Background Every year, billions of migratory animals cross the planet in pursuit of increased
foraging opportunities, improved safety, and higher reproductive output. In so doing, these …

Ecosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well‐
being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the …

Plastic pollution is global environmental contaminant. Plastic particulates break down into
smaller fragments in the environment, and these small pieces are now commonly found to …

The presence and persistence of microplastics in the environment is increasingly
recognized, however, how they are distributed throughout environmental systems requires …

Seabird species world‐wide are integral to both marine and terrestrial environments,
connecting the two systems by transporting vast quantities of marine‐derived nutrients and …

One of the greatest challenges faced by limnologists, as well as most ecologists and
environmental scientists, is finding data with time scales appropriate to their questions …

We give examples of how waterbirds can be valuable indicators of changes in aquatic
systems. Eutrophication is a widespread problem that can increase the food supply for some …

The cryosphere is an important component of global organic contaminant cycles. Snow is an
efficient scavenger of atmospheric organic pollutants while a seasonal snowpack, sea ice …

Visible reflectance spectroscopy (VRS) has been used to reconstruct lake sediment
chlorophyll a concentrations. Despite good concordance between inferred and measured …

In some arctic areas, marine-derived nutrients (MDN) resulting from fish migrations fuel
freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, increasing primary production and biodiversity. Less …