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 …

The extensive development of surface and subsurface drainage systems to facilitate
agricultural production throughout North America has significantly altered the hydrology of …

Toxic cyanobacterial blooms represent a serious hazard to environmental and human
health, and the management and restoration of affected waterbodies can be challenging …

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into
present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and …

Periphytic diatoms, macrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates and fish were sampled with
standard methods in 185 streams in nine European countries to compare their response to …

Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western
prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European …

Fossil pigments often preserve in lake sediments long after the morphological remains of
most algae and bacteria are lost. In principle, analyses of sedimentary carotenoids …

The simple or classical ordination methods mostly used by palaeoecologists and
palaeolimnologists are principal component analysis (PCA) and correspondence analysis …

Among insects, the chitinous larval remains of the order Diptera (true flies) are most
abundant in lake sediments, and thus have proven to be especially useful in palaeoenviron …

We examined stressors that have led to profound ecological changes in the Lake Ontario
ecosystem and its fish community since 1970. The most notable changes have been …