Small waterbodies, including ponds and small lakes, low-order streams, ditches and
springs, are the most numerous freshwater environments globally, are critical for freshwater …

Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

Understanding and managing the susceptibility of lakes to anthropogenic eutrophication has
been a primary goal of limnological research for decades. To achieve United Nations' …

Ponds are often identified by their small size and shallow depths, but the lack of a universal
evidence-based definition hampers science and weakens legal protection. Here, we …

Shallow lakes can shift between stable states as a result of anthropogenic or natural drivers.
Four common stable states differ in dominant groups of primary producers: submerged …

Despite its well-established negative impacts on society and biodiversity, eutrophication
continues to be one of the most pervasive anthropogenic influences along the freshwater to …

In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased in
frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that …

Complex dynamical systems, ranging from ecosystems to financial markets and the climate,
can have tip** points at which a sudden shift to a contrasting dynamical regime may …

Resilience implies stability in the face of change, but to define it as such leaves open many
questions: What is stable? Which sort of change? Over what span of time? Answers to these …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …