Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) is widely used as a proxy for phytoplankton biomass and lake trophic status. This exploratory study compared Random Forest, XGBoost, and a one-step Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network using 1012 station–date observations...
Ancient irrigation tanks are a defining component of Sri Lanka’s freshwater landscape, but their CO2 flux dynamics remain poorly characterized and are underrepresented in carbon databases. This study quantified hourly daytime CO2 fluxes and exa...
Regional background concentrations of 10 priority potential pollutants (Hg, Cd, Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, Co, Ni, Fe, and Mn) were established for the first time in the water and bottom sediments of 18 lakes in the Central Baraba Lowland. Comparison of natural...
Monopterus albus (Asian swamp eel) is a commercially important, air-breathing freshwater fish harvested throughout East and Southeast Asia. As a protogynous species, it begins life as a female, passes through a transitional phase, and ultimately beco...
Two-dimensional hydrologic–hydrodynamic models based on shallow water equations require careful specification of wet–dry treatment parameters. However, wet–dry tolerance (depth thresholds) and drying algorithms are often set to defa...
Estuaries along the Amazon coast are highly dynamic ecosystems whose biogeochemical functioning is driven by complex hydrodynamics, yet severely threatened by climate extremes and local urbanization. This study evaluated the spatiotemporal oscillatio...
This study investigated spatial and temporal variations in morphometric characteristics, physicochemical parameters, and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Ziz stream (Morocco), aiming to assess water quality and identify key environmental...
Waterborne protozoan pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium and Giardia, remain significant public health concerns in South Africa, disproportionately affecting children, immunocompromised individuals, and rural populations. This review synthesises...
This mandatory easement is crucial because unrestrained littoral structures typically jeopardize the water environment and tourism development. Regulating the seven maar lakes’ easements has long been regarded as fundamental; however, it remain...
Diplostomidae includes ecologically important digenean parasites with complex life cycles involving freshwater snails and vertebrate hosts. We present the first comprehensive synthesis of freshwater Diplostomidae in Argentina, based on 118 studies pu...
Site-specific ecotoxicological monitoring data on dairy final effluents in karst groundwater environments remain scarce. This preliminary site-specific case study combined physicochemical characterisation with a 24 h Daphnia magna immobilisation assa...
The phytoplankton community, which forms the base of aquatic food webs, plays a central role in ecosystem functioning and accounts for most primary production in aquatic systems, particularly in lentic environments. However, climate change and chemic...
We tested how depth-linked hydrostatic pressure, sediment temperature, and sediment texture, represented here by grain-size distribution, partition methane (CH4) between dissolved storage in sediment porewater and ebullitive release in a tropical mon...
Poor water quality monitoring and delayed responses to pollution remain major challenges in low-resource areas. Traditional methods of monitoring water and wastewater resources are ineffective because they take a long time to report contamination. Th...
Tadlac Lake, Gunao Lake, and Tikub Lake have embraced tourism development, but their foundations for initiation and establishment need further exploration and investigation. These small lakes are notable destinations, yet their tourism institutions h...
The Paraopeba River basin has been exposed to long-term anthropogenic pressures, including urbanization, wastewater discharge, land-use changes, and mining. These impacts were intensified by the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse in 2019, which release...
This article discusses the use of thermal and mineral waters in Poland in balneology, rehabilitation, and recreation. It highlights their importance for health, economy, and tourism, as well as the country’s significant hydrogeothermal potentia...
Climate warming can alter lake zooplankton through changes in thermal structure, oxygen availability, nutrient cycling, and phytoplankton dynamics, but decadal evidence from African lakes remains scarce. We compared zooplankton size structure and bio...
Chlorophyll-a is a widely used indicator for assessing the trophic status and water quality of aquatic ecosystems because of its close relationship with phytoplankton biomass. This study aimed to identify the physicochemical, biological, and temporal...
Tropical lake ecosystems are vulnerable to degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic pressure. These dual pressures lead to ecological change and alterations in aquatic parameters, including chlorophyll-a (Chl-a). Lake Poso is the third-lar...
Natural floods are unusual extreme events resulting from significant or prolonged rainfall, which sometimes turn into disasters. Trends indicate that these phenomena may become more frequent in the future. Therefore, many solutions are being implemen...
Blanket bogs are ombrotrophic peatlands where water is mainly supplied by precipitation. This study reports new algal records from blanket bogs in Türkiye, contributing to the knowledge of Türkiye’s freshwater algal flora. Algal sampl...
Eutrophication in tropical endorheic lakes often persists despite reductions in external nutrient inputs, indicating an important role of internal nutrient loading. However, integrated evidence linking thermal stratification, sediment characteristics...
This paper addresses the geomorphic response of an engineered Chicago beach to a >1.5 m rise in Lake Michigan’s base water level, from 2013 to 2020. Topographic monitoring data acquired since 2012 and subsurface geophysical data collected in...
Lakes represent valuable natural resources with significant potential for sustainable tourism development. Their tourism valorization requires a comprehensive assessment framework that integrates environmental, infrastructural, socio-economic, and go...
Biodiversity loss in aquatic ecosystems is accelerating, yet whether the effects of different biodiversity facets on biogeochemical processes are consistent or environmentally contingent remains poorly understood. Benthic invertebrate bioturbators dr...
Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Soják is a dominant freshwater wetland macrophyte with ecological, technological, and biocultural importance. This multidisciplinary review synthesizes its ecological functioning and environmental applica...
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Hypoxia and salinization increasingly co-occur in freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, yet their combined effects under fluctuating oxygen regimes remain poorly resolved. We experimentally quantified survival responses of four planktonic crustaceans...
Groundwater is vital to subsurface ecosystems and to maintaining water supplies for human and environmental needs. Heavy metal pollution of water bodies poses a significant threat to environmental health and human well-being. In this paper, a detaile...
Bacterial density, cell morphology, and carbon stock (C stock) were quantified in seven Brazilian reservoirs (Serra da Mesa, Manso, Itumbiara, Corumbá, Furnas, Mascarenhas de Moraes, and Luis Carlos Barreto) to evaluate spatial and seasonal pa...
In arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater recharge is a key process controlling the sustainability of subsurface water resources. This study aims to assess and map the groundwater recharge potential of the Oued Cherrat watershed (Morocco) using an i...
Urban freshwater ecosystems affected by eutrophication and recurrent algal blooms require monitoring approaches capable of representing optical complexity and spatial heterogeneity. This study evaluated an integrated workflow combining proximal in si...
The study of aquatic biota is of particular interest in view of the considerable anthropogenic impact on freshwater ecosystems in recent decades. Information on regional Trichoptera faunas remains fragmented and scattered in many areas. The present p...
Wind forcing is a primary driver of lake circulation, yet in shallow basins it is strongly constrained by morphometry, limited depth, and aquatic vegetation. We quantified the velocity and direction of horizontal wind-driven currents in Lake Wolszty&...
Aquatic and semi-aquatic plant assemblages, water quality, riparian habitat, and landscape conditions were assessed for 140 ponds located in the Ozarks region in Arkansas and Missouri in order to better describe their occurrences and distributional p...
Radioisotopic techniques provide powerful tools for reconstructing the history of lake sediments, offering critical insights into past environmental changes and human impacts. These techniques have contributed significantly to our understanding of pa...
Tropical wetlands are highly sensitive to climatic and anthropogenic disturbances, and their macrophyte communities provide valuable information about environmental conditions and habitat structure. This study evaluated the relationship between aquat...
Mineral waters represent unique limnological ecosystems with stable physicochemical conditions and specialised microbial communities adapted to extreme environments. Bulgarian mineral waters remain comparatively underexplored despite their considerab...
Most previous drought risk assessments have been done on monthly or annual time-scales, which do not directly correspond to crop conditions during wet and dry seasons. To address this limitation, this study introduces a novel framework for seasonal d...
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is among the world’s most invasive aquatic macrophytes, yet quantitative models of shoreline preference remain absent for Lake Victoria. This study developed a distance-based quantitative framework for spat...
Although South Africa has an extensive water infrastructure, it continues to face significant water scarcity due to its semi-arid climate, increasing urbanisation, ageing infrastructure, and pollution. These challenges, coupled with climate change an...
Freshwater lakes in Mediterranean regions are highly sensitive to climatic variability, particularly to droughts intensified by rising temperatures and increasing atmospheric evaporative demand. This study investigates drought variability and ecosyst...
This article analyzes the information provided by the sedimentary sequences of 29 lakes in central Mexico, 10 of which are currently paleolakes. During the Late Quaternary, the lakes of central Mexico experienced environmental changes driven by globa...
Mining activities can generate effluent contamination with potentially toxic elements such as iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn), posing environmental and technological challenges, particularly during mine closure and the decommissioning of mining structur...
Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly affected by eutrophication, sediment loading, and other anthropogenic pressures, creating a growing need for monitoring frameworks that are spatially extensive, temporally consistent, and methodologically robust...
Riverine systems in tropical deltaic environments are increasingly exposed to hydrological variability driven by climate change, sea level rise, and extreme precipitation. In Nigeria’s Niger Delta, recurrent flooding and environmental degradati...
Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly threatened by eutrophication and other anthropogenic and climate-driven pressures that undermine ecological functioning and biodiversity. This study evaluates the transferability of a GIS-based multi-criteria de...
Physicochemical and microbiological parameters are important indicators of drinking water quality. This study assessed the quality of groundwater used for drinking in four regions of Kosovo at 16 locations using an integrated assessment framework tha...
The Somyne lake-mire system is a unique wetland landscape complex in the Polissia region of Ukraine and forms part of the Rivne Nature Reserve. Its ecological importance is internationally recognised through its designation as the Ramsar wetland &ldq...
