Mangrove forests are salt-tolerant intertidal vegetation in tropical and subtropical areas.
Mangrove ecosystems provide commercial products, valuable fisheries, and aquaculture …

Microbial communities are ubiquitous and carry an exceptionally broad metabolic capability.
Upon environmental perturbation, microbes are also amongst the first natural responsive …

With rapid urbanization and industrialization, rural rivers in China are facing deterioration in
water quality and ecosystem health. Microorganisms living in river sediments are involved in …

Insects used to treat organic waste streams and produce valuable protein products are
increasingly exposed to plastic contaminated source material assimilating plastic carbon …

Simple Summary Freshwater ecosystems face various threats, especially in recent decades,
that pose unprecedented challenges to human health, water supply, agriculture, forestry …

Current environmental monitoring efforts often focus on known, regulated contaminants
ignoring the potential effects of unmeasured compounds and/or environmental factors …

Interactions between microbiomes and metabolites play crucial roles in the environment, yet
how these interactions drive greenhouse gas emissions during ecosystem changes remains …

This study investigated the importance of blue carbon (carbon captured from the atmosphere
by algae, mangrove and seagrass leaves) as a component of particulate organic matter …

Coastal blue carbon ecosystems (BCE) support nearshore food webs and provide habitat for
many commercially important fish and crustacean species. However, the complex links …

Microbial life forms are among the most ubiquitous on Earth, yet many remain understudied
in Caribbean estuaries. We report on the prokaryote community composition of the Urabá …