophic lakes towards eutrophic lakes.