Remotely sensed data can reinforce the abilities of water resources researchers and
decision makers to monitor waterbodies more effectively. Remote sensing techniques have …

The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community
assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions sha** …

Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

Essential fatty acids (EFA), which are primarily generated by phytoplankton, limit growth and
reproduction in diverse heterotrophs. The biochemical composition of phytoplankton is well …

The supply and demand of omega‐3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (ω‐3 HUFA) in natural
ecosystems may lead to resource limitation in a diverse array of animal taxa. Here, we …

Lipids provide the densest form of energy in marine ecosystems. They are also a solvent
and absorption carrier for organic contaminants and thus can be drivers of pollutant …

While many streams and rivers are dominated by terrestrial inputs of organic carbon, algae
are an important trophic base for stream food webs. However, the nutritional importance of …

Temporal variation characterizes many of Earth's ecosystems. Despite this, little is known
about how food webs respond to regular variation in time, such as occurs broadly with …

The growth potential of cyanobacteria is impressive. Under ideal circumstances,
cyanobacteria typically double once or twice per day. In 40 days, a single cyanobacterium …

Evidence now suggests that the roles of essential fatty acids as growth promoters and as
indices of health and nutrition are fundamentally similar in freshwater and marine …