De-icing road salts — even those marketed as environmentally friendly — may harm important freshwater plankton, a new ...

In a new study, researchers from Kumamoto University have found that DMSP, a sulfur-containing organic molecule, was produced by freshwater phytoplankton in colder days to help with untifreezing ...

Even plankton refuse to clean up water contaminated by human poop, reveals new research. The tiny, aquatic creatures are known to graze on bacteria in freshwater and saltwater. But they won't ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ... During cyanobacterial blooms, small-bodied zooplankton tend to dominate plankton communities, and past ...

Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!

Topics covered include stream ecosystem structure and function, aquatic macrophytes, plankton, freshwater fish, disturbance and land use impacts, and the implications of the Resource Management Act to ...