Land use is one of the most important factors affecting biodiversity. In addition to damage to
terrestrial environments, negative effects on aquatic environments have been reported in …

Anthropogenic eutrophication remains a critical global issue, significantly impacting surface
water quality. Numerous regions have implemented beneficial management practices to …

Eutrophication substantially alters biotic communities and has become a major threat to
biodiversity conservation in lake ecosystems. However, little is known about how long-term …

Our research aimed to evaluate, how urbanization affects lake ecosystems and Cladocera in
particular. For this purpose, we chose a small urban lake with a well-documented history …

Functional diversity (FD) as a biodiversity measure has an explicit role in ecosystem
functioning because the effects of environmental changes in ecosystems are determined by …

Decreases in biodiversity are so widespread that they are now considered a form of global
change in their own right. Given the grave nature of this issue, rapid advances in …

Aim Spatial and temporal variations in the composition of freshwater invertebrate
assemblages may be useful indicators of past climate change and help us to predict species …

Aim While it is now well accepted that human activities are having pronounced effects on
natural ecosystems, regional variation in the rate and magnitude of various human impacts …

Shallow lakes are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world and many
contemporary studies have demonstrated declines in biodiversity due to anthropogenic …

Extreme climatic events are considered one of the main consequences of climate change. In
the Pampas region, Argentina, an intensification of rainfall is expected during the periods of …