Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...

Pesticide contamination has cascading effects from trophic transfer, moving from aquatic insects to terrestrial birds and ...

Macroinvertebrates, which include insects, crustaceans, molluscs and annelids visible to the naked eye, are central to the structure and function of rivers, lakes and wetlands. Occupying the benthic ...

This integrative study area allows students to investigate the relationships of organisms to their environment and those factors that affect their distribution and abundance. Both the practical and ...

Introduction to invertebrates of inland waters / James H. Thorp, Walter W. Dimmick, and Alan P. Covich -- An overview of inland aquatic habitats / James H. Thorp and Alan P. Covich -- Protozoa / ...

A squat brick building tucked between a forested ridgeline and a bend in White Oak Creek, though unassuming, is home to a scientific facility that grapples with one question: What's in the water? This ...

Hippo experts have discovered the very significant part hippos play ecologically in the African aquatic ecosystem. For ...